WWE Home Video
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| Industry | Biography, tape library |
| Founded | April 16, 1997 |
| Headquarters | Stamford, Connecticut, United States |
| Parent | WWE |
WWE Home Video is a video distribution and production company that distributes WWE programming, now run by Warner Home Video. A division of WWE formed in April 16, 1997 as WWF Home Video, it replaced a similar independent company owned by Evart Enterprises, Coliseum Video, which operated between 1985 and 1997.
WWE ceased distribution of WWE Home Video titles at the end of December 31, 2014 when Warner Home Video took over distribution of WWE titles. The new deal will also see future DVD releases of the defunct World Championship Wrestling, which was previously owned by Time Warner and sold to WWE in 2001.
VHS and Betamax cassettes released by Coliseum generally fell into several categories:
Coliseum Video also released videos on the two World Bodybuilding Federation events.
Coliseum Video also released two non-wrestling videos: One on the New York Giants & one on Wayne Gretzky.
Upon the folding of Coliseum Video, videos that were being or had been released by Coliseum Video were re-released with new packaging and the WWF Home Video name and logo in 1997. When the WWF became WWE in 2002, the name of the home video subsidiary changed as well. Content released by WWE Home Video continues to release the same content as Coliseum did, and also releases content produced exclusively for home entertainment such as swimsuit videos and retrospective documentaries. Content from the World Wrestling Federation's "Attitude Era" (1998–2002), however, had to be edited due to the lawsuit that caused the WWF to become WWE. All WWF "scratch" logos and references to the initials WWF had to be blurred or edited out. However, the words "World Wrestling Federation" were not edited, and the old WWF logo was not blurred. In addition, the UK exclusive WWE Tagged Classics did not have any edits or censoring of the WWF initials. Some of the early WWE home video releases were also not edited (such as The Rock Just Bring It). Some of the videos/DVD's in question were just renamed with the WWE logo.
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