This going on Fox Fox? Not sure what their Friday night lineup usually is like. I assumed it was going to be FS1 but $1b and the day change has me wondering. Feel like FS1 has some CFB and UFC Friday committments.
yeah my original thought was fuck that, thinking back to the original switch when I was in college, but with a subdued social life and especially the dvr now it's not a big deal
If it's taped nothing really changes (other than WWE's weekly show goes to OTA broadcast TV, which is huge). If it's live it will really require a lot of adjustment to the travel schedule.
What you mean? Vince has another angle to shove Top Guy Reigns on masses, this time on network TV? Prepare for the summer of Roman in 2019! (I apologize Mr Reigns, pensacola guys gotta stick together but the jokes kinda make themselves.)
If you have WWE stock, hold on to it because it's soaring right now. But once the Raw deal is announced, and the stock rises even more, THEN you should sell. Get what you can out of it and sell before Vince does something to screw it up.
WWE on regular Fox is a huge get for them. With that exposure and that price, it has to mean they intend on keeping SD on par or close to it with RAW.
They're going to make 500mm a year just to broadcast their shows. That doesn't include gates, merch, Network subs. They should absolutely improve the quality of life of their performers. (and bring back pyro)
Also, while we know the product can be better, there is absolutely zero reason for Vince to change a thing about how he books. People can bitch and moan but with this deal, Vince has won again.
WWE now has so much money they don't have to get a single shit about what their audience wants. They don't need gate revenue, they barely need Network subscription revenue.
And every “PPV” should be done to build to Monday’s Raw. That’s already been happening, but now, outside of Mania, they shouldn’t be building to blow offs at shows like Backlash.
It'll be 3 hours, but it'll be live. It's a big reason they were able to land the billion dollar deal.
Dave Meltzer already crunched the numbers and said that, for the first time ever, the company now makes more money from TV than they do PPV/WWEN. In other words, they'd be better off using PPVs to sell you on watching Raw/SD than vice-versa.
I thought the Smackdown brand ran from Saturday to Tuesday night. Raw from Friday to Monday. Curious how they make it work live.
It won't be three hours on Fox. They will run it from 7-9 (central) and turn the 10pm hour (again, central) to local news.
The one thing Vince has never had to do is listen to a network give him feedback on SD. That could be interesting to see unfold with Fox. I could see the brand split going buh bye but I think we will see how the co branded shows go before the fan is kicked too far down the road.
They won’t give a shit about the house show schedule with how much money this deal is worth. It’s a whole new world if they want it to be.
no chance they do it, but they should go full on brand split with separate everything and let them compete with each other.
I’d be happy for the wrestlers if they cut house shows back but part of me believes that means they’d just fire a bunch of guys
It’s a win for Fox over what they had with UFC. One of the biggest problems Fox had was Dana holding back the big names and fights for PPV instead of letting them go on free TV. With WWE, Fox is going to get the PPV fight for 4 weeks straight prior to the PPV just in slightly different configurations, and then the exact same fight as the PPV he first show after the PPV
Plus WWE should provide them 3-3.5 million viewers on a Friday night, 52 weeks a year. That’s huge for a network these days. That’s a consistent audience to promote the shit out of FS1 to.
Smackdown has been running monday house shows for a while now. I assume their schedule will be Friday-Monday for Smackdown, Monday-Thursday for Raw.
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