RAW moving to Netflix in 2025

Hey, I said WWE is getting paid no matter what. Cable isn't going anywhere for a long time. If ratings truly mattered they'll simply look at the data and see if more or less are watching via Netflix and adjust. But, they don't care that much. The only ones that make an issue of it are dirtsheets and the IWC. I have Netflix so I can watch whichever PP ... excuse me, PLE I want. Won't watch RAW. And I can cancel Peacock. The one thing Netflix does need to do though is make sure it can handle Live streaming. They've tried it some in 2023. But they better make sure there are no issues. People ragged on Peacock during PP ... damn it, PLEs all the time.

I never understood how ratings work. I've never met one person with any association to Nielsen

They have a sample of households across the US that they deem to be representative of the country as a whole. Those households used to have to fill in diaries of what they watched, but now they log it via an app. There are about 40000 Nielsen households, which is about one out of every 3000 homes in the US.

So every real Nielsen household that watches a TV show is multiplied by approximately 3000 and they say that’s how many people watched the show. A show with “a million viewers” means, in real terms, about 333 Nielsen homes watched it.

I imagine it’ll be like NxT when it was Network exclusive just longer. I’m excited. I haven’t had cable in over 15 years. Watch on Hulu and Peacock mostly anyways.

I wonder as well this should improve live taping experiences. So awkward when someone makes an entrance and stands there while promo packages play and their theme looping…

Agreed.

$#!+flix original programming that have gotten/will get better ratings than Raw:

Marco Polo
Sex/Life
Partner Track
Bling Empire
Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father
Emily in Paris
That 90s Show
Cobra Kai

Doubtful. WWE’s PG rating has a lot to do with the Mattel deal, if I remember correctly.

Only thing we can be sure of is that this streaming thing will never take off and the Fed is truly dead this time.

I could see this being a way that many lapsed WWE fans end up getting back into the product. Even though this is a year away, it is really exciting news. I legit do not see any negatives with this at all.

I use Netflix on a 4K fire stick, a PS5, a tablet and other devices I even used it on my Xbox 360 back in the day and I have never had a problem with the streaming quality. I guess the true test will be live streaming and how they handle that.