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The WWE has signed an agreement with Peacock that will bring exclusive U.S. rights to the WWE Network to NBCUniveral’s streaming service starting March 18. Terms for the multi-year deal were not disclosed, but a person familiar with the arrangement pegged it at about $1 billion. The WWE Network’s 17,000-hour lineup of…

The WWE will bid adieu to a legend later this month, as it announced that Undertaker's Final Farewell will take place at Survivor Series on Sunday, November 22 at 7 pm ET on the WWE Network. The streaming series will cap a 30-year career for the wrestler. Undertaker made his WWE debut at Survivor Series on November…

World Wrestling Entertainment has named former Etsy CFO Kristina Salen as chief financial officer reporting to chairman-CEO Vince McMahon effective August 3. Salen was Etsy’s first chief financial officer, helping to scale the business leading the online craft marketplace’s IPO in 2017. She was CFO and chief operating…

World Wrestling Entertainment, which forged an early path in subscription streaming by launching the WWE Network in 2014, has introduced a free version of the service with 15,000 hours of programming. Weekly show Raw Talk will join the streaming lineup following broadcasts of Monday Night Raw. Recent episodes of Raw, F…

World Wrestling Entertainment shares were body slammed today after investors overlooked stronger-than-expected Q3 earnings and focused instead of disappointing guidance for Q4 and 2016. The stock is down 12.6% in afternoon trading. That’s a blow, but far from a knockout considering that the company’s up 43.7% so far…

Investors thought they’d see this milestone earlier, but they appear grateful at its indication that the slow-growing service hasn’t stalled. WWE shares rocketed 15% in afternoon trading after it announced that its subscription streaming service signed its 1 millionth customer. That’s up 37% globally and 24%…

The wrestling company’s stock price was pummeled today after two market watchers — including CNBC’s Jim Cramer — urged investors to bail out, and fans had mixed reactions to Sunday’s Night Of Champions pay-per-view event. Cramer <a…

The company that sensationalizes pain seemed to feel a lot of it in Q2: The bold $9.99 a month streaming video venture that World Wrestling Entertainment launched in February only had 700,000 subscribers at the end of June, it says today. That’s half of the 1.4M that the company said in May it needs to offset lost pay…

Talk about a smack down: WWE shares tumbled about 44% this morning after the company disclosed disappointing terms for its new TV agreement — and laid out the potential risk of continuing losses as its new $9.99-a-month WWE Network online video service cannibalizes its pay-per-view business. The entertainment company…

The stock price is down more than 20% in early trading after the company said that its new online video channel has 667,287 subs — not including “potential failures to comply with subscription terms.” Still, WWE Network is “well on its way to reaching its goal” of 1M subs by year end, the company says. Many investors…

UPDATE, 1:01 PM: People who want to subscribe to WWE Network should be able to do so now that the company’s technology partner, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, has worked through the launch-day crush. Demand for subscriptions “exceeded anything we have seen in 14 years of doing e-commerce,” MLBAM says. Related:…

The new year has barely started, yet I already have a candidate for the eventual list of 2014’s most influential media execs: MLB Advanced Media CEO Bob Bowman. His sports-focused streaming video and Internet operation is poised to become an entertainment power following the announcements at International CES this…