{"id":65271,"date":"2020-03-21T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=65271"},"modified":"2020-03-21T06:18:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T10:18:47","slug":"report-wrestlemania-36-fox-or-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/03\/21\/report-wrestlemania-36-fox-or-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: WrestleMania 36 Could Air On FOX Or ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A source has told us that offers have been made by both ESPN and Fox to air <em>WrestleMania 36<\/em>.\u00a0 With every major sport either postponing or suspending their season channels like ESPN are desperate for first-run &#8220;live&#8221; content and it&#8217;s no surprise that they are attempting to get the two-night extravaganza of WrestleMania which would provide them with several hours of content.\u00a0 This rumour follows on from the speculation that the WWE were open to selling their PPV rights that surfaced following their most recent earnings report.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note that ESPN recently announced they would be airing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/03\/20\/espn-to-begin-airing-three-weeks-of-wrestlemania-this-sunday\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">classic WrestleMania&#8217;s<\/a> in the leadup to the show itself.\u00a0 This could be their method of testing the waters to weigh up interest but could also be a sign that they feel confident they&#8217;ll get the rights to air the show.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s clear is that WWE&#8217;s decision to go ahead with WrestleMania 36 amidst calls to postpone the event could be the correct business decision as they are now the only major sporting entity still generating new content, and as we all know by now content is a desired commodity by broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. WWE fan? Check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Network<\/a>\u00a0to view all the matches above!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A source has told us that offers have been made by both ESPN and Fox to air WrestleMania 36.\u00a0 With every major sport either postponing or suspending their season channels like ESPN are desperate for first-run &#8220;live&#8221; content and it&#8217;s no surprise that they are attempting to get the two-night extravaganza of WrestleMania which would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":64591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}