Sports on Amazon Prime Video

Amazon first acquired sports rights in April 2017, when they signed a $50 million deal for the non-exclusive rights to stream portions of the NFL's Thursday Night Football games during the 2017 NFL season to Prime subscribers, replacing a previous deal with Twitter.^[1] Since then Amazon has acquired exclusive sports rights in 10 countries, including Australia, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. Premier rights include the Copa do Brasil in Brazil, Ligue 1 and the French Open in France, the UEFA Champions League in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, the Premier League in the United Kingdom, the NHL's Monday Night Hockey in Canada, and Thursday Night Football in the United States.

In December 2022, Amazon launched Sports Talk in the United States; a free ad-supported streaming television sports talk channel produced in partnership with Embassy Row.^[2] The channel was shut down in October 2023.^[3]

Channels

Prime Video also offers several "channels" for live sports. These channels are separate, non Amazon subscription services, which add a cost on top of Amazon Prime, but, when purchased, can be accessed through Amazon Prime.

In the United States the channels include, MLB.TV (which includes MLB Network),^[4][5] NBA League Pass (which includes NBA TV),^[6][7] Paramount+ (which includes select sporting events from CBS Sports),^[8] PGA Tour Live,^[9] Motortrend,^[10] MOTV,^[11] FuelTV,^[12] Max (which includes all sporting events from TNT Sports), Apple TV+ and The Surf Network.^[13]

In the United Kingdom the channels include, Premier Sports,^[14] Discovery+ Sport,^[15] and La Liga TV.^[16]

In France the channels include, Golf Channel^[17] and Le Pass Ligue 1.^[18]

In Brazil the channels include NBA, Canais Globo (which includes SporTV),^[19] Premiere (Brasileirão),^[20] Combate,^{[citation needed]} Paramount+ (Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana events)^[21] and CazéTV.^[22]

Current rights

Australia

• Men's and women's International Cricket Council tournaments (2024–2027)^[23]

Austria

• Exclusive rights to Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament (2024–2027)^[24]

Brazil

• Copa do Brasil (2022–2026)^[25][26]
  • Sub-licensed from Grupo Globo
  • Circa 50 matches per season
  • Exclusive matches from 1st round until quarter-finals
  • Semi-finals and final shown, but also shared with SporTV and TV Globo
• National Basketball Association^[27]
  • 87 regular season games
  • Up to 24 postseason games
  • Broadcasts NBA Finals only in Bandeirantes^[28]
• CazéTV content Simulcasts^[29]

Canada

• ONE Championship^[30]
  • ONE on Prime Video mixed martial arts and muay Thai events (2022–present)
• National Hockey League (2024–2026)
  • Prime Monday Night Hockey, sub-licensed from Rogers^[31]
  • NHL Coast To Coast, weekly whiparound studio show on Thursday nights^[32]
• Professional Women's Hockey League (2024–present)^[33]
  • All games on Tuesday nights
  • One semifinal

France

• Ligue 1 (2021–24)^[34]
  • 8 matches per week
  • 10 top pick matches and 66 second and third pick matches per season
  • Sunday highlight show
• French Open (2021–27)^[35]
  • 11 "night sessions" matches
  • All Court Simonne-Mathieu matches

Germany

• UEFA Champions League (2021–2027)^[36]
  • Tuesday evening matches up to the semifinals
• Exclusive rights to Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament (2024–2027)^[24]

India

• New Zealand Cricket^[37]

Italy

• UEFA Champions League (2021-2027)^[38]
  • 18 Wednesday evening matches up to the semifinals

Japan

• Prime Video Presents Live Boxing^[39]
• Samurai Japan Baseball^[40]
  • Rights Shared with Japan Consortium
• Copa America (2024)^[41]
  • 14 Matches live, rest of matches VOD

Mexico

• National Basketball Association^[42]
  • 50 games per year

Sweden and Denmark

• Premier League (2024–2028)^[43]
  • 38 matches per season

United Kingdom

• Premier League^[44]
  • 20 matches (2019–2025)
• UEFA Champions League (2024–2027)^[45]
  • One match a week, 20 matches a season

