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LOTS OF INSIGHT INTO PLANNED LAUNCH OF WWE NETWORK

By Mike Johnson on 2011-12-05 13:52:41
Sports Business Daily featured a piece today on the upcoming WWE Network, which will launch in 2012. Highlights from the article:

*WWE is telling potential partners that the network will launch in 40 million homes, a huge number for an upstart.

*Comcast is working with WWE to help them clear cable and satellite systems as part of their ongoing relationship now that Comcast merged with NBC/Universal.

*A Network head has not be named but WWE is looking for someone with reality TV experience.

*There is talk, "according to sources", of sports team programming on the Network as part of the programming aspect that would reach outside of wrestling content.

*Sucherman Consulting Group are working with WWE to help staff 200 positions for the Network.

*WWE's Michelle Wilson would not comment on any carriage or advertising commitments, citing that they were still in negotiations.

*"Most" of WWE's PPV programming would migrate to the network, although that doesn't specify whether they would air live or be replays that ran after the PPV broadcast.

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