--- description: World Wrestling Entertainment’s new digital network has gotten off to a quick start. The company announced this morning that the online streaming channel has 667,287... title: WWE Online Network Is Already Body-Slamming Tons of Subscribers image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97914991d6c3ab47/69868947cd684860fd093fbe/481902023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # WWE Online Network Is Already Body-Slamming Tons of Subscribers by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 7, 2014 3:20 PM CUT  <> at the Hard Rock Cafe New York on April 1, 2014 in New York City. <> at the Hard Rock Cafe New York on April 1, 2014 in New York City.Dimitrios Kambouris—Getty Images by [Victor Luckerson](/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 7, 2014 3:20 PM CUT World Wrestling Entertainment’s new digital network has gotten off to a quick start. The company announced this morning that the online streaming channel has 667,287 subscribers just six weeks after launching in the United States. The new channel offers live-streaming of all the WWE’s popular pay-per-view events, including WrestleMania, as well as archival footage of classic matches and original programming, for $9.99 per month. The company is aiming to get 1 million subscribers by the end of 2014\. It will need a large customer base to make up for an expected decline in revenue from televised pay-per-view events, which totaled $82.5 million in 2013\. Dish Network has already dropped one of the company’s pay-per-view programs because of the WWE’s defection to the Internet. Notably, the WWE’s weekly shows Raw and Smackdown remain on cable for now. The company is currently [shopping](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-wwe-nbc-20140218,0,4558858.story#axzz2yDEOlPzI "undefined") the popular programs around to various television networks. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/51882/wwe-online-network-is-already-body-slamming-tons-of-subscribers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/51882/wwe-online-network-is-already-body-slamming-tons-of-subscribers/"},"headline":"WWE Online Network Is Already Body-Slamming Tons of Subscribers","datePublished":"2014-04-07T15:20:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:10:13.796Z","description":"World Wrestling Entertainment’s new digital network has gotten off to a quick start. The company announced this morning that the online streaming channel has 667,287...","url":"https://time.com/51882/wwe-online-network-is-already-body-slamming-tons-of-subscribers/","keywords":["WWE","Television","wrestling"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97914991d6c3ab47/69868947cd684860fd093fbe/481902023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Victor Luckerson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97914991d6c3ab47/69868947cd684860fd093fbe/481902023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"WrestleMania 30 Press Conference","caption":"WrestleMania 30 Press Conference","creditText":"Dimitrios Kambouris—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/51882/wwe-online-network-is-already-body-slamming-tons-of-subscribers/","name":"WWE Online Network Is Already Body-Slamming Tons of Subscribers"}}]}] ```