I wonder what they mean by "One signature documentary a year". It seems like WWE just churns out documentaries monthly right now. Unless they only mean stuff like "The Last Ride" and not "365" or "WWE Chronicle"
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Peacock becomes the exclusive home for the WWE Network (USA Only)
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Glad to see they're cutting Team Members wages at their theme park to purchase a company that took money from Saudi Arabia and having connection with the insurrection back 3 weeks ago.
Last I checked that was certainly the case. IIRC, while Vince owns less than 50% of the stock, he has something like 80% of the voting power due to his shares giving him more of it than regular ones. Only the McMahon family can hold the more valuable shares.
I don't watch it myself, but most of what I hear sounds pretty bad. But tbh, I think most modern wrestling is pretty terrible and have gone so off the plot to what wrestling is. People go wild over AEW, and tbh, I think it's largely awful, even shocking so at times. So I am not in a position where I feel like I can judge it one way or another as I clearly do not align with modern fans. WWE ratings keep going down, but I dunno, maybe those that still watch it enjoy whatever they are doing.
It launched at Wrestlemania 30, and the upcoming Wrestlemania in April is 35 (they dropped numbering after 30), so yeah, as of March it will be just under 5.
I stand corrected then.
So then the Network has been around almost 7 years then? Now it's my turn to say damn lol
All that money for a garbage company run by a garbage person who treats their talent like garbage. Both Fox and NBC keeps duping themselves into believing that people give a shit about WWE anymore.
I mean, smackdown is currently on terrestrial TV network that reached 200 million Americans.
The only event they have that has mainstream reach in 2021 is Mania and it's a 6 hour bloatfest
I kept my sub for a completely computer illiterate older family member but I guess it's nice to know I can watch The Office again.
Is that all what Peacock's good for? lmao.
Is that all what Peacock's good for? lmao.
It's another billion dollar deal. You take that, no matter how successful the service is/was.
And no, obviously it didn't flop (and it's only for US).
That's the countdown until somebody else pays WWE $10 billion for streaming rights of all their shows because somebody in power remembers it being big when they were younger.
I cared, but never enough to pay for another streaming sub just for WWE.
I've watched some old TV on the free tier (Rockford Files, etc.) and it seemed fine.
They'll catch on eventually, or NBCUniversal's management team will change. With this and the USA TV deal, I do wonder if Vince has pictures of the boss of NBCUniversal in flagrante with a goat or something.
This is only for the US so no. At least not worldwide. Everyone outside the US is still using the Network.
It's probably be region blocked in the US though?
I mean I guess it's better this way than having multiple tiers of subscription models for your app. At the very least I wouldn't have to suffer through that horrible app anymore.
Maybe? They said current subscribers would be bumped to Peacock Premium.
I have to say, this is quite a huge risk for the amount of money invested. I don't think even The Office being stream exclusive on Peacock has been that great of a success.
With ads, though. It's would still be $9.99 without ads.
I wonder how they're going to handle commercials during live PPVs.
With ads, though. It's would still be $9.99 without ads.
I wonder how they're going to handle commercials during live PPVs.
I wonder if they would do what WWE has done on the main shows prior, where you run an ad on screen in a small box in one of the corners during actual matches.
Seriously Vince won here he keeps tricking NBC into giving him big money deals lol.
Cool yeah that seems like the likely scenario
Putting all the PPV's on the network from the start was a huge mistake. Fans could spot the mistake before it happened but they have Vince in charge and he has not had a clue since about 2000.
I do, only tangible way to watch Premier League in the US atm
Not having to tour around the country every week saved them loads of cash. Their business is idiot proof thanks to their TV deals.
My only experience with Peacock is using it to watch a few episodes of Yellowstone. I used it through my comcast cable box and it is the SLOWEST streaming service I have ever used. Maybe if I used it with a normal smart TV, game console or chromecast it may have been better.
A lot of it is because traditional TV services have been chasing live tv/sports for a while now because they feel it's a big advantage over on demand streaming to get people to actually watch it. This somehow lead to the idea that any live sport/tv would be good for a network and then somehow a couple of networks lost their damn mind, fox especially, and decided to pay absurd amounts of money to wwe for the TV rights.
Because of this wwe money isn't actually based on the fans and getting them to buy into merch and tickets or ppvs, it's more based on the big TV networks money and blood money as well. Fans aren't the wwe customers that they care about anymore which a lot of people point to as a reason they don't give a fuck what fans actually want or care about and haven't done for a long time.
Dave Meltzer talked about this and it roughly works out as around $60m-$70m extra a year for WWE plus they can make more savings by reducing staff and maintenance costs for the network.
He also talked about the possibility of them also wanting to go after smackdown once the deal with fox is up so even if fox want to cut the deal down due to ratings, they would probably have another option to bring this to peacock too and have all of the WWE content under one ownership.
A great deal for a terrible company, run by even worse people.
He also talked about the possibility of them also wanting to go after smackdown once the deal with fox is up so even if fox want to cut the deal down due to ratings, they would probably have another option to bring this to peacock too and have all of the WWE content under one ownership.
A great deal for a terrible company, run by even worse people.
Nah, they'd never water it down with shitty product tie-ins like that for a cheap buck.
Science has gone too far.
