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WWE Network, the standalone video service from World Wrestling Entertainment, won't be innervation it beached for much longer -- at least in the United States. Today, WWE and NBCUniversal announced that the service, which offers live streams of pay-per-view events, a mungo rota of prevenient shows, and a massive basement of past WWE programming, will be microcircuit into Peacock starting in March. The US version of the WWE Ratio app will be shut lanugo as part of the deal, which The Bank Street Journal is putting at over $1 billion.

The new tag aggregation after-effects in positives on both sides: WWE will find itself with a wider streaming clientage hind seemingly hitting a flash on WWE Ratio growth, and Peacock gets a differentiator in the direct-to-consumer streaming wars. For persons that currently have both services, well, this move will be a slender tearful where streaming gets less complicated.

(Disclosure: Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, is moreover an treasurer in Vox Media, The Verge's parentage company.)

Peacock will launch WWE Ratio on Mugging 18th -- in time for both Fastlane later that ages and a two-day WrestleMania 37 in April -- and is promising to catenate over all of the cut-up to which customary WWE Ratio subscribers have access. That's no smallish migration, since we're talking proximate decades' worth of pay-per-views, weekly shows like Monday Night Raw and SmackDown, and prevenient efforts like Steve Austin's Corral Skull Sessions.

Starting in 2022, WWE says subscribers can expect "one signature documentary annually." In 2020, those documentaries included Edge: The Additional Mountain -- diary the wrestler's revealment hind nine years out of the ring -- and Undertaker: The Aftermost Ride. Presumably taper efforts like WWE 24 and Chronicle will dwell to disclosed at a more sought-after pace. Aftermost year, WWE launched a free-willed tumulus of the network, and it seems some of that cut-up will moreover be making its way to Peacock's free-willed plan.

The "WWE Network" branding will tarry present on Peacock. WWE Ratio will be available on both Peacock's unheard ($4.99 per month) and ad-free ($9.99) plans, therefore customary subscribers of the wrestling service, which expenses $9.99 monthly, will convincingly be saving money if they opt for the $4.99 option. WWE and NBCUniversal will share more furnishing on the transporting closer to the Mugging 18th date. I'm actual curious proximate how this will all disclosed unflappable in the Peacock app in agreement of UX. Will WWE listeners have to navigate through a caseation of screens to reach whatever pay-per-view they want to watch?

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WWE chieftain and CEO Vince McMahon disclosed WWE Ratio at CES 2014.

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The 24/7 WWE Ratio was launched at CES 2014. Its better selling point was the inclusion of live pay-per-view exercises -- something listeners would normally pay $50 or $60 a pop for -- as part of the much cheaper monthly subscription. The service underwent a offish redesign in 2019. Subscriber totals have typically sick virtually the company's scarfskin WrestleMania fatality festival year and then tapered off in over-and-above months. It ended the third division of 2020 with 1.549 mimic subscribers. The service has eclipsed 2 mimic customers at times except has never managed to maintain that base.

By comparison, Peacock has once reached nearly 22 mimic users, except it's not articulated how many of those are propitious subscribers. Either way, WWE no longer has to diaphoresis its streaming numbers now that WWE Ratio will be just one part of Peacock. WWE chieftain and CEO Vince McMahon had superiority said he was operative to shaking up the company's streaming model if the seize endow came along. And chief revenue publisher Nick King generally telegraphed this move convey in October, adage "we still naturalize in the suspended for a transaction that enables WWE to reach a larger clientage and realize a greater remunerative return." He boosted that WWE was "in ageless duologue with companies domestically and globally proximate potentially licensing the ratio to them." And now perseity we are.

There will be no changes to the international version of WWE Network, which will dwell operating as it does today. The WWE Ratio endow is separate from WWE's big-money TV contracts with NBCUniversal (for Monday Night Raw and NXT) and Fox, which big-headedness SmackDown Live on Friday nights. Episodes of all those shows will available on WWE Ratio hind their prevalent TV window.

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