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Amazon to Stream NFL Playoff Game

By Tom Dotan
· · Source: The Wall Street Journal

Amazon is getting into the NFL playoffs. The league announced to team owners today that it had struck a deal to put one of its newly created wildcard games on Amazon’s streaming service, according to The Wall Street Journal. Amazon has been streaming regular season Thursday night games for the past  few years. It’s unclear how big that those games have been for the site; clearly they must be...

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