-A caller asked about the budget for films and new WWE Network programming. He mentioned roughly $20 million for films, but they did not give guidance for the network programming fee. He said it will probably be “pretty similar” to what they’ve done thus far.
-The caller asked about WWE Network advertising revenues. Barrios said they did not publish those numbers.
-Another caller asked about network growth from new devices such as Roku. Barrios said he thinks there’s more room there, but he thinks it’s “fairly well penetrated in the U.S.”
-A caller asked Vince McMahon about “the Twitter controversy” for #CancelWWENetwork and whether that was good for WWE in that it spreads the word about the network or bad that people listen to “super fans.” Vince said it’s good for WWE. Vince said the vocal minority didn’t like the creative. “Santa Claus didn’t come for that pay-per-view, so that’s really what that was for them,” McMahon said. He added that people who vent when the babyface doesn’t win and say they will never be back are usually back the next week.
-A caller asked about a WWE radio show on Sirius to help spread the word about the network. Barrios said there are about a hundred ways to promote that they are thinking about. He said the example used is one of the ways that has been talked about.
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
