By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor WrestleMania 32 was a monster event for WWE’s Live Event Revenue, helping offset declines in domestic live event attendance. For the first six months of 2016, WWE reported Live […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor The Churn. It’s the key to WWE’s Network business after reaching the break-even point last year. WWE reported the latest churn figures in their Second Quarter 2016 financial report, […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor WWE stopped reporting individual PPV buy figures earlier this year, but the company is still collecting PPV Revenue despite the expansion of WWE Network. Within the “WWE Network” business […]
July 28 Update: WWE confirmed Thursday that it has acquired one of the buildings in Stamford, Conn. that was placed up for bid in an auction when a real estate developer filed for bankruptcy. In June, the […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor WWE’s Second Quarter 2016 quarterly conference call went much shorter than recent calls that included multiple Network-related questions. This quarter’s call was divided between Network trends, the brand extension […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor WWE is now open to listening to a pitch on buying the company, WWE management revealed in the latest quarterly conference call on Thursday. During the Q&A portion of […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor With WrestleMania 31 occurring in First Quarter 2015 and WM32 occurring in Second Quarter 2016, a look at the first six months of both years is the best comparison […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor Full Second Quarter 2016 Revenue / Profit Break Down WWE’s WrestleMania 32 event helped produce $199.0 total revenue in the Second Quarter 2016, but it also ate away at […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor WWE reported their latest WWE Network subscriber count as part of the Second Quarter 2016 financial report released Thursday. The total number of paid subscribers at the end of […]
WWE’s WrestleMania 32 event produced $29.4 million in revenue contributing to the Second Quarter 2016 financial results. Last year, WrestleMania 31 contributed $24.9 million to First Quarter 2015 revenue. However, WM32 was so expensive to produce that […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor WWE reported Second Quarter 2016 revenue of $199.0 million, a record for the company. Concerning last year’s WrestleMania quarter, WWE reported then-record quarterly revenue of $176.2 million in First Quarter […]
WWE aired the third set of matches from the Cruiserweight tournament Wednesday night on WWE Network. Zack Sabre, Jr. beat Tyson Dux Drew Gulak beat Harv Sihra Tony Nese beat Anthony Bennett Brian Kendrick beat Raul Mendoza The […]
WWE has set two big matches for “NXT Takeover: Brooklyn” the night before Summerslam. Announced on the July 27 NXT episode for the August 20 Takeover special is Samoa Joe vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the […]
WWE Stock Track 2016 Week 28 – July 25-29 – Wednesday, July 27: Closing Price of $19.74 per share, down slightly from Tuesday. The stock did not reach $20 on Wednesday, ranging between $19.37 and $19.85. Now, WWE […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor It was the start of a new era for Smackdown following last week’s Live Smackdown/Draft Special that gave way to the first official week of Smackdown having its own […]
By Wade Keller, PWTorch editor Last night’s WWE Smackdown Live on USA Network drew a 1.92 rating and viewership of 2.743 million viewers. This is down from last week’s 2.20 rating and down 447,000 viewers. […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor The first official Smackdown Live episode of the new era got off to a slow start in social media activity Tuesday night. WWE Smackdown Social Media Tracking July 26: Smackdown […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor WWE has determined World Hvt. champion Dean Ambrose’s title opponent at the Summerslam PPV on August 21. Ambrose will defend the WWE Title against … Dolph Ziggler. Ziggler who […]
Randy Orton wrestled his first match of the year Tuesday night on Smackdown Live. Orton, who had been out of the ring for nine months recovering from a major shoulder injury, defeated Intercontinental champion The […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor One of the former WWE stars rumored to be coming back to WWE was confirmed Tuesday night on Smackdown Live. Shelton Benjamin, the former U.S. and Intercontinental champion, will be […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor WWE is officially bringing back Backlash as a Smackdown brand Sunday night PPV. The event will be Sunday, September 11 on WWE Network from Richmond, Virginia. WWE has not […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor WWE has confirmed that Brock Lesnar will not be suspended for his UFC 200 drug-testing violations while under contract with WWE. TMZ reported a statement from WWE that only full-time […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor The first Raw of a new era increased to the highest rating since last month’s post-PPV episode. WWE Raw TV Ratings Tracking July 25: Monday’s Raw to kick off a […]
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor WWE Draft Week was about as even as it gets in terms of viewing audiences for the July 18 Raw and the July 19 live Smackdown/WWE Draft back-to-back nights on […]
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