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Channels with Peter Kafka

WWE’s Nick Khan on pivoting his streaming strategy and getting back in the ring

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Nick Khan used to be a CAA agent who represented the WWE. Now he’s president of the pro wrestling company and is pivoting it from a direct-to-consumer strategy into a content studio for the likes of Peacock and Fox. Khan tells Recode’s Peter Kafka why the WWE has abandoned its pioneering streaming model, how he’s managing the company through covid, and what got him into the TV business. Featuring: Nick Khan, WWE President & Chief Revenue Officer Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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slash voxpod this is recode media with peter kofka and i am not in brooklyn i'm not in a remote

1:10.6

studio i am an 85

1:12.3

Broad Street from Manhattan. I'm delighted to be here with Nick Kahn. He is president and

1:17.7

chief revenue officer of the WWE. That's pro wrestling for anyone who's not initiated, but you're

1:23.9

all initiated. You all know what pro wrestling is. Welcome, Nick. Thank you very much for having me, long-time listener. I would normally say first-time caller, but obviously I'm not calling, so. You are the first person I've interviewed face-to-face since March, early March of 2020. I'm delighted to have you here. Happy to be here, happy to be in person with you. Thank you. Thank you. On Saturday, a couple days after this podcast comes out,

1:45.7

is SummerSlam. This is one of your two big pro wrestling WWE events. It will be live. People will be in

1:52.6

person. How would you watch it if you wanted to watch SummerSlam and you weren't in Las Vegas?

1:56.9

So in the United States, you'd watch it on Peacock. It is still available on traditional pay-per-view.

2:03.0

The reason we made that decision with Peacock was because for certain rural areas where we have a fan base that may not have high-speed Internet, we wanted to make sure that it's still available to then through the traditional means of ordering through cable, satellite, etc.

2:17.4

But primarily through Peacock.

2:19.2

Peacock, the NBCU streaming service that we have not spent a lot of time talking about on this show

2:24.9

and is considered to be sort of a slow starting service.

2:28.2

It's Comcast service.

2:29.4

And the reason I asked you about SummerSlam is because prior to this year,

2:33.9

you would have watched a big SummerSlam WWB prior to this year, you would have watched a big

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