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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2024 15:37:55 GMT -5
The only people that are upset by this move or think it’s “risky” are people who don’t have Netflix. Same way people were up in arms when WWE sold The Network to NBC, which turned into the WWE’s most profitable year. Tbf Peacock is awful compared to the actual network. You could actually search for stuff on the network and PPVs had chapters so you weren’t just scrubbing until you hit 45 seconds of ads each time. Oh, absolutely. There’s certain events (SummerSlam 2002 for example) that I can’t watch. Once I select it, the app closes out with an error. Might be Peacock, might by my Playstation. No idea… but that sale made the WWE an enormous profit. People act like cable is dying and no one has it anymore yet last year's Super Bowl had over 115 million viewers and is the highest rated superbowl of all time. In the year 2023. Just some food for thought. I bring this up occasionally when people talk cable and ratings and no one ever wants to talk about it lol Cable is dying. This will hurt it even more. Just wait until sports are picked up by streaming services. They’ve already done big games in football, baseball and soccer. Those contracts that these streaming platforms offer are too good to decline. Not saying it’ll happen this year, but it’s in the process.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Jan 23, 2024 15:38:32 GMT -5
People act like cable is dying and no one has it anymore yet last year's Super Bowl had over 115 million viewers and is the highest rated superbowl of all time. In the year 2023. Just some food for thought. I bring this up occasionally when people talk cable and ratings and no one ever wants to talk about it lol You say this, but I’ll retort with that Chiefs game that was a peacock exclusive last week, was the most watched thing in the history of streaming, so people are def making the switch or at least it’s gaining steam. My wife bugs me monthly to get rid of cable and wrestling has been a big reason why I haven’t. But I might consider it now. I'm in no way disagreeing and I saw the report about the Peacock game. But 115 million viewers is still something to consider
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2024 15:48:38 GMT -5
But if the Super Bowl was exclusive to, say, Peacock… do we really think a very high percentage aren’t going to subscribe to Peacock to watch the Super Bowl? It’s been a debate for years.
Is WrestleMania exclusive to Peacock/WWE Network, or can you still order it on Pay-Per-View?
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Jan 23, 2024 16:21:41 GMT -5
But if the Super Bowl was exclusive to, say, Peacock… do we really think a very high percentage aren’t going to subscribe to Peacock to watch the Super Bowl? It’s been a debate for years. Is WrestleMania exclusive to Peacock/WWE Network, or can you still order it on Pay-Per-View? Unless they’ve stopped it in the last few months, you can still order WWE on PPV, yeah. Jim Cornette still does just that because he lives in 1987.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Jan 23, 2024 17:38:22 GMT -5
As a UK fan this is excellent news. Netflix is much cheaper than TNT Sports and the only reason I have is for WWE.
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Jan 23, 2024 18:03:07 GMT -5
5 billion for 10 years ffs
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Post by J-MANN on Jan 23, 2024 18:08:41 GMT -5
5 billion for 10 years ffs 5 Bill Phil
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Jan 23, 2024 18:13:24 GMT -5
5 billion for 10 years ffs 5 Bill Phil Makes sense
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Post by J-MANN on Jan 