The WWE announced its fourth quarter earnings on Thursday and despite not beating loss per share estimates, its stock reached a 52 week high during the day. In addition, Vince McMahon spoke about the CM Punk situation. As it relates to Punk, when asked about his abrupt departure from the WWE, McMahon indicated that he […]
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UFC 169: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at the Super Bowl Weekend card taking place at The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Barao handles Faber To paraphrase Richard Sherman, “Barao is the best fighter in the game, when you put up a mediocre turtle defense like Faber, that’s […]
DirecTV not happy with WWE Network
LA Times reports that DirecTV may no longer carry WWE PPVs as a result of its announcement that it is launching a new over the top network. Pay-TV distributors and the WWE usually split the cost to consumers 50-50 on PPVs thus making it a “solid revenue source,” according to the Times article. WWE contends […]
Pricing out PPVs for rest of 2013
Wrestlemania 29 PPV buy rate lower than last year
Figure Four Online reported over the weekend that the WWE has officially released its first Wrestlemania 29 buy rate. The worldwide buy rate for this year’s annual event was 1,048,000 which is lower than Wrestlemania 28. The Wrestlemania 28 PPV buy rate was lowered a couple times from an initial 1.3M buys down to somewhere […]