Thursday Night Football Is on Amazon and You Can Watch It!
by EG
Are you ready to watch some football? This year, you can watch NFL Thursday Night Football on Amazon. Read on to find out how. And don't forget to check out our NFL schedule guide to stay on top of which game you want to watch next.
Via CNBC.
Amazon's first NFL live-stream will take place Thursday night at 8:25 PM ET/5:25 PM PT. The Green Bay Packers are hosting the Chicago Bears in an NFC North match-up.
The game is the first of the 10 NFL matches Amazon will be streaming this year as part of a $50 million deal.
But Amazon's NFL stream isn't available to everyone — you must be an Amazon Prime member to watch it.
Amazon Prime is a paid membership program that gives access to free two-day shipping, a bunch of online video and songs, as well as online storage space. It costs $99 a year or $10.99 a month. If you just want access to Amazon's video streaming service, it would cost $8.99 a month.
You can use this link to sign up for a free trial.
Once you're a Prime member, you'll be able to watch the game on any kind of device, including your own laptop, smartphone, or tablet. It's available on Amazon.com or through Amazon's Prime Video app.
Tonight's game marks Amazon's first step into sports live-streaming and shows the e-commerce giant's growing video ambitions.
Amazon is expected to invest $4.5 billion in its video streaming business this year, which is slightly below Netflix's $6 billion content budget, according to JP Morgan. Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky said last year that the company would "nearly double" its investment in video, too.
Get the rest of the story at CNBC.
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