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Two huge developments happen overnight. 2024 is off to a wild start.
Breaking WWE Raw inks deal with Netflix; The Rock joins TKO Board of Directors
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undertakerNkane
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Heard the Netflix deal is for 10 years which is crazy to me. Not sure if that’s been confirmed though.
wweboo
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Yeah what I was seeing reported was a 10 year deal with Netflix being able to back out at 5 years, or extend up to an additional 10 years after the first 10. Insane deal.
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I would presume this means no more commercials, so we’ll likely see a lot of promotional stuff in between segments like they do on Peacock for PLE.
I wonder if Raw will stay 3 hours or go back to being a 2 hour show.
I wonder if Raw will stay 3 hours or go back to being a 2 hour show.
AWSMan
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No commercials would be good. 2 hour Raw would be even better.
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Raw has done a good job lately filling all 3 hours. They have a massive women’s division and I think they’ve featured all of them (with the exception of those injured) in some way the past few weeks. They’ve also done a nice job with the tag and midcard divisions, so as long as they utilize the roster, I have no issues with them keeping the 3-hour format.
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I actually think that Netflix may regret the deal sort of like how Fox has regretted Smackdown.
Great for WWE though, get that money while you can.
Great for WWE though, get that money while you can.
RKO-Cutter
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Not a business expert, but I've seen some people raise an eyebrow at this deal
It's a shitton of money no doubt, but I guess WWE wanted 400 million a year for RAW, now they're getting 500 million a year for RAW and basically all of their international rights. Questions being raised if that was worth it
AWSMan
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Isn’t that a positive on both fronts for WWE? What’s the downside to them that would make it seem not worth it?
RKO-Cutter
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That all their international rights could've potentially been worth more