WWE Raw shall be streamed solely on Netflix from January 2025
- Raw is WWE’s flagship present and runs each Monday evening on stay tv
- The programme is aired on the USA Network within the US and TNT Sports within the UK
- The present will go away linear tv for the primary time since its inception in 1993
WWE‘s flagship programme, Monday Night Raw, is heading to Netflix.
In a transfer TKO have described as ‘a significant programming shift’, Raw will go away linear tv for the primary time since its creation in 1993 because it strikes to the streaming service from January 2025 in a deal value a reported $5billion over 10 years, with the streamer given the choice of exiting the deal after 5 years or extending it for an additional 10.
Netflix would be the unique dwelling of the present within the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Latin America, and also will play host to the corporate’s premium stay occasions, with different documentaries and unique sequence additionally to be made obtainable on the platform.
TNT Sports has been the house of WWE within the UK for the previous couple of years after a lot of phrases of Sky Sports displaying its programming, however NXT lately left the broadcaster and Raw will now observe go well with.
The information was confirmed by WWE on the day that Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson was added to the board of administrators at TKO, WWE’s umbrella firm, in what turned out to be an enormous day for the promotion.
WWE Raw shall be streamed solely on Netflix because it leaves linear tv for the primary time since its creation
Currently proven on USA Network within the United States and TNT Sports within the UK, the present will go away linear tv for the primary time ever
The deal is alleged to be value $5billion over 10 years, with the streaming service capable of pull out after 5 or prolong one other 10
Mark Shapiro, TKO president and COO, mentioned: ‘This deal is transformative. It marries the can’t-miss WWE product with Netflix’s extraordinary world attain and locks in important and predictable economics for a few years.
‘Our partnership essentially alters and strengthens the media panorama, dramatically expands the attain of WWE, and brings weekly stay appointment viewing to Netflix.’
WWE president Nick Khan added: ‘In its comparatively brief historical past, Netflix has engineered an exceptional monitor document for storytelling. We imagine Netflix, as one of many world’s main leisure manufacturers, is the best long-term dwelling for Raw’s stay, loyal, and ever-growing fan base.’
Finally, Netflix chief content material officer, Bela Bajaria, mentioned: ‘We are excited to have WWE Raw, with its big and passionate multigenerational fan base, on Netflix. By combining our attain, suggestions, and fandom with WWE, we’ll have the ability to ship extra pleasure and worth for his or her audiences and our members.
The information comes on a day The Rock was added to the board of administrators at WWE umbrella firm TKO
The transfer comes on the again of WWE’s merger with the UFC, with TKO taking up each corporations final 12 months
‘Raw is the very best of sports activities leisure, mixing nice characters and storytelling with stay motion 52 weeks a 12 months and we’re thrilled to be on this long-term partnership with WWE.’
Raw presently runs for 3 hours each Monday evening, airing stay from 1am to 4am within the United Kingdom.
The present brings in 17.5million distinctive viewers a 12 months on the USA Network by means of its cope with NBCUniversal, which runs till October this 12 months. It stays unclear the place the present shall be hosted between October 2024 and January 2025.
The information comes on the day that Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson was added to the board of administrators at TKO.
