8 Big Questions About HUGE NBC Peacock/WWE Network Deal
5. The International Fate Of The WWE Network...
...will apparently remain unchanged. But for how long?
When the Network launched in 2014, a major market was left out in the cold. The United Kingdom was eventually satiated later in the year (and even more so by NXT's 2015 tour and TakeOver), but it'll now serve as the largest market with what will surely become known as the "original" or "classic" version of the streaming service.
American audiences have just had their Network fee slashed in half, but it's unlikely discounts will be forthcoming for international markets. Furthermore, if Peacock eventually has final say on output, the service may have to change with it.
The current corporate releases note no changes outside of the United States, but this is the easiest news to deliver in a time of seismic shifts. No changes right now means nothing in a year or two when WWE's latest billion dollar deal dictates so much of what they do in the way SmackDown's does right now.
This also works under the assumption that Peacock never broadens its reach. It'd be hard to justify the continuation of any version of the Network existing if the NBCU property went global too.