WWE® completes exclusive pay TV deal with OSN

Press release
Published July 23rd, 2014 - 05:15 GMT

Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

WWE and OSN today announced that WWE's flagship television program Monday Night Raw will now air live on OSN, WWE’s exclusive pay TV partner in the Middle East and North Africa through 2019. OSN is the leading pay TV platform in the Middle East and North Africa and offers the largest selection of international entertainment and sports content in the region. 

Under this new agreement, fans can now enjoy all of WWE’s programming, including Raw, SmackDown, NXT  and Main Event, as well as WWE pay-per-view events including WrestleMania® and SummerSlam®, in one place on OSN Sports 2 HD.  

OSN subscribers can also watch all the action anytime, anywhere on their smartphone, tablet or laptop with OSN Play, the region’s first online viewing platform, where OSN Sports 2 HD is streamed live and via ‘OSN on Demand’. 

“OSN and WWE have a long standing relationship and we are very excited to be taking that to the next level,” said Andy Warkman, OSN’s VP of Sport & Production. “For the first time in the region, all core WWE programming will be available in one place, making OSN the home of WWE, reaching an audience across more than 20 countries. This deal furthers our commitment to bringing our customers the best content.” 

“WWE is very excited to be extending and expanding its deal with OSN in the Middle East,” said Carlo Nohra, General Manager of WWE Middle East. “OSN hosts some of the very best international entertainment and sports programming and is the perfect home for WWE programming. Together with OSN, we will continue to grow our TV, pay-per-view, live event and consumer products businesses across the Middle East.”

Background Information

OSN

OSN is the ultimate destination for the widest choice of brand new premium Western, Arabic, South Asian (Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Tamil) and Filipino entertainment in the Middle East and Africa. 

OSN is the home of nearly 140 channels filled with great value entertainment, offering viewers in the MENA region exclusive access to the latest blockbuster movies, top rated series, sports, documentaries, news, kid’s entertainment and live talk shows. The movie offering includes over a 100 uncut and uninterrupted movie premieres a month so viewers can watch them the way they were meant to be watched.

 

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