Wrestling Thread 6: It's Poppy • Page 616

I thought bushiroad came out and said it's not happening.

 

Lol I don't know why I thought that Peacock only had the free tier. I was excited at first.

 

Be interesting what happens with the Network overseas. There isn’t really any UK specific streaming services that it can integrated into, so surely it will continue over here. But then again, it will mean we’re still paying £9.99 (which is already 2 or 3 dollars more than you lot pay anyway), whereas the US will only pay $5 for it plus a crap load of stuff on peacock.

I dunno. I only resubscribed over Christmas as I was bored and had about a month of NXT to catch up on. I’ll be cancelling it again after the Rumble too.

 

Yeah, as of now its staying the same in every other country, but I could definitely see some deals made over the next year or so so that they can get rid of the network entirely. This is such an overwhelmingly good deal for WWE that its hard to believe they won't try to do the same abroad.

 

so wwe network will be $5 in the us? it'll probably still be 13 euro here

 

I have to think this also means the end of a lot of the expansions to classic content (sorry, ECW completionists), and/or new original programming which isn't aired elsewhere (like, we'll probably still get the video versions of the New Day Podcast and new episodes of NXT UK, but no more WWE Chronicle.)

 

Well, it'll be $5 on top of whatever you have to pay for Peacock, right? That was my understanding of how they've worded it.

I wonder how much it was costing WWE to run the Network? I'm assuming this means they can now offload a bunch of jobs for people who were working on the Network exclusively? No clue how many jobs that would be or how much that was costing WWE, but seems evident that their strategy over the last two years is cut costs everywhere and anywhere they can that they could easily still support

I believe the Variety article mentioned specifically Peakcock wanting WWE docs as part of the deal?

 

I feel like with NBC paying an astronomical amount for this, we'll still see a lot of the content we see today. I could be wrong, but I'd be surprised if they cut down.

Basically yeah. WWE Network won't exist in the US, but all of the US subs will be signed up for Peacock and paying for their $5 tier. The big caveat is it isn't ad-free.

 

I'll just watch on Taima still

 

Here's from the PR

Reads to me like they're gonna burn off what they have produced, and then in 2022, one doc a year.

 

Instead of monthly PPVs, I want them to start doing NBC Themed Special events. Instead of Payback, give me "The Duel at Dunder-Mifflin" or Payback in Pawnee"

 

I pay for NJPW World and don't watch it on NJPW World haha

I do the same for AEW because the Fite app is fucking awful.

 

Seems like this gives AEW a strong advantage over NXT moving forward.

 

HBO Max pay AEW too much money challenge. Let's goooooooooo

 

Well if NXT is on Peacock, I could see it being a different night to increase viewership. The experiment with Wednesdays is already kind of a failure.

I’m super happy with this move to Peacock though. I already pay for WWE network so it’s like getting Peacock for free, which has a lot of stuff I’d check out.

 

The impression I get is the "signature documentary" is going to be something they want to market to a general audience

 

Also a new show announcement:

 

I'm still baffled that Bivens isn't on TV every single fucking week. He should be NXT's Eddie Kingston. Just have him there no matter what.

 

So what happens to existing subscribers? You have to resubscribe?

 

Also very much interested in knowing how this all plays out.

 

I think the PR said that those details will be revealed closer to the March 18th date

 

Right, they're supposed to explain how you move from one to another. Personally, I don't really have anything "saved" in the WWE Network, no queue or anything, so I'm just gonna kill my Network account and start paying for Peacock.

 

I haven’t had the network since SummerSlam haha

 

Probably the smart move. Only real enjoyment I've gotten out of WWE since was the TakeOver O'Reilly/Balor match and the NXT UK Walter/Dragunov match, and both of those were in October.

 

Yeah I’m gonna sign up for the Rumble so I’ll get Takeover and Elimination Chamber then cancel until it moves to Peacock. Rumor is NBC paid 1 Billion for it over five years which is insane to me.