Three separate billion dollar deals but employee status and health insurance is still a bridge too far.

What content did WWE have on ESPN?

They were airing old WWE ppvs this last year to fill time w/o sports and would break exclusives on ESPN dot com about WWE news sometimes, nothing major tho

How does the NFL handle allowing games on other networks to be mentioned?

I know WWE will obviously be able to promote ppvs but I wonder how much FOX will let them promote/advertise Peacock

WWE has a long history of thinking it's not a huge deal if their stuff is being shown on competing networks. They've been that way since 1984 when MTV showed the Brawl to end it All. USA Network was mad about that one.

WWE wants more of that peacock. We need more dick jokes.

Meh. It was funny the first time around but it eventually grew tiresome with the people getting full of themselves.

Umm, Vince should have given them health insurance years ago???

Is that a spin?

I'm not a math person so I didn't think about this at all


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Brandon, help me out here. If the deal is worth a billion dollars for five years, how does NBCU justify that price tag? 1.1 million subscribers paying $4.99 a month comes out to just under $60 million in subscription fees annually. What am I missing?</p>&mdash; Jesse Collings (@JesseCollings) <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseCollings/status/1353762569182453760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Vince McMahon knows how to strike up a fucking deal. AE-Who? Lol at people in this thread thinking this is a bad thing. This is GIANT for them. It increases their visibility so much. Peacock isn’t international (right now), but I might actually end up with access to old PPVs because I would get it if it were.

The deal is worth so much because WWE is going to bring over with them a certain amount of traffic and those viewers are going to use the app for other reasons, some of which will have more valuable ad space.

It's all an arms race. Landing any content that swings the favor to Peacock over say HBO Max or CBS All Access is a major win to them. They just added 17,000 hours of content, plus year round new content that will be added.

Not the spin I was expecting but I'll take it.

that is true, i looked at the movie content on peacock even the paid one an it sucks. peacock will know atleast 1 month of the year will get a bunch of wrestling fans.

Not all that long ago, WWE was able to get over a million people to spend $60+ to watch WrestleMania. Now it’s basically free and they’ll probably get roughly the same amount of people to watch. Insane to think about.

Vince is only getting richer though, so how does that work?

This Yokozuna docu on the Network is awesome.

So is Mania gonna be free in the peacock app now?

Agreed. Lots of fun so far

Only if you get Peacock premium for free with like Comcast cable or whoever that is.

The big confusion is they call their $4.99 version Peacock Premium but it's not their highest tier. $9.99 is their highest tier, which is ad free.

So they have:
1. Free
2. Premium
3. Ad Free

Something like 24 million of those cable subscribers get Premium for free, but they can still pay $4.99 to get as free. If 5% of those people watch Mania, that would be a homerun for WWE.

Peacock also has what I read was 26 million paying subscribers not including the above mentioned 24 million. Again, if 5% of those people decide to watch Wrestemania, between both groups that's an extra 2.5 million U.S. Viewers watching on top of the actual Network subscribers.

It is not out of the question that Wrestlemania could be watched by 4 million domestic viewers.

Lol I loved the Yoko vs Taker casket match devolving into a 10 on 1 beat down on Undertaker

Those damn heels, young me was so pissed about that! Lol

Taker speaking from the casket and then ascending to heaven creeped the living shit out of me as a kid.

I loved it as a kid. Papa Shango making Warrior vomit, now THAT creeped me out

This.

This got me bigtime as a kid too. They did a helluva job with it.