WWE Network
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| Launched | February 24, 2014 United States August 12, 2014 220 countries January 13, 2015 United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and Italy March 24, 2015 Middle East and India November 2, 2015 North Africa January 5, 2016 Japan, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland March 1, 2016 Thailand and Philippines |
| Owned by | WWE |
| Picture format | HDTV (1080i 16:9) |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Middle East, Nepal, New Zealand, North Africa, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States |
| Headquarters | Stamford, Connecticut, United States |
| Website | www |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| Astro (Malaysia) | Channel 820 (SD) Channel 840 (HD) |
| NJOI (Malaysia) | Channel 820 (via NJOI Prepaid) |
| OSN (Middle East & North Africa) | Channel 610 (HD) |
| IPTV | |
| Singtel TV (Singapore) | Channel 127 (HD) (Coming soon) |
WWE Network is a subscription-based video streaming service owned by WWE, using the infrastructure of Major League Baseball Advanced Media. The concept was originally announced in 2011. On January 8, 2014, WWE announced the network would launch on February 24 in the United States. The company stated on July 31 that the service was expected to go live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico, Middle East, Spain, Turkey, the Nordics, and North Africa, among other countries starting on August 17. It was unexpectedly made available in the UK and Ireland a week earlier than planned, on January 13, 2015, after a delay from the previous November. The WWE Network consists of both a 24-hour linear streaming channel and on-demand programming from WWE's library.
In September 2011, WWE officially announced plans to launch the WWE Network in 2011 as a pay-TV channel. WWE then conducted a survey asking people if they would pay for the WWE Network if it were a premium channel. In an email sent to WWE fans who might be interested in the WWE Network, WWE surveyed fans for their thoughts about the WWE Network airing WWE's pay-per-views to subscribers for no additional charge. The survey also noted that feature repeats of Raw and SmackDown, as well as footage from World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), XFL, Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW), American Wrestling Association (AWA), and WWE movies would also make the lineup. Original programming was also noted in the survey.
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