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Post by hitmancmedge on Sept 21, 2023 8:36:32 GMT -5
Smackdown going back to USA in Oct 2024 five year deal 1.4 Billion. Plus four quarterly specials on NBC. They are now going to Shop RAW and NXT’s deals.
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Post by Grenouille on Sept 21, 2023 8:57:26 GMT -5
More money and not getting moved around to a secondary channel. Good deal for WWE.
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Sept 21, 2023 10:28:06 GMT -5
Good news
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Sept 21, 2023 10:29:49 GMT -5
I hope the specials are better than the last time they had those.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2023 12:11:53 GMT -5
Good. Keep WWE on one channel as much as possible.
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Post by Thunder Chunky on Sept 21, 2023 13:01:10 GMT -5
More money and not getting moved around to a secondary channel. Good deal for WWE. USA is a secondary channel compared to FOX. Fox is available for everybody in the US, USA is a cable channel. They're definitely going to lose some viewers over this move. |
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Post by bruceb1978 on Sept 21, 2023 13:01:28 GMT -5
Curious to see how much/if the ratings change when they go back to USA.
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Post by Thunder Chunky on Sept 21, 2023 13:54:28 GMT -5
Curious to see how much/if the ratings change when they go back to USA. I don't see them going up. |
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Post by rkmo: Garbage Collector on Sept 21, 2023 13:58:13 GMT -5
Hey now, let's not get into ratings talk here. It is not conducive to the overall enjoyment of the show.
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Post by Grenouille on Sept 21, 2023 14:37:26 GMT -5
More money and not getting moved around to a secondary channel. Good deal for WWE. USA is a secondary channel compared to FOX. Fox is available for everybody in the US, USA is a cable channel. They're definitely going to lose some viewers over this move. That is likely going from a network to cable. I’m not sure that I’d categorize USA as secondary as being on FS1 when that was necessary. I’m sure the 40% bump helps soften the blows here. |
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Post by kinnikuman on Sept 21, 2023 14:37:48 GMT -5
Smackdown ratings will drop, and RAW will move to ... SyFy? Vice? beIN Sports? AXS? As for NXT ... it'll go back to Peacock.
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Post by hitmancmedge on Sept 21, 2023 14:53:11 GMT -5
Smackdown ratings will drop, and RAW will move to ... SyFy? Vice? beIN Sports? AXS? As for NXT ... it'll go back to Peacock. Have you not been keeping up? They are gonna get over a billion for raw too. Part of the reason why they are gonna shop them. Amazon is interested, Disney, even sounds like WBD is gonna at least look into what they want for it. |
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Post by kinnikuman on Sept 21, 2023 16:29:00 GMT -5
Smackdown ratings will drop, and RAW will move to ... SyFy? Vice? beIN Sports? AXS? As for NXT ... it'll go back to Peacock. Have you not been keeping up? They are gonna get over a billion for raw too. Part of the reason why they are gonna shop them. Amazon is interested, Disney, even sounds like WBD is gonna at least look into what they want for it. We shall see. Just remember Smackdown's big numbers were due to being on OTA television. A streaming service or a WBD property will not get those numbers. So, buyer beware. If TKO is run by smart people, they will package RAW and UFC related content. THAT will bring in bidders. RAW? Meh. USA never had big time numbers for it. |
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Post by POOR-ly Cuyler on Sept 21, 2023 16:54:15 GMT -5
Good. Keep WWE on one channel as much as possible. The rumor is that USA would lose RAW and NXT though |
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Post by hitmancmedge on Sept 21, 2023 16:59:00 GMT -5
Good. Keep WWE on one channel as much as possible. The rumor is that USA would lose RAW and NXT though In theory i guess it could still end up there, but they passed on the number wwe gave them to not take it on the open market. Who knows what that number was. |
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Sept 21, 2023 17:05:35 GMT -5
Good riddance, Smackdown's quality dipped from the move to Fox IMO and they also had too much say in what was going on.
I was also tired of hearing Cole say Smackdown on Fox every few minutes.
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Post by bruceb1978 on Sept 21, 2023 22:22:54 GMT -5
Curious to see how much/if the ratings change when they go back to USA. I don't see them going up. I assume they will def go down not up. The real question is how much will they go down. The reality is that USA is more than happy that Raw gets average 1.5 mil so smackdown def has some room to drop while still keeping USA happy. |
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Post by nickp on Sept 21, 2023 23:48:51 GMT -5
The last time smackdown changed network we got The rock and Bayley won the SmackDown women's championship what will happen when smackdown moves to USA Network
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2023 4:47:26 GMT -5
The last time smackdown changed network we got The rock and Bayley won the SmackDown women's championship what will happen when smackdown moves to USA Network “Roman Reigns returns” |
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Post by kinnikuman on Sept 22, 2023 10:55:01 GMT -5
I see it getting RAW numbers. Let's be honest, there aren't THAT many people who prefer Smackdown to RAW or vice versa. It's the same thing. I also don't see Roman being the reason for 2 million viewers. It's because it's on FOX. Maybe they'll put RAW on the CW lol. Pretty sure that's free.
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