{"id":832689,"date":"2026-07-29T02:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832689\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:10:15","slug":"prime-video-lands-wednesday-nhl-package-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832689\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video lands Wednesday NHL package in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"NHL logo\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/KGNURH2ZVFCNTICPM4TVII7UBM.ashx.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Prime Video is \u201ctaking over Wednesday night NHL broadcasts in Canada\u201d from Rogers Communications. NHL <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Prime Video is \u201ctaking over Wednesday night NHL broadcasts in Canada\u201d from Rogers Communications after the two companies signed a 12-year deal for national rights that will \u201csee the Amazon-owned streaming service broadcast games in both English and French for the first time.\u201d The agreement, which starts this season, includes \u201cat least 26 national regular-season games as well as two first-round and one second-round Stanley Cup playoff series each spring.\u201d Prime had<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/09\/30\/nhl-preview-storylines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/09\/30\/nhl-preview-storylines\/\"> Monday night broadcasts<\/a> for the last two seasons, but those will be returning to Sportsnet. The new deal makes Prime the first national streaming-only service in Canada to carry NHL games in French. The company did not provide details about its broadcast plans for those games. Rogers and the NHL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/01\/rogers-aims-to-dominate-canadian-sports-scene-with-nhl-media-rights-extension\/?issueId=XWYBCNIW7BGTDEUNZ6RLWNJQOQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/01\/rogers-aims-to-dominate-canadian-sports-scene-with-nhl-media-rights-extension\/?issueId=XWYBCNIW7BGTDEUNZ6RLWNJQOQ\">signed a new 12-year deal in April 2025<\/a> that was valued at $11B. Last month, Rogers and CBC announced it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/06\/16\/cbc-no-longer-carrying-nhl-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/06\/16\/cbc-no-longer-carrying-nhl-games\/\">no longer distribute its Saturday night games on CBC<\/a>, with those games available on Sportsnet (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-amazon-prime-rogers-wednesday-night-nhl-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-amazon-prime-rogers-wednesday-night-nhl-games\/\">GLOBE &amp; MAIL, 7\/27<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Video is \u201ctaking over Wednesday night NHL broadcasts in Canada\u201d from Rogers Communications. NHL Prime Video is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,75,448,82,5131],"class_list":["post-832689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}