FanDuel Sports Network announces partnership with Amazon Prime Video

[b4pjoe]

1. Your Benefits of Free Shipping, is NOT FREE, its part of the Amazon SUB.
2. Amazon is not offering the service, they are simply a place to get it. They pass on what they get from MLB.TV I would imagine, I don't believe they have anything to do with Producing the games.

Yes that is how things work in the real world. You pay money to get something. Your statement "that adds another $9-15 to the cost of that $20 a month cost" is not true because you get more for what you are paying for Amazon Prime than just the opportunity to subscribe to your local Fanduel RSN…unless you are only getting Prime so you can get that local RSN from Amazon.

 

[b4pjoe]

This is how I understood it to be as well, you could get it either way.

Fan Dual is the Provider, Amazon just is a Pass thru

Yes that is correct.

 

[comfortably_numb]

OK, so just to be clear now, you do not have to have Amazon Prime in order to stream your local MLB team on FanDuel correct? It's $20 a month and no Prime required, correct?

 

[b4pjoe]

OK, so just to be clear now, you do not have to have Amazon Prime in order to stream your local MLB team on FanDuel correct? It's $20 a month and no Prime required, correct?

It depends on if Fanduel offers it DTC directly to customers in each area. As I said I am in the St. Louis area and they do offer a DTC for Fanduel in the St. Louis area so Amazon not needed. So if you are in the St. Louis area you can get it to follow the Cardinals without Amazon. If you are not in the St. Louis area you cannot get the Cardinals either direct from Fanduel or via Amazon.

FanDuel Sports Network

fanduelsportsnetwork.com

 

[comfortably_numb]

If you are not in the St. Louis area you cannot get the Cardinals either direct from Fanduel or via Amazon.

I'm in KC so I'll just use my free T-Mobile MLB.tv subscription as I always do

 

[Bruce]

It depends on if Fanduel offers it DTC directly to customers in each area. As I said I am in the St. Louis area and they do offer a DTC for Fanduel in the St. Louis area so Amazon not needed. So if you are in the St. Louis area you can get it to follow the Cardinals without Amazon. If you are not in the St. Louis area you cannot get the Cardinals either direct from Fanduel or via Amazon.

I checked both Metro Detroit ( where we moved from in 2020) and here in Florida, they are both offered directly from FanDuel.

Here in Florida, there are multiple options, you can either have Tampa Bay MLB/NHL or Miami MLB/NBA and Orlando NBA (magic) for the $20.

Or everything ( all 5 teams) for $30 a month.

Luckily, I do not care for any of them.

 

[savarese04]

This pricing is so out of hand. How can I get 29 other teams for the price of 1 local team. Make it make sense.

I feel like if MLB just said, okay MLBTV is now $200 instead of $150 but it includes ZERO blackouts and every single game, nobody would blink twice and they would probably sell way more subs than doing it this way.

 

[savarese04]

OK, so just to be clear now, you do not have to have Amazon Prime in order to stream your local MLB team on FanDuel correct? It's $20 a month and no Prime required, correct?

I feel like Amazon's involvement is actually as the content distribution network/backend for FanDuel DTC. So while FanDuel has a front-end app that doesn't require Amazon login/service, all this lives on Amazon's servers, which is why Amazon is able to provide it via prime channels.

That is to say, and I know this is semantics (and we are all here because we love the technical details), but FanDuel DTC is not providing the feed to Amazon, rather Amazon is producing and providing the feed to FanDuel DTC.