Mike Muriano, a 20-year veteran of the NFL Network, has joined Amazon as Executive Producer, Live Sports at Prime Video as the streaming powerhouse continues to ramp up its sports efforts.About a year from now, Amazon will begin a significant new chapter, taking over exclusive rights to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football in a precedent-setting digital deal.
For the first time since Fox wrested NFL rights away from CBS in the 1990s, a new broadcaster will be ramping up an operation to beam games into homes.
In recent years, Amazon has streamed Thursday NFL games, but as simulcasts produced by network partners. Now, it will handle the nuts and bolts of engineering and also hire new on-air personalities as it embarks on the 11-year deal.Muriano
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