pay-per-view
noun
: a cable television service by which customers can order access to a particular broadcast for a fee
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Notably, YouTube has not provided any advance payment to Aamir Khan Productions for the release, with the entire arrangement based on revenue sharing from the pay-per-view model.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 July 2025
In 2018, all of those networks let their multiyear time buy deals lapse, but PBC signed traditional rights agreements with Fox Sports and Showtime, giving those networks distribution rights for its pay-per-view events.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 27 July 2025
After previously being left off several major pay-per-views, the WWE tag team titles will finally be on the line at a marquee show.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, who died Thursday, won his last WWF championship in Kansas City in April 2002 at Backlash, a World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event at Kemper Arena in Kansas City.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2025
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 July 2025
In 2018, all of those networks let their multiyear time buy deals lapse, but PBC signed traditional rights agreements with Fox Sports and Showtime, giving those networks distribution rights for its pay-per-view events.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 27 July 2025
After previously being left off several major pay-per-views, the WWE tag team titles will finally be on the line at a marquee show.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, who died Thursday, won his last WWF championship in Kansas City in April 2002 at Backlash, a World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event at Kemper Arena in Kansas City.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2025
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“Pay-per-view.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pay-per-view. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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