Last Updated on: 18th December 2024, 03:56 pm
TV Channel Update: WWE Network
We want to let you know that effective December 31, 2024, the broadcaster of WWE Network will be moving this content to Netflix, and it will no longer be available as an add-on with your TV package. Since you subscribe to WWE Network as a separate monthly service, it will be removed, and you will no longer be charged as of this date.
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The Canadian experience was more costly and substandard (especially on the streaming side) than it was in America, but it was cool having WWE Network as a TV station for the last 10 years. I had a lot of fun flipping to it on a lazy weekend or late at night when I was having trouble sleeping and landing on a random show from 40 years ago. For me, that turned out to be an even bigger draw than getting all the PPVs for no extra cost. that ruled, but deep down I think I knew that that was never going to last. That it’s lasted as long as it has is a minor miracle. I always kind of assumed that eventually they would pull Wrestlemania and perhaps Summerslam and Royal Rumble out and start selling them separately, but they never did. Thanks, guys. that’s actually a pretty cool thing for a money hungry corporation to do.
We have Netflix here since Carin got it years ago so that she could watch Black Mirror or something and then never got rid of it, so I can follow it there, but it’s not going to be the same. I still like my TV to be on TV, especially when I’m tired.
But what really isn’t going to be the same isn’t mentioned in that blurb. It’s not just the Network that’s moving to Netflix in Canada come January. It’s everything. Raw, Smackdown, NXT. For the first time in my lifetime, WWE will be completely off of TV in Canada. And let me tell you something, I am reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaly, reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaly not looking forward to it. I’m not looking forward to explaining to my uncle and elderly grandparents that they still live juuuuuust out of the way of the good internet service so they can’t watch wrestling anymore. And I’m especially not looking forward to having to break it to my dad that one of the few enjoyable things left in his life is suddenly going to disappear. the man can barely use his flip phone properly or write a coherent grocery list at this point. He ain’t paying for internet or figuring out how to work Netflix.
I know times change and all, but this is actually pretty shitty.
That sure took a turn, didn’t it?
Anyway, if you turn on your TV one day and wonder where all the wrestling went, now you know.