Prime Video is “taking over Wednesday night NHL broadcasts in Canada” from Rogers Communications. NHL
Prime Video is “taking over Wednesday night NHL broadcasts in Canada” from Rogers Communications after the two companies signed a 12-year deal for national rights that will “see the Amazon-owned streaming service broadcast games in both English and French for the first time.” The agreement, which starts with the new season beginning at the end of September, includes “at least 26 national regular-season games as well as two first-round and one second-round Stanley Cup playoff series each spring.” Prime took over Monday night broadcasts from Rogers two years ago in what was then “described by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman as an experiment in streaming-only viewing.” The new deal makes Prime the first national streaming-only service in Canada to carry NHL games in French. The company did not provide any details about its broadcast plans for those games. Rogers and the NHL signed a new 12-year deal in April 2025 that was valued at $11B. Last month, Rogers announced it would no longer distribute its Saturday night games on CBC, leaving Canadians with “no way of watching English-language NHL games without paying for a streaming service” (GLOBE & MAIL, 7/27).