Stephanie McMahon & George Barrios Talk Network Expectations, More

Yesterday, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon and WWE Chief Financial Officer George A. Barrios participated in a presentation at the 17th Annual Needham Growth Conference for investors. You can listen to the call here. Here are some highlights…

* At this time, WWE Monday Night RAW averages 4.6 million viewers a week while WWE SmackDown averages 3.0 million.

* WWE Television rights fees have increased from $78 million in 2004 to $171 million as of September 2014.

* The company has TV deals through 2018 and the annual revenue will increase nearly $100 million by 2018.

* WWE Network is looking into launching the WWE Network in Italy, Germany, India, Japan, China, Thailand, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates in the next few years.

* They estimate that there are 98 million “WWE broadband homes”. They are looking to turn 3-4% of them to Network subscribers, which would give them between 3 and 4 million subscribers.

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