WWE CEO Nick Khan said Wednesday the company isn’t imapcted by the WGA strike that started yesterday. “Our writers are not members of the guild, so there is no effect on us whatsoever.
Of course we are supportive of the writers who are members of the guild and their efforts, and we are hopeful a deal can be reached between them and the other side in short order,” he said on a call after quarterly results that focused on key rights renewals and WWE’s upcoming merger with Endeavor/UFC.
It’s earnings season and as numbers for the March quarter have been trickling out, World Wrestling Entertainment is the first to report after the latest contract between writers and producers expired at midnight Monday without a new deal.
In a walkout that is already having ripples across media and entertainment, writers began picketing in New York and LA yesterday.
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