Posted Apr 28, 2016, 6:53 PM
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^ I'd say that's more about cutting out the middleman (networks) than about platform, which makes sense in many ways, especially for an outfit like the NFL that can easily bear the overhead of running its own network.
I'd wager that most people watching the WWE Network are doing so on TVs with some form of "cable" connection or on devices that are streaming to TVs. I doubt all that many people are watching 2 or 3 hours of Monday Night Raw on their iPhones.
That said, the WWE is well suited to this model since it gets next to no media coverage. By contrast the NFL gets tons and tons of it. Shifting their product to a closed-access channel would probably come back to bite them as the amount of earned media they get could drop significantly.
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