WWE Netflix/Peacock/ESPN Discussion Thread

[ubernoob]

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That's irrelevant to the WWE allowing blood argument. It wasn't the WWE. The WWE tests. Just because some Indy promotion doesn't test doesn't mean the WWE doesn't.

And how often do they test/how fast do they get the results in?

Just because someone tests negative one day doesn't mean they're clean forever, but you know that. And blood work ain't cheap.

[jmillhimes]

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WWE announced today that they have 700,000 WWE
Network subscribers.


They previously announced 667,000 subscribers on April 7th. They added
161,000 subscribers since then but also lost 128,000, a difference of
33,000.

Wow. Alot of people dropping

[areobee401]

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Apparently a new $19.99 per month subscription with no commitment is on the way.

[Aggies7]

WWE Network Discussion Thread

Apparently a new $19.99 per month subscription with no commitment is on the way.

I heard rumors about that as well. Are those with the Network from Day 1 grandfathered in or are our prices increasing to that?

[areobee401]

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I heard rumors about that as well. Are those with the Network from Day 1 grandfathered in or are our prices increasing to that?

From what I understand the current $59.99 subscription with a 6 month commitment will still be available.

[Aggies7]

WWE Network Discussion Thread

From what I understand the current $59.99 subscription with a 6 month commitment will still be available.

Ok good. Love the Network and if I had to pay extra $10 a month I guess I would but happy they are staying loyal to those that signed up immediately for that price and still allowing folks to get that price.

The $19.99 seems like it would undermine PPV sales. Someone could sign up for months where they want the PPV and then not renew until they want to see another PPV. But I guess it's a good savings for those folks that chose to do that.

[Majingir]

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WWE Network is coming to Canada! It'll be available as a TV channel(and on demand tv channel) too!



Free Preview starts August 12th meaning I get to watch Summerslam for FREE! Since it's a TV channel and not PPV, I wonder if people will be able to DVR the "PPVs" and stuff, just so that if they're busy, they can still watch it later on(assuming the on demand channel doesn't upload the PPVs right away)

[DJ]

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So for those of us that have been paying $9.99/mo., will we have to sign back up for the Network, or will our subscription keep going? I don't mind paying the $60 up front if I have to, but would just prefer for the money to come out monthly.

[WWF80sKid]

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So for those of us that have been paying $9.99/mo., will we have to sign back up for the Network, or will our subscription keep going? I don't mind paying the $60 up front if I have to, but would just prefer for the money to come out monthly.

Go into your settings and set it to auto renew.

I got an email about it.

[cima]

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http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top-stories/96-wwe/38247-notes-from-wwe-conference-call

Some major news coming out of the WWE today

*WWE network will offer a $19.99 per month price for those who don't want to commit to the six month period. It's clear from the number of people who dropped the network even with the commitment in place that it will be much easier to just order at $9.99 and stop paying.

*A one-time payment plan has been offered. Currently subscribers are billed $9.99 per month, but now they can sign up for $59.94 and be billed all at once. The hope is that people will sign up to be billed all at once which saves money for people who decide to drop.

*The network has 700,000 subscribers as of 6/30. They didn't give an updated number. Between 4/7 and 6/30 they added 161,000 subscribers, but had 128,000 cancellations. They wouldn't give details but this is likely shortly after WrestleMania when they had the big jump in subscribers.

*The cancellation number is the huge story here.

*The network will be available in 170 countries on August 12. The key countries that affects are Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico, Spain, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

*They are targeting October for the U.K.

*Countries like Italy, UAE, Germany, Japan, China, Thailand and Malaysia would be available at a date to be announced

*WWE signed a ten year deal with Rogers Communications for exclusivity in Canada through 2024. This will include all current programming. The WWE Network will be offered as a traditional television PPV channel in Canada starting August 12. That explains the recent Observer report of WWE purchasing transponder time and testing out the network feed, as a prelude to a television availability. Rogers will own not only the broadcast rights but the digital rights to all the major WWE television shows.

