TKO CEO Ari Emanuel appeared on The Pat McAfee Show to discuss various topics, including how the initial talks he had with Netflix were about WWE NXT and not WWE RAW.
Emanuel said, “I had a breakfast with Bella [Bajaria, the Netflix Chief Content Officer]. She runs all of content programming underneath [Netflix CEO] Ted Sarandos at Netflix. We did a presentation to her, and all of a sudden, we first started talking about NXT, and it immediately moved to RAW. Over Christmas a year and a half ago, we’re on Zoom, it’s all approved, we have to have a conversation with Ted Sarandos, he’s in London seeing Stranger Things play. We get on Zoom, [Mark] Shapiro and I, he’s with his CFO, it all gets done, we hang up the phone, we do a jig.”
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(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
