WWE Friday Night Smackdown on Friday night drew 1.561 million viewers on the USA Network. It was second in viewership for the night in the A18-49 demo per Programming Insider. Friday Night Smackdown 0.52 in the A18-49 demo (approximately 691K-701K viewers) which was second overall on the night to the ACC Tournament game between North […]
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Ad inventory “sold out” for WWE Raw on Netflix
The invention of ads on streaming services seems to be the antithesis of purchasing a streaming service. However, this is the new model and Netflix has “sold out” of its ad inventory for WWE’s Raw live programming on Monday nights. The “sold out” comes with quotation marks because the benchmark is only that of the […]
TKO reports Q4 2024 earnings
TKO reported its 4th quarter earnings for 2024 and beat analyst expectations yet again. Overall, the owners of the WWE and UFC reported total revenue for Q4 of $642.2 million and adjusted earnings before taxes, interest, depreciation and amortization of $238.1 million. But the UFC legal settlement in the Cung Le, et al. lawsuit caused […]
Saturday Night’s Main Event draws 1.494M viewers
This past Saturday Night’s Main Event from San Antonio drew 1.494 million viewers per Wrestlenomics. The telecast drew a rating of 0.33 in the A18-49 demo. It was the second event of the WWE reboot from the 1980s. The telecast was down from December’s re-debut by 21% in the A18-49. The telecast went up against […]
WWE-TNA announce partnership
On Thursday, the WWE announced a multi-year partnership with TNA. According to the WWE press release, the agreement will enable talent to garner additional exposure across WWE and TNA programming including NXT and TNA iMPACT! The release also noted that the crossover may include WWE PLEs and TNA PPVs. The crossover started last year at […]