WWE is relocating outward a ring to filigree a best of Hulk Hogan, The Rock and John Cena all in one place — a possess network.
It’s time to lay a pound down 24/7.
The WWE Network launches Feb. 24 as a streaming use for $9.99 per month with a six-month joining and will embody all 12 pay-per-view events.
The network is accessible on desktops and laptops around WWE.com. WWE Network will also be accessible by a WWE App on: Amazon’s Kindle Fire devices; Android inclination such as Samsung Galaxy; iOS inclination such as Apple iPad and iPhone; Roku streaming devices; PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4; and Xbox 360.
“WWE Network will yield transformative expansion for a association and rare value for a fans,” WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon pronounced Wednesday.
WWE joins a NFL, NHL, NBA and MLB as a latest sports-based classification that has a possess around-the-clock network. The network will atmosphere strange content, including pregame and postgame shows for a flagship “Raw” on Monday nights, classical events, existence shows, documentaries and other forms of smashmouth programming. The on-demand calm is a categorical offered indicate for an comparison assembly looking to reconnect with a product.
“We trust that is a future,” WWE arch income and selling officer Michelle Wilson said.
Fans can relive matches from a Attitude Era or simply locate adult on today’s authorization players like Daniel Bryan and C.M. Punk.
From their possess home or tools unknown, WWE believes it has a constant fan bottom indispensable to support a project.
Up opposite a BCS inhabitant championship game, Monday’s “Raw” averaged a stout 4.537 million viewers on USA Network for a three-hour show.
WWE has aired some of a biggest events on PPV dating to The Wrestling Classic on Nov. 7, 1985. WWE’s signature WrestleMania uncover in Apr drew 1,039,000 buys on pay-per-view, yet numbers for a other 11 cards are nowhere nearby that ostentatious number, in partial given of a high price.
The Royal Rumble on Jan. 26 goes for about $50 on PPV.
George Barrios, WWE’s arch plan and financial officer, pronounced about 800,000 to 1 million homes buy an normal of dual to 3 PPVs a year. About 1 million subscribers would concede a network to mangle even. Barrios pronounced investigate showed “it’s within a area of possibility” that WWE could have between 2 million and 4 million subscribers.
WWE pronounced it designed to reason a cost during $9.99 even after a initial six-month commitment.
The PPVs are still accessible in their stream format by wire or satellite providers.
“I’m only not assured a pay-per-view height is in it for a prolonged term,” Wilson said. “It’s not a best consumer experience.”
“Raw” and “Smackdown” will sojourn on wire television. “RAW” front on USA Network and “Friday Night Smackdown” is on SyFy. WWE’s TV rights will shortly be adult for grabs and new deals are approaching to be in place by Mar 4. Encores of those shows, however, will atmosphere on a network.
WWE has teased a fans with a network proclamation given promotional spots aired in 2011, yet zero ever happened until now, yet some programming aired on Hulu and Netflix. Wilson pronounced WWE deliberate using on an ad-supported network hire or as a reward compensate channel in a indication like HBO before determining a mercantile and placement package it wanted was best matched as a streaming network.
“Most people don’t consider lustful things of wire or satellite providers,” Wilson said. “We consider we can overdeliver like we always have.”
More than 1,500 hours of archived programming, that includes a WCW and ECW video libraries, will atmosphere untouched and uncensored, so references to a World Wrestling Federation, aged logos, or matches involving former wrestler Chris Benoit or former announcer Jesse Ventura will no longer be scrubbed from history.
Parental controls for calm rated TV-14 or TV-MA will be available.
Fans can allow to a network during 9 a.m. Feb. 24 and live programming starts during 11:06 p.m. with a 30-minute “Raw” postgame show. WWE collaborated with MLB Advanced Media to for record services, including operational support for arguable cross-platform distribution.
The WWE Network is scheduled to launch abroad by a finish of 2014 or early 2015.
“It’s going to change a approach we do business around a world,” Barrios said.
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