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Like every other sports league, the NFL is managing the transition from traditional television to streaming the best it can. It hit a high watermark in that respect last weekend. The Chicago Bears' comeback win over the Green Bay Packers in the NFL wild-card round averaged 31.
Amazon’s Prime Video has the Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers playoff game. Here’s how you can watch.
The Chicago Bears will meet the Green Bay Packers for the third time in the playoffs, with the game airing on Prime Video. Here’s how to watch.
Amazon’s Prime Video set a new NFL streaming record, drawing 31.61 million viewers last Saturday night to a wild card playoff game between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. Helped by the Bears’ thrilling comeback,
Prime Video’s telecast of the Chicago Bears’ comeback victory over the Green Bay Packers averaged 31.61 million viewers, the largest audience to date for a streaming-exclusive NFL game. The previous record — which stood for all of 16 days — was 27.52 million for Netflix’s Christmas telecast of a game between the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings.
The NFL chose to lean into its burgeoning relationship with Prime Video’s owner, Amazon, granting the league’s longest-running rivalry to its newest weekly partner.
Al Michaels will return to Amazon Prime Video for another season of NFL coverage in 2026. The 81-year-old sports broadcasting legend has been the play-by-play voice of “Thursday Night Football” since the streaming service acquired the package in 2022.