Seattle Kraken will move games to over-air broadcaster, with streaming for Alaskans on Amazon's Prime Video

In a landmark move, the Kraken announced Thursday they've ended their ROOT Sports partnership in favor of showing games for free over the air next season with Tegna-owned stations locally as well as through Amazon Prime streaming across three states. KING 5 becomes the team's official television partner in the multi-year deal and will simulcast more than 15 of the 70-plus non-nationally televised Kraken games to be aired on its KONG sister station in Seattle, as well as Tegna-owned affiliates in Spokane and Portland, Ore. Tegna will work with additional broadcast companies in Washington, Oregon and Alaska to further distribute games throughout those three states, which will already be covered by the streaming deal that makes the broadcasts available to all Amazon Prime members. “We are going to provide more opportunities for folks to access our game and our team,” Kraken president Victor de Bonis said in an interview, adding the team will produce its own broadcasts while Tegna distributes them.