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This is TKO related...
UFC and WWE just traded places price wise for the most part... WWE went behind the ESPN pay wall, and UFC went behind the much cheaper (and PPV free) Paramount+ paywall (with some CBS network shows) which a lot of Americans get as part of their Walmart+ sub. Anyway, this deal for UFC of 7.7 Billion over 7 years is good for TKO's greed, but just drives home my belief that TKO is out to block other companies from getting on TV, by spreading out this way and with rumored exclusivity clauses, it just knocks out most remaining TV channels for other people.
PLE's on ESPN - (ABC, FX, FXX, Vice, Disney, History, NatGeo, and many of others in part or fully.)
SmackDown on USA - (USA, Syfy, Bravo, Oxygen, E!, Telemundo, Golf Channel, CNBC, Universo, has a stake in VOX)
RAW on Netflix - Netflix the #1 Streamer worldwide
NXT - The CW and it's affiliates
EVOLVE - (FOX, Tubi, FS1, Fox Sports Networks, Faux News)
UFC - CBS/Paramount (Viacom) Networks (CMT, Comedy Central, Flix, Logo TV, MTV, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Paramount Network, Pop TV, Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, TeenNick, The Movie Channel, TV Land, VH1, CBS Sports, etc)
Looking through the DTV Streaming package, there is very little not owned by these networks. I'm not saying it's a monopoly, but holy shit it's clear, in my opinion, that's what they are after.
That leaves Turner(AEW), Amazon Prime, most of the B tier channels TNA has been on over the years, and local independent stations (where wrestling has traditionally been).
Who owns Vice?
Funny enough, the TNA channels are all owned by the other companies these days, Spike and Pop TV are Paramount channels, Destination America is owned by WB Discovery (Turner), Pursuit Channel is partially owned by Anthem, TNA's parent company.
Vice is a joint venture between Disney and Hearst Media Corp.
There's really very little left out there.
if you really want to scare the worst types of people, let them know that vice media was founded by gavin mcinnes, driven into bankruptcy, and is now part owned by george soros.
What about Pursuit channel. ;-)