Netflix buys streaming rights for WWE Raw - 10 Year Contract

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Will VM lose their highlights shows?

The White Wolf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121660296#Comment_121660296

There's a lull definitely on content but I wouldn't put that on just Netflix, but for the prices they charge I'd expect more.

I have Disney and Prime, but I feel they're prices are just about OK for what they're delivering.

It's fascinating that Netflix swooped in on this, as WB/Max seemed to be the ones getting crap for removing original content in favour of more reality based programming, yet they haven't done any deals close to this. Netflix have just changed the game as a whole for streaming out of nowhere.

The Ayatolla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121660737#Comment_121660737

I wouldn’t think so. WWE has those in various markets and it’s also a week behind, so it’s pretty much an advertising tactic.

ShagNastii

Seems like a really weird fit with Netflix.

I can see why they're spending the money. Only yesterday I was looking at WWEs 99million subscribers on YT.

With it's viewership worldwide the WWE legitimately has to be up there with the Premier League. It will only get bigger.

ShagNastii

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121660010#Comment_121660010

Excuse the double post.

Unfortunately this will absolutely be the case. Its the one thing I would pay hundreds for. A solid "worts n all" Netflix series on Vince.

Arguably one of the biggest people on pop culture history and he's still a bit of an enigma.

Blue_Dabadee

Seems like a good deal, but I am at a stage where I think the best way to keep up with the product is through clips on their YouTube channel.

Even lately, they have been very good at uploading segments in full length like The Rock return from a few weeks ago.

El Gato De Negocios

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121661078#Comment_121661078

When Netflix launched here 10 or 11 years ago I used a VPN to access the US version as they had loads of WWE content on it, all the documentaries like the Flair and HBK ones as well as dvd special releases like history of the ladder matches, Austins best matches etc so there is history between the two companies.

Lord TSC

https://twitter.com/sherman4949/status/1749852030984736781

for those wondering how the ads will work.

CastorTroy

I assumed would be like AEW since they have the online version and the televised version. So picture in picture for televised during matches or fullscreen with commentary for online. Then when between matches, just get the standard WWE ads or maybe promos for Netflix shows.

Agent Coulson

So what will now become the longest running episodic show on TV when RAW moves to streaming?

Poor Michael Cole will have to find a new line.

The Ayatolla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121661910#Comment_121661910

Oh Netflix will still be considered "TV" and Raw is still episodic. 🤷‍♂️

OneEightSeven

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121661910#Comment_121661910

The longest-running weekly episodic television show in history.

Smackdown will be. If Smackdown moves to Netflix after its deal expires, then it will be TNA Impact. Wrestling is pretty unique in that it airs once a week, every week.

J. Marston

They'll keep saying it, to annoy the people who actually care about something so inconsequential.

Pinkman

Some deal for WWE. Regardless if some think there is far less original content worth watching on Netflix these days, it is by far the top streaming service. Disney, Amazon, Paramount, HBO Max and Apple have all been hemorrhaging money and subscribers in the past few years whereas Netflix is dominating again after a slowdown in subs and a drop in stock in 2022. If you look at the US market alone , this recent report shows Netflix has a larger share in viewers than Prime, Disney+, Max and Paramount combined.

SteM

The problem for the streamers is there are so many that people are smartening up and dipping in and out. Disney+ over Christmas, Apple TV when something new is released etc. Let stuff build up and then binge over a month.

This is an interesting solution for netflix, less likely for wwe fans to dip in and out of their service.

PTH2009

It got a good run

https://cultaholic.com/posts/wwe-network-to-be-shut-down-at-end-of-2024

Did Netflix ever live stream anything ? Will Royal Rumble 2025 be the first streamed event on it

CastorTroy

They did a live stream for a reunion show of one of their dating shows last year and I seem to remember reading about it not going well.

SteM

They streamed a Chris Rock special live.

fman

They live streamed a golf/F1 crossover event too so they have been making moves. I presume first raw of 2025 will be their first event. Also something needs to be wrapped up for the last few months of this year when deals start running out.

Blue_Dabadee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121670828#Comment_121670828

I guess it is time to use my WWE Network subscription more than ever now.

Agent Coulson

I really want to see the Vince warts and all Netflix doc now after tonight new news

However after spending billions it will not see the light of day on Netflix anyway.

The Ayatolla

There's a chance that Netflix were just the distributors / funders of said documentary; it could be some film production company making the doc and it could be picked up by Disney or Prime or some other TV network? Possible anyway!

callaway92

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121674395#Comment_121674395

No. It is a Netflix documentary (docuseries) - They created it.

Patrick Mahomes

Will we get the original unedited uncensored shows from the past when the back catalogue is added to Netflix or will they add the edited Peacock network catalogue. Also I wouldn’t like to be the team that had to edit Vince and Vince voice out of the back catalogue.

Regards,

P.

Itssoeasy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122024678#Comment_122024678

The network even when it first started was not unedited. The peacock versions made more edits to some stuff when it took over they then became standard. The big edit is the piper vs Bad News brown match from WM 6.

There’s a goldust match from a raw in 1998 I think which is edited off.

Vince won’t be edited off the network. It would be a disaster to do. I can see him being given something like Benoit, in that they won’t highlight him in the searches and might change the chapter titles.

Rjd2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121671496#Comment_121671496

They have Tyson/Paul and Taylor/Serrano in the boxing coming up.