We are in a new, interesting era for Netflix in that it is pursuing more and more live content like traditional TV. Easily the biggest investment in this era is a decade-long partnership with the WWE where Netflix paid reportedly $5 billion for the broadcast rights of Monday Night RAW, the brand’s highest profile live program.

Shares of Netflix soared 12% in early trading on Wednesday, just hours after the streaming giant announced price increases set to impact all of the company’s U.S. subscribers. The standard monthly subscription without advertisements will climb from $15.

The first episode of World Wrestling Entertainment’s “Monday Night RAW” on Netflix had 4.9 million views globally and averaged 2.6 million households in the U.S.

The first-ever live streaming of WWE’s Monday Night Raw on Netflix attracted an impressive 4.9 million global views, according to Live+1 data from the platform. Views were calculated as total hours watched divided by the program’s runtime and came from regions including the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Latin America.

Raw’s debut on Netflix took place in the Los Angeles Intuit Dome and set a company record as the highest-grossing WWE arena event of all time. The sold out crowd in LA also set a record for the highest-grossing non-Premium Live Event of all time in merchandise sales.

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