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NBCUniversal’s USA Network previously held the rights to Raw, paying $1.325 billion over five years. While airing on that network, Raw gathered an average audience of 2 million people a week.
The 10-year deal marks Netflix's first big venture into the world of live sports entertainment, while Raw will be leaving linear television for the first time since its inception 31 years ago.
That figure is 116% higher than Monday Night Raw's average of 1.2 million households in 2024, and it was the highest viewership for any other episode of the show in the past five years.
WWE Raw is a professional wrestling television program produced by the American promotion WWE.It first aired on January 11, 1993, on the USA Network and since became the longest-running weekly episodic program in television history with no reruns, airing almost exclusively on USA, apart from a brief run on TNN (renamed to Spike TV in 2003 and now known as the Paramount Network) from 2000 to ...
Previously the rights to broadcast Raw, along with other WWE shows, were held by free-to-air broadcaster e.tv. [153] Raw would play on Sundays in the evening, with a 7-day delay, edited to one hour and was the most watched program on the channel. However, in 2017 e.tv decided not to renew its broadcasting deal with WWE. [154]
On January 23, 2024, TKO Group announced that Netflix would acquire the rights to Raw beginning in January 2025, in what was reported to be a 10-year deal worth $500 million per-year (roughly double the value of WWE's current agreement with NBCUniversal). The agreement will initially cover the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and ...
Raw was the No. 1 show on USA Network, its former home, according to a press release from Netflix and WWE. The show had 17.5 million unique viewers over the course of 2023. The show had 17.5 ...
The deal is valued at $500 million per year for 10 years, or a whopping $5 billion commitment by the streamer. Netflix has the option to opt out after the initial five years and to extend for an ...