Netflix pays $5 billion for WWE's 'Raw' in bet on live events

[Jan]

Bad news for DStv as Netflix bets big on live-streamed events — R95-billion big

Netflix Inc. has acquired the exclusive rights to Raw as well as other programming from World Wrestling Entertainment, marking the streaming service’s first big move into live events.

The streaming giant has agreed to pay $5 billion over the course of the 10-year deal, according to people familiar with the terms who asked to not be identified because the numbers aren’t public.

 

[My_King]

Toe toe toe da

And his name is john china

tee toe da dha.

China please subscribe though

 

[Pegging]

Toe toe toe da

And his name is john china

tee toe da dha.

China please subscribe though

His name is the Undertaker.

 

[W@P]

Wow. I cannot believ. People watch this kak.

 

[backstreetboy]

Can't make quality original movies but can waste money on this? Crazy.

 

[Nerfherder]

What a waste - so much other sport that they could have tested out.

 

[porchrat]

Wow. I cannot believ. People watch this kak.

I used to watch this stuff on eTV before school each morning. Seeing steroid-swallowing bodybuilders slapping each other and pretending very poorly that they were real punches was better than any comedy special

Also every now and again when they showed you an audience member and you thought to yourself "some of these people actually think this is real". Always made my morning.

 

[now05ster]

Wow. I cannot believ. People watch this kak.

Even. Me. Can't believe.

 

[dualmeister]

They over paid

 

[Progenix Oj101]

I wish they'd rather spend money on dubbing all the Spanish-only series to English

 

[airborne]

What a waste - so much other sport that they could have tested out.

It’s not a waste when you consider how much the world's biggest market the USA loves WWE.

 

[backstreetboy]

I wish they'd rather spend money on dubbing all the Spanish-only series to English

Do you like hearing people sound surprised all the time?

 

[W@P]

I used to watch this stuff on eTV before school each morning. Seeing steroid-swallowing bodybuilders slapping the back acne off each other and pretending very poorly that they were real punches was better than any comedy special

Fixed.

 

[rh1]

It’s not a waste when you consider how much the world's biggest market the USA loves WWE.

So long as the rest of netflox customers dont subsidise it.

 

[epah]

They could've spent that money feeding hungry African kids. The returns would've been way better.

 

[dualmeister]

They could've spent that money feeding hungry African kids. The returns would've been way better.

 

[Diesal]

I wonder how Supersport feels about this, didn't they sign a deal a while back?

We know Dstv hates Netflix...

 

[wingnut771]

I used to watch this stuff on eTV before school each morning. Seeing steroid-swallowing bodybuilders slapping each other and pretending very poorly that they were real punches was better than any comedy special

Also every now and again when they showed you an audience member and you thought to yourself "some of these people actually think this is real". Always made my morning.

It's worse than soccer.

 

[porchrat]

It's worse than soccer.

Oh definitely. The acting is probably the worst I've ever seen... and I've watched The Room.

 

[W@P]

They could've spent that money feeding hungry African kids. The returns would've been way better.