8 Niche TV Streaming Networks That You Didn't Know Existed

Focus – TNA Wrestling

It has had its up and downs, but five years after its launch few can deny that the WWE Network has been a success, having picked up more than two million subscribers in the 186/193 countries of the world in which it is available. At $9.99 (or the equivalent in local currencies) per month a pop, it might not seem as financially viable as the company’s previous strategy to sell each pay-per-view on an individual basis, but it provides a home for the hundreds of thousands of hours of content that the promotion has accumulated throughout its six decade existence.

Almost every ‘major’ competing promotion has followed suit in the years since, despite having much smaller archives to rely on. New Japan World makes sense given that it is one of the few companies that can claim to be more popular that Vince McMahon’s behemoth in certain areas of the world, but the likes of Chikaratopia and CZW Studios are surely only attracting true diehards. Joining something such as WWNLive (which covers multiple independent promotions) seems more logical for these.

It’s a running joke in wrestling that TNA always ends up trying to be a WWE clone rather than something unique. It should therefore be no surprise to hear that they launched the Global Wrestling Network in 2017, bizarrely without several years of weekly Impact programming from when the company actually were a palatable alternative to the market leader.

Will an All Elite network be next?