WWE Moves Premium Live Events From Peacock
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WWE’s premium live events are leaving Peacock, but have found a new streaming home. After the closure of WWE Network, the events moved to Peacock for the US audience. While Peacock was a comparatively reasonable option for users,
WWE’s quarterly Saturday Night Main Event specials will be heading to Peacock exclusively as part of a new arrangement between WWE and NBCU/Peacock.
In a press release announcing a new deal between WWE and Peacock, NBC Sports said: "Peacock will exclusively stream two nights of Saturday Night’s Main Events this year, with the first taking place on November 1. "Additionally, Saturday Night’s Main ...
Under the terms of the new deal, ESPN gets the 10 main WWE PLEs (WrestleMania and SummerSlam are two nights apiece) at the aforementioned rate of $325 million/year, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. It’s a hell of a raise for WWE, which was getting $180 million annually from Peacock — a number that included all of the storied league’s archives.
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