POST INTERVIEW: Brandon Thurston on the WWE-Peacock Deal
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🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock is joined by Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics to discuss the massive deal between WWE and NBCU’s Peacock streaming network.
They go through all the details of the multi-year deal that sees Peacock become the exclusive U.S. distributor of WWE Network content, including all pay-per-view events. Plus, we go through the financials of the deal, long-term strategy on both sides, NXT, the history of the WWE Network, differing strategies with past executives, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everybody to post wrestling. It's John Pollack. A very big news item coming down today and that |
| 0:07.0 | meant that we had to put out the bat signal for wrestling's chief wrestling's |
| 0:10.6 | chief wrestling's wrestling's chief wrestling officer Brandon Thurston, who has joined us and before we dive into everything, Brandon, my thoughts with you and Western New York coming off the end of an improbable run for your ball bills. |
| 0:25.0 | It was brutal last night. |
| 0:26.2 | It was just the slow attrition of an EFT championship loss. |
| 0:31.1 | But yeah, I beat the chiefs and super technical |
| 0:35.8 | a couple weeks ago it was a close game but apparently that did not translate to |
| 0:39.8 | reality last night well at least you you have enough nights probably earmarked for a Raymond James Stadium event. |
| 0:47.0 | Why add something else in two weeks? |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, Tom Brady is going to play at home in Raymond James Stadium. |
| 0:53.2 | I guess they have to bring in, you know, at least they're booking the big heel in the big match |
| 0:58.1 | at the end of the season. |
| 0:59.1 | What a story? |
| 1:00.5 | They certainly luck themselves out for the local story there in in Tampa but we are here to discuss the |
| 1:08.8 | W. W. W. W.'s multi-year deal with NBCU's Peacock streaming service. |
| 1:15.0 | This announcement came down on Monday and I mean certainly Brandon this is not something out of left field. |
| 1:22.0 | This has been talked about going back a year ago where it seemed like it was imminent that an announcement of the |
| 1:28.2 | W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. |
| 1:30.8 | It's pay-per-Vie. |
| 1:32.0 | Was going to be made. |
| 1:33.8 | Probably in time for WrestleMania last year. |
| 1:35.8 | That deal did not come to pass and fast forward a year. |
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