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STEPHANIE MCMAHON SAYS REPLACING VINCE MCMAHON WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE AND LOTS MORE WWE NOTES

Stephanie McMahon was on the latest Bloomberg "Business of Sports," podcast where she discusses continuing to do business during the Covid era, stating that the positivity rate is around 1% within the company.  Stephanie discusses producing television in the Performance Center in leading to the creation of Thunderdome.  McMahon promotes WrestleMania returning to Raymond James Stadium and the precautions being taken.  Stephanie talks about the company being at the forefront of distribution with pay-per-view to the creation of the OTT platform of the WWE Network.  McMahon stated they learned a lot from the whole experience but reiterated multiple times despite having good people on the technology side, WWE is a content company, not a technology company.  The Chief Brand Officer discusses the deal with Peacock talking about the changing landscape of streaming and stating that 12,000 hours of catalog content will be brought over to the NBCUniversal streamer.  She is asked about the growth of female fans where McMahon discusses the Women's Revolution and Give Divas A Chance Movement.  She is also asked about athletes helping manage other athletes to which she replies about getting stars in outside projects to maximize pop-culture potential.  Stephanie is also asked about lessons she learned from her parents and a possible succession plan for Vince. In regards to learning lessons from her parents, she says he could learn something from anyone and that is hard to quantify with her mom and dad. In regards to the second question, McMahon answers by saying that the idea of someone replacing Vince is impossible, he does too much.  But the institutional knowledge is important.  That said, many people will be taking over his duties to make sure the business is around four generations to come. Really good interview.

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