*There wll be massive cost cutting internally. These costs will save the company $10 million this year and $30 million in 2015.

*The cutting wasn't specified past a seven percent reduction in the workforce. It was noted that with the reduction in the work force, there will be a one-time loss of $4.5 million for severance packages taken during the current third quarter.

*They will add Monday Night War and WWE Rivalries to the program schedule shortly.

*If they average 650,000 subscribers in the third quarter, they estimate OIBDA losses of $12 to $17 million in the next quarter, but with the cost cutbacks, annual OIBDA losses would be $25 million to $35 million. Previously they had estimated annual losses (not OIBDA, but total losses) at $45 million to $52 million.

*The network itself lost $15.5 million in OIBDA.

*The cutbacks are so significant that they now feel they can break even on 500,000 subscribers in 2015 as opposed to 1.4 million subscribers and at 1.5 million subscribers they will have OIBDA of $100 million to $120 million, which is more than they had pre-network.

*For the quarter, the company recorded $156.3 million in revenues and lost $14.5 million.

*The WrestleMania quarter last year took in $152.3 million in revenues and had $5.2 million in profits.

*On a world wide basis, WrestleMania did 690,000 buys, Extreme Rules did 108,000, Payback did 67,000 and Money in the Bank did 122,000. For 2013, those shows did 1,104,000; 245,000, 198,000 and 223,000 last year. Keep in mind U.S. totals for all shows were way down, but in theory (not fact), international should be the same. It's not, due to the number of international subscribers to the network.

*TV revenue was up from $38.7 million to $43.8 million due to Total Divas and some international contract gains.

*Digital media was down from $7.4 million to $5.2 million due to less Internet PPV purchases of WrestleMania and the other shows.

*House show attendance was up 13% domestically, misleading because they had 11 fewer shows, meaning the higher attended TV tapings make the average look higher. Because of fewer events and smaller overall attendance, arena merchandise was down 7%. This doesn't include WrestleMania, which was down this year due to a lower attendance and gate. International was down 8%

*Licensing was down due to lower video game sales.

*WWE shop revenues increased 33% from $3 million to $4 million because of an increase in orders. A lot of that increase was due to a new distribution model in the U.K. utilizing Amazon.

*Bryan and I will be doing an audio on this available this afternoon. A full breakdown of this and more WWE business items will be in next week's Observer.

Well there you go. This should put to rest any doubt if the Network will survive or not.

[Trevelyan]

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Wow. Alot of people dropping

All those subscribers they lost aren't people who just canceled it, because they can't yet. Its people who weren't paying. Should be really interesting to see the numbers after the renewals. That'll tell us whether the network is doomed or not.

[Aggies7]

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Go into your settings and set it to auto renew.

I got an email about it.

It's weird I just check it and it said I'm currently in my 7 day trial and I will be charged 8/8. If I don't want to be charged click here.

I have had the Network for months so I don't know what trial they are talking about and if it says click here to not be charged that means I have auto renewal on right?

[StevenSD]

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It's weird I just check it and it said I'm currently in my 7 day trial and I will be charged 8/8. If I don't want to be charged click here.

I have had the Network for months so I don't know what trial they are talking about and if it says click here to not be charged that means I have auto renewal on right?

Did you go to the billing link in your user settings?

It should be on auto renew automatically... I received any email saying if I didn't want to auto renew I had to change that setting.

[SPTO]

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So i'm a little confused here so if any other Canadians can help that'd be cool. So if I wanted the network over the internet so I can do on demand and such will I have to sign up through WWE.com or is it going to be like how SNET and TSN has a thing where you have to prove you're a Rogers customer and it's essentially "for free"?

I'm leery of getting the network through the traditional TV route as I don't like being bound by a TV schedule and i've been trimming down my TV bill a bit. I'm very much willing to pay for the network on my paypal over the internet though

[nate1986]

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I don't see it as a doomed project because WWE classics on demand only had 115,000 subscriptions at its peak and they stuck with that for a good 10 years so WWE network ain't going anywhere anytime soon