United States

• National Football League^[46]
  • Thursday Night Football (2017–present)
  • Black Friday Football (2023–present)
  • 1 NFL Wild Card round game (2021–2022, 2025–present)
  • 1 preseason game (2022–present)
• Major League Baseball^[47]
  • Select New York Yankees games in home market only (2021–present)
• National Women's Soccer League (2024–present)^[48]
  • 27 Friday night matches
  • 1 quarterfinal per season
• National Hockey League
  • All non-nationally televised Seattle Kraken games in home market only (2024–present)^[49]
• Women's National Basketball Association^[50]
  • 30 regular season Seattle Storm games in Washington state only.
• ONE Championship^[30]
  • ONE on Prime Video mixed martial arts and muay Thai events (2022–present)
• Overtime Elite^[51]
  • 20 games
• NASCAR Cup Series (2025–2031)^[52]
  • 5 races
  • Practice and qualifying sessions for the first half of the season
• Premier Boxing Champions (2024–present)^[53]
  • Distribute pay-per-view events (Amazon Prime subscription not required)
  • Exclusively air PBC Championship Boxing events

Global

• Women's National Basketball Association (2021–2037)^[54][55][56]
  • 20 exclusive national regular season games (30 beginning in 2026)
  • WNBA Commissioner's Cup final
  • First round of WNBA playoffs (begins 2026)
  • 7 WNBA Semifinals (begins 2026)
  • 3 WNBA Finals (begins 2026)
• National Basketball Association (2025–2037, Canada coverage begins in 2026)^[57]
  • 66 regular season games (86 in Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland)
  • NBA Cup knockout rounds (including semifinals and finals)
  • All NBA Play-In Tournament games
  • Select first and second-round NBA playoffs games.
  • 6 NBA Conference Finals (11 in Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland)
  • (6 NBA Finals in Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland)
  • Half of all NBA Summer League games
• NBA G League (2025–2037)^[57]
  • select regular season and postseason games
• Professional Pickleball Association^[58]
  • 4 live events per year
  • PPA World Championship Series

Former rights

• Australian Swimming Championships (Global rights) (2021–2022)^[59]
• Association of Volleyball Professionals (Global rights) (2018–2020)^[60]
• 2023 World Baseball Classic (Japan)^[61]
• Seattle Sounders FC (United States) (2020–2022)^[62]
• US Open (United Kingdom) (2018–2022)^[63]
• Next Generation ATP Finals (United Kingdom) (2018–2023)^[64]
• ATP World Tour (United Kingdom)^[65][66]
  • Third party pay TV provider for Queens Club and Eastbourne tournament (2018–2023)
  • All Masters 1000 events (2019–2023)
  • Twelve 500 and 250 series tournaments (2019–2023)
  • Third party pay TV provider for the ATP finals (2019–2023)
• WTA Tour (United Kingdom)^[67]
  • 49 tournaments (2020–2023)

Sports Talk

Sports Talk

Country	United States
Network	Sports on Amazon Prime Video
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	720p (HD, variable due to user bandwidth)
Ownership
Owner	Amazon
Parent	Amazon Prime Video Embassy Row
History
Launched	December 1, 2022 (2022-12-01)
Closed	September 31, 2023 (2023-09-31)

Sports Talk was a free ad-supported streaming television sports talk channel produced in partnership with Embassy Row offered on Amazon Prime and Amazon Freevee.^[68] Launched in December 2022, live programming was aired from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. eastern time each weekday. Shows on the channel included Bonjour Sports Talk, The Cari Champion Show, Game Breakers, From the Desk Of Master T, The Power Hour, The Greatest Hour of All Time, and The Backup Plan. Notable on-air talent included Ben Lyons, Cari Champion and Rennae Stubbs.^[2] The channel shutdown in October 2023.^[3]

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