WWE News: Main Event pre-empted next week

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Tuesday, 13 January 2015 17:40


It was just announced that due to contractual commitments that Main Event would not be airing next week, and instead there would be a Royal Rumble special hosted by Santino Marella.

According to sources, the situation is that with the launch of the network in the U.S. this week, Sky holds exclusive rights to Main Event in the U.K. market. So unless WWE creates a separate U.K. feed without Main Event, they won't be able to put the show on the network, unless they strike a deal with Sky.

The hope is that with two weeks until the planned 1/27 show that they can work the issue out.

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It will be interesting to see what happens if they don't get this worked out.

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Update:

Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:33


It doesn't appear WWE Main Event will be back on the network for several months.

Sources close to the situation indicate the contract issue between WWE and Sky Sports doesn't at this time look like it will be resolved any time soon, so until the network has geoblocking put in, where Main Event could air in the rest of the world but not in the U.K. market, it contractually is not able to air on the WWE Network.

The current time frame appears to be late summer or early fall for geoblocking to be put into place and the expectation would be that Main Event would return to the WWE Network at that time.

The show will continue to be taped due to international broadcast commitments but it would have no television home in the United States, but will remain available on Hulu.