WWE's flagship wrestling program 'Raw' will exclusively stream on Netflix starting Monday, marking a significant shift for both the wrestling industry and the streaming platform.
World Wrestling Entertainment , better known as WWE , has survived scandal, controversy and seismic shifts in the media business. Next week, the pro wrestling franchise enters yet another new arena: Netflix . Starting Monday at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, WWE 's popular weekly wrestling program ' Raw ' will stream exclusively on the streaming giant in the U.S., marking the first time in more than 30 years that it will not broadcast on linear TV.
For Netflix, it's the latest in a series of moves to grow the streamer's live TV business in an effort to increase viewership, subscribers and advertising dollars. For WWE, it's a chance to gain a massive global audience. WWE Chief Content Officer Paul 'Triple H' Levesque, himself a former pro wrestler, said the move to Netflix — with its 283 million global subscribers — is a 'game changer' for the franchise. 'The reach and how much that can expand our base ... when you look at shows they do and the freedom that they have within that, it is a game changer for us,' Levesque said at a media event last month in Hollywood. '... This, at the end of it, is going to be called the Netflix era, because that's where the big change is.' First launched in 1993, 'Raw' was one of the first wrestling programs on TV and cable TV that led to boom periods for the genre, said David Meltzer, a wrestling historian, the editor and publisher of Wrestling Observer Newsletter and longtime chronicler of the WWE. 'Raw,' is known for producing larger-than-life characters like Hulk Hogan and soap opera-like storylines. Many careers of prominent wrestlers like the Rock (Dwayne Johnson), Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin launched during the 'Attitude Era,' which ran from the late '90s to early 2000s. Some of the biggest stars, such as Johnson and John Cena, found success outside of the ring in movies and T
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