TKO CEO Mark Shapiro Comments On Streaming Future Of WWE PLEs

All WWE Premium Live Events stream live on Peacock, but WWE's deal with the platform expires in 2026.

Once the deal expires, TKO CEO Mark Shapiro believes there will be a number of suitors for the content.

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"The PLEs are seeing significant audiences. The marketing around the events have been terrific. That one in particular lends itself to even more suitors than the UFC, dare I say, because the nature of the PLEs, which are once a month. There are a lot of platforms out there that are looking for premium and also looking for volume. Other platforms are just looking for volume and even a smaller subset, but still enough for us, are looking for low volume but high premium. That is exactly what the PLEs are. Once a month, somewhere around the globe, we can schedule it with our partner depending on what is the strategic interest to them in terms of sub-growth, broadband growth, a new series they're launching, or a new event on the ground. The PLEs are attractive in the sense that you're getting high quality, very high premium, but just once a month. Obviously, we'll start those conversations at some point in the first half of next year with Peacock, exclusively, but we're interested to talk to other suitors. They know that, by the way," Shapiro said at the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference.

WWE Raw will be moving to Netflix in January 2025.

Elsewhere during the conference, Shapiro commented on WWE PLEs potentially moving to two nights. You can find his full comments by clicking here.

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