WWE sent out the
following today…
RECORD 1 MILLION U.S. HOUSEHOLDS WATCH
WRESTLEMANIA®
STAMFORD, Conn., April 15, 2014 – WWE® (NYSE:
WWE) today announced that WrestleMania 30 reached a record 1 million households
in the U.S. alone on WWE Network and pay-per-view combined, the first time
WrestleMania has eclipsed this mark domestically. With more than 667,000 WWE
Network subscribers in the U.S. and nearly 400,000 domestic pay-per-view buying
homes for WrestleMania 30, WWE is confident that it will reach its goal of 1
million subscribers by the end of 2014.
WWE Network launched on February
24 in the U.S. and successfully streamed six hours of live coverage of
WrestleMania 30 on Sunday, April 6. Additionally, more than 7.1 million hours of
video content was viewed on WWE Network during WrestleMania Week from Tuesday,
April 1 through Tuesday, April 8.
WWE Network will be rolled out in
Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Nordics
in late 2014/early 2015.
