Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmazon — in another signal that it has big sports ambitions for Prime Video — grabbed local-market streaming rights for games played one of its hometown teams: Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders FC.Under the three-year deal with the soccer team, Prime Video will become the sole digital streaming destination for all non-nationally televised Sounders FC matches throughout the club’s home broadcast territory in Washington State.
The deal kicks off with the club’s Aug. 26 match against the L.A. Galaxy.In 2018, YouTube TV had inked a similar deal with the Sounders that rolled off at the end of 2019.
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