LONDON ENGLAND June 20 2019 – WWE® (NYSE: WWE) and BT Sport today announced a new multi-year exclusive pay TV agreement that will make WWE’s weekly flagship programming available live in the U.K. and Ireland on BT Sport beginning January 2020.

BT Sport will air both Raw and SmackDown exclusively live every week delivering edge-of-your-seat action and showcasing the world-class athleticism from global Superstars including Roman Reigns Becky Lynch Seth Rollins Kofi Kingston and Charlotte Flair. WWE and BT Sport will also partner across digital and social media platforms to create new content for fans that will increase reach for WWE and drive engagement across the UK and Ireland.

“We are incredibly excited by our new partnership with WWE. It is the most successful sports entertainment brand in the world with a rich fun and colorful history loved by fans across the UK and Ireland. This is a brilliant addition for our customers and we can’t wait to get going in January ” said Andy Haworth Managing Director Content and Strategy BT Consumer.

“We are pleased to begin an exciting new chapter for WWE in the region as we join BT Sport’s innovative offering and impressive portfolio of premium sports content ” said Stefan Kastenmüller WWE Senior Vice President & Group General Manager EMEA.

WWE’s monthly pay-per-view events including WrestleMania® will be available on BT Sport Box Office. BT Sport will also carry same day primetime re-airs of Raw on Tuesdays and SmackDown on Saturdays a two-hour version of Raw one-hour version of Raw and one-hour version of SmackDown across its portfolio of channels.

BT Sport is home to the Premier League UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League Gallagher Premiership Rugby MotoGP and UFC.

About BT Sport

Launched in 2013 BT Sport broadcasts in the UK and Republic of Ireland with around five million subscribers. BT Sport offers five linear TV channels BT Sport 1 BT Sport 2 BT Sport 3 BT Sport ESPN BT Sport 4K UHD six interactive BT Sport Extra channels and is available on BT TV Sky Virgin and Talk Talk. BT Sport is also available online and via the App on mobile and large screen devices and operates pay per view channel BT Sport Box Office. BT Sport has a track record of innovation operating from one of industry’s most sophisticated sports TV studios and delivering world-firsts around Virtual Reality Dolby Atmos 4K UHD and remote production. Its achievements have been recognized with awards from IBC Promax Music Week and more.

As well as being the sole UK rights holder for all of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League BT Sport offers live sport programming including the English Premier League Emirates FA Cup Scottish Premiership Boxing FA WSL Gallagher Premiership Rugby Heineken Champions Cup MotoGP and WTA.

BT’s purpose is to use the power of communications to make a better world. It is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services and solutions serving customers in 180 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local national and international telecommunications services to its customers for use at home at work and on the move; broadband TV and internet products and services; and converged fixed-mobile products and services. BT consists of four customer-facing units: Consumer Enterprise Global Services and Openreach.

For the year ended 31 March 2019 BT Group’s reported revenue was £23 428m with reported profit before taxation of £2 666m.

British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.

For more information visit www.btplc.com

About WWE

WWE a publicly traded company (NYSE: WWE) is an integrated media organization and recognized leader in global entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family friendly entertainment on its television programming pay-per-view digital media and publishing platforms. WWE’s TV-PG family-friendly programming can be seen in more than 800 million homes worldwide in 28 languages. WWE Network the first-ever 24/7 over-the-top premium network that includes all live pay-per-views scheduled programming and a massive video-on-demand library is currently available in more than 180 countries. The company is headquartered in Stamford Conn. with offices in New York Los Angeles London Mexico City Mumbai Shanghai Singapore Dubai Munich and Tokyo.

Additional information on WWE (NYSE: WWE) can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com. For information on our global activities go to http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/.

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Forward-Looking Statements:   This press release contains forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 which are subject to various risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include without limitation risks relating to: WWE Network; major distribution agreements; our need to continue to develop creative and entertaining programs and events; a decline in the popularity of our brand of sports entertainment; the continued importance of key performers and the services of Vincent K. McMahon; possible adverse changes in the regulatory atmosphere and related private sector initiatives; the highly competitive rapidly changing and increasingly fragmented nature of the markets in which we operate and greater financial resources or marketplace presence of many of our competitors; uncertainties associated with international markets; our difficulty or inability to promote and conduct our live events and/or other businesses if we do not comply with applicable regulations; our dependence on our intellectual property rights our need to protect those rights and the risks of our infringement of others’ intellectual property rights; the complexity of our rights agreements across distribution mechanisms and geographical areas; potential substantial liability in the event of accidents or injuries occurring during our physically demanding events including without limitation claims relating to CTE; large public events as well as travel to and from such events; our feature film business; our expansion into new or complementary businesses and/or strategic investments; our computer systems and online operations; a possible decline in general economic conditions and disruption in financial markets; our accounts receivable; our revolving credit facility; litigation; our potential failure to meet market expectations for our financial performance which could adversely affect our stock; Vincent K. McMahon exercising control over our affairs and his interests may conflict with the holders of our Class A common stock; a substantial number of shares which are eligible for sale by the McMahons and the sale or the perception of possible sales of those shares could lower our stock price; and the relatively small public “float” of our Class A common stock. In addition our dividend is dependent on a number of factors including among other things our liquidity and cash flow strategic plan (including alternative uses of capital) our financial results and condition contractual and legal restrictions on the payment of dividends (including under our revolving credit facility) general economic and competitive conditions and such other factors as our Board of Directors may consider relevant. Forward-looking statements made by the Company speak only as of the date made are subject to change without any obligation on the part of the Company to update or revise them and undue reliance should not be placed on these statements.

Media Contacts:

WWE
Joe Quinn 
+44 (0) 20 7349 1757
Joe.Quinn@wwecorp.com

BT Sport
btsport@pitch.co.uk

Investor Contact: 
Michael Weitz
203-352-8642
Michael.Weitz@wwecorp.com