WWE Premium Live Events moves to ESPN new Streaming Service

[comfortably_numb]

I see results on Tuesday

Aren't the "results" determined far in advance?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

So as it stands today, If I am taking in all the information right. If I wanted to catch a WWE PLE next month as a Dish Customer I would have to subscribe to the new ESPN service ?

Correct.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yes.

Do I expect Dish to make a deal, also yes.

I am guessing NO. It seems if they get a deal it will be for the $19.99 a month package, not the $29.99 package. And its the $29.99 package that contains the WWE stuff.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Aren't the "results" determined far in advance?

Sometimes no.

But going on what Tony said above, Normally the results for many of the matches are posted minutes after they are over, sometime with video. I would expect this to stop or the delivery to slow down as no reason to subscribe if you get the results live as they happen.

 

[Bruce]

I am guessing NO. It seems if they get a deal it will be for the $19.99 a month package, not the $29.99 package. And its the $29.99 package that contains the WWE stuff.

I just went to ESPN's site, only see the $29.99 plan/option on it's own or this-

ESPN Select, Monthly, $11.99 ( former ESPN+)
ESPN Select, Annual, $119.99
ESPN Unlimited, Monthly, $29.99
ESPN Unlimited, Annual, $299.99

https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/40375475974036-ESPN-Select-or-Unlimited-Plans-and-Prices

I probably will be doing this during Football Season-

Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Unlimited Bundle Premium

$38.99/month* for 12 months
then $44.99 per month
Disney+ (No Ads), Hulu (No Ads), ESPN Unlimited (With Ads). Ads will be served in select live and linear content.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I just went to ESPN's site, only see the $29.99 plan/option on it's own or this-

ESPN Select, Monthly, $11.99 ( former ESPN+)
ESPN Select, Annual, $119.99
ESPN Unlimited, Monthly, $29.99
ESPN Unlimited, Annual, $299.99

https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/40375475974036-ESPN-Select-or-Unlimited-Plans-and-Prices

I probably will be doing this during Football Season-

Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Unlimited Bundle Premium

$38.99/month* for 12 months
then $44.99 per month
Disney+ (No Ads), Hulu (No Ads), ESPN Unlimited (With Ads). Ads will be served in select live and linear content.

I was listening to the radio when driving home and they said that another cable company signed a seal today with ESPN but it only covered the ESPN + Plan which they were saying is the $19.99 a month plan, and saying it does not include the WWE stuff which is in the $29.99 a month package.

Maybe they were wrong with what they were saying, but it was on SiriusXM, so I would HOPE they know what they are talking about.

Now I have mentioned using a VPN and watching all this stuff on Netflix. To me this is a valid work around as I don't feel like I am steeling as I am paying for the service. And If I drove up to Canada and started my Netflix app I would be able to watch those things as part of my package because of my location.

The WWE is happy about this deal with ESPN because they are getting paid $500 million for every PPV they hold. That $500 million without doing anything other then putting on a show, not to mention the money they make in ticket and merchandise sales they get on top of the $500 million.

If you follow wrestling their competition AEW is selling out all over the place and are happy yet their gate they are taking home is less than $2 million, and they are playing to some of the same size arenas and stadiums the WWE is... so imagine getting paid $500 million just to have a show. WWE Don't care now they have a contract and are getting paid no matter how many eyes are seeing it, its is now up to ESPN to draw people in to pay the $29.99 a month for their service to see them.

I am not a sports fan, so its not worth it to me, for others they are avid sports fans and will pay it and getting the WWE stuff will be like getting a ice bonus, it will be a good deal for them.

 

[meStevo]

Now I have mentioned using a VPN and watching all this stuff on Netflix. To me this is a valid work around as I don't feel like I am steeling as I am paying for the service. And If I drove up to Canada and started my Netflix app I would be able to watch those things as part of my package because of my location.

It's not stealing, but it's explicitly a violation of Netflix TOS (any effort to obscure your location is), it's not uncommon for Netflix to blacklist VPN IPs. I could see this being the impetus for more emphasis on enforcement just as other high profile content has in the past. But yes, if you want to just drive over to Canada to watch it, that's a perfectly valid usage of your service. I've had it inadvertently happen to me but it was a fluke and wasn't attempting to access anything like what's being described, was just still connected to my work VPN on accident.

Netflix says, 'You seem to be using a VPN or proxy.'

If you get the error code E106 or this message, your device or network connects to Netflix through a VPN or proxy service that may hide your internet location. You'll need to turn off your VPN while watching Netflix.

help.netflix.com

 

[Bruce]

I was listening to the radio when driving home and they said that another cable company signed a seal today with ESPN but it only covered the ESPN + Plan which they were saying is the $19.99 a month plan, and saying it does not include the WWE stuff which is in the $29.99 a month package.

Maybe they were wrong with what they were saying, but it was on SiriusXM, so I would HOPE they know what they are talking about.

Well, I would assume they are wrong, especially since there is no $19.99 a month plan.

 

[teachsac]

Interesting fact about VPN's. Techdoctor UK just received a piracy letter from his service provider while always using a VPN. Not sure they are as private as advertised.

No. I don't pirate stuff. Follow him because he's pretty good about knowing what's going on in the cord cutter world.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Interesting fact about VPN's. Techdoctor UK just received a piracy letter from his service provider while always using a VPN. Not sure they are as private as advertised.

No. I don't pirate stuff. Follow him because he's pretty good about knowing what's going on in the cord cutter world.

I don't pirate either. But since I do have a server in Canada I do use it with OpenVPN.

I do not have a service like Nord for my VPN and since I am the only one to use it I don't think it would be blacklisted like a commercial vpn account could be.

And I will be honest for about 3 weeks now since setting it up I have been watching Monday Night Raw using it.

Here in the USA they have lots of commercials however outside the us when they go to commercial the matches continue airing while the us is in commercial breaks.

 

[Yespage]

The WWE is happy about this deal with ESPN because they are getting paid $500 million for every PPV they hold. That $500 million without doing anything other then putting on a show, not to mention the money they make in ticket and merchandise sales they get on top of the $500 million.

Is that $50 million a PPV,? I wouldn't think WrestleMania would be worth $500 million. Also, that'd be $6 billion a year for PPVs alone.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

You may be correct with it being 50 Million. Sorry. But still thats a hell of a price per episode.

 

[Yespage]

Yeah, a nice auto payday. WWE would prefer to be paid upfront for its PPVs, no questions asked. Why they did the deal with Comcast and why with Disney now.

 

[Bruce]

Charter/Spectrum just added ESPN streaming for it's TV subscribers, along with Fox.

Amazed the other big providers have not yet, Comcast, DirecTV Satellite, Dish and YTTV ( who did add Fox), have still not done so.

https://www.streamtvinsider.com/content/espn-and-fox-one-launch-charter-adds-streamers-pay-tv-packages

 

[MikeD-C05]

So glad I don't care about sports. This sounds like a money nightmare.