How Amazon Prime Video thinks about sports
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Episode 552 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jared Stacy, the Vice President of Global Live Sports Production for Prime Video. Prime Video’s properties include the NFL, NASCAR, NBA and WNBA, and NWSL, among others. In this podcast, Stacy explains his role at Prime Video and what he looks at when he his hiring on-air talent; Prime Video's plans for its NBA coverage; inside the hirings of Blake Griffin, Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki; setting Prime Video up for great play-by-play announcers with Ian Eagle, Kevin Harlan, Michael Grady, and Eric Collins; Amazon's WNBA games in 2026; acquiring media rights for The Masters; whether Al Michaels will be back next year on Thursday Night Football; working in the production truck with Vin Scully’s during Scully's final season broadcasting; how Prime Video is using A.I. on its broadcasts and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:24.1 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm your host Richard Deich. |
| 0:26.9 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:28.8 | One guest on this episode. |
| 0:37.3 | But if you are a sports consumer and viewer, this is someone who has had significant impact already on how you view some major sports |
| 0:39.9 | and probably, given as things are going, will have more impact as we head towards the future. |
| 0:46.7 | Jared Stacey is the vice president of global live sports production for Prime Video. |
| 0:51.4 | He is a big part of Prime Video's sports strategy and sports production. That, of course, |
| 0:57.5 | includes properties such as the NFL, NBA, WMBA, NASCAR. We will certainly get into the NBA |
| 1:05.0 | as that season is coming fast and furious. And this will be Amazon's initial go. It is a very, very big deal for them. |
| 1:13.4 | It is obviously a very, very big deal for the NBA. And with that, I'm pleased to be joined by Jared |
| 1:18.0 | Stacey. Welcome to the sports media podcast. Thanks for having me. excited to be here. |
| 1:22.6 | You are not someone who does a lot of podcasts. I mean, you have a very big job in the industry, |
| 1:27.2 | but unlike some |
| 1:28.4 | other Amazon and ESPN types, like, I don't see you on the podcast circuit. I like to, I like to |
| 1:35.1 | operate in the background. Shadows. Yes. Like Kaiser Sose. Okay. Yeah, we hire people to do the talking. |
| 1:42.3 | All right. All right. So for my audience, because again, I just drop, you know, one of these like 65 word titles, |
| 1:48.1 | vice president of global live sports production. |
| 1:51.0 | Can you just give a layperson explanation for people listening? |
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