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After Snaring ‘Thursday Night Football,’ Amazon Needs to Get Fans to Watch

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor There will be lots of teams worth following this NFL season, be they the Tampa Bay Buccaneers or the returning Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams.

Even so, many people in the media business have their eyes on a very distinctive player: Amazon Prime Video. The streamer, which once shared “Thursday Night Football” games with Fox, now has exclusive rights to that action and must convince some pigskin Luddites to plug into broadband.

Streaming “Thursday Night Football,” after all, will require a different kind of remote — and familiarity with a home screen, not a cable box. “It is going to be a behavioral shift for people,” acknowledges Jay Marine, VP of Prime Video and its global head of sports. “Our job is to make sure they are able to find ‘Thursday Night Football’ at its new home and make it as easy as possible to get into the Prime Video app and start streaming.” Amazon has spent the past few weeks trying to whet fans’ appetites for the property.

Have you seen an Amazon delivery van in your neighborhood? Many of them are wrapped in promotional displays touting “TNF” and the company’s new “Lord of the Rings” series.

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