WWE has released the cold open video package that will kick off the Netflix premiere of Monday Night Raw. The visually captivating cold open features narration by WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H and showcases clips of several top WWE stars.
The newly released video package, which will play at the beginning of the episode, provides a powerful introduction to wrestling, making it an ideal starting point for viewers unfamiliar with moves like Dragon Sleepers or DDTs.
Triple H Reveals WWE Raw’s Streaming Strategy on Netflix
The Chief Content Officer discussed Netflix ads and the importance of the show’s breaks. He said “Look, [laughs], my guess on their part would be money is part of this. They’re paying us a lot of money. They’re in the business of making money, so they’ve got to have ad times and they’ve fit to sell things, even though it’s a subscription product. There’s other factors that go into that for them.”
“For us, to some degree, it’s a funny thing. Sometimes, they tell us, for whatever reason, ‘Hey, you can have the entire first hour commercial-free.’ I know that nobody out there that watches the show, unless they do television, will understand this because they hear this and think, ‘That’s the most ridiculous thing ever.’ Commercial-free live television is incredibly difficult. People don’t understand that.”
Triple H further added, “To be able to go from, this match ends, you gotta get them out of the arena, you gotta go backstage, you gotta go to this other stuff, you gotta be ready to go on every single thing, in real time, in that moment. If something crashes, if somebody gets injured, there’s no place to go. There’s no commercial to go to. There’s no, ‘Hey, we can go to this.’ You can only go to so many backstage segments. If they’re not ready to go, something happens and you gotta get out in the ring, if no one’s ready to go, ‘Alright, just run a package or something.’ It’s incredibly difficult to do. So having those breaks in there to some degree is helpful.”
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