Blues, Prime Video attain settlement to stream locally-televised video games

The St. Louis Blues and the National Hockey League (NHL) as we speak introduced a multi-year settlement with Prime Video to function the unique native market streaming supplier for the staff starting with the 2026-27 season.

With the addition of the Blues, Prime Video now provides native protection for greater than 10 NHL groups.

“Our desire to maximize accessibility and ensure long-term consistency for where our fans will find our first team-owned streaming service led us to Prime Video and we are excited to launch in the coming weeks,” stated Steve Chapman, Blues Executive Vice President, Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer. “Prime Video has a proven track record as a first-stop destination for sports broadcasts and their deep presence across the NHL will be a major asset for our broadcasts and our fans.”

The Blues, in partnership with the NHL and 5 different member golf equipment, reached an settlement with Prime Video to announce the streaming availability for his or her particular person regional broadcast territories as we speak. Joining the Blues in as we speak’s announcement are the Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Minnesota Wild, Anaheim Ducks and Dallas Stars.

For followers inside the Blues’ regional broadcast territory, protection of the staff’s video games shall be supplied as a subscription for all Amazon prospects. The Blues will announce the launch date for these subscriptions within the coming weeks on the value of $19.99 per 30 days or $99.99 yearly.

The Blues beforehand introduced a collaboration with the NHL on sport manufacturing that leverages the NHL’s centralized manufacturing group for studio and present programming, premium sport manufacturing, superior graphics and replay capabilities, and technical and engineering help. While bringing skilled manufacturing employees in-house to straight produce all regionally televised video games from St. Louis with oversight from the NHL, the Blues present inside groups are managing gross sales, advertising and marketing, and distribution of the tv broadcasts throughout the staff’s five-state territory.

With their common season starting on Oct. 2 at Dallas, the Blues proceed to maneuver nearer to finalizing cable, satellite tv for pc, and over-the-air broadcast agreements that shall be introduced within the coming weeks, making certain that Blues followers all through the staff’s regional territory will have the ability to watch the staff’s video games in a similar way as that they had prior to now. Complete particulars on availability, channel places, the title of the brand new team-owned and operated multimedia platform, and extra key broadcast info shall be introduced quickly as properly.

Featuring enhanced graphics packages and the high-quality manufacturing worth Blues followers have come to count on, the partnership with the NHL is presently slated to supply 73 native tv video games this season – each common season sport apart from the 11 nationally televised by NHL unique broadcast companions ABC, ESPN, ESPN+/Hulu, and TNT. Fans that don’t dwell within the Blues native broadcast territory can proceed to observe Blues video games dwell by way of NHL Center Ice on DirecTV and NHL Power Play on ESPN+. 

For info on promoting alternatives inside the Blues’ broadcasting platform for the 2026-27 season, events ought to contact Bryan Lucas, St. Louis Blues Vice President of Corporate Partnerships, at [email protected] or depart a voicemail at 314-622-5463.