I'm surprised that World Wrestling Entertainment didn't move sooner in creating a streaming network. For $10 per month, users have access to tons of back catalogue content in addition to each of their monthly "Pay Per View" mega-events:
In addition to new shows, the app will also grant you access to more than 100,000 hours of video-on-demand content, including every previous pay-per-view event from WWE, WCW, and ECW. It will become available on desktops and laptops and through the WWE app for iOS and Android, and the Kindle Fire. Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and 4, and Roku will also be able to access the network. The network will be available in the United States to start, with additional countries coming later this year and early next year.
I find most notable in the above not the official omission of AppleTV (the most bizarrely impenetrable platform for major streaming brands, oddly), but that WWE Network is going global. Since WWE control their worldwide SVOD rights, they have no reason to use middlemen (like cable and satellite providers) to sub-distribute them.
They needed CES so little to make this a big deal to their very dedicated following. I'm surprised they didn't just make a standalone event of their own, or build it into their signature Monday Night RAW show. As a result, this is the biggest announcement to come out of CES in five years, maybe ten.
I think of the BBC and ITV in the UK, whose blockbuster series Doctor Who & Sherlock, as well as Downton Abbey respectively, have fanbases with money to spend who want to avoid time-displaced spoilers. They have respective business interests, like sub-licensing to PBS in the States and BBC's own America variant, but there are still cable providers in the year 2014 who don't offer BBCA in HD, for crying out loud.
UPDATE from Twitter reader Tim Cooke (note the "e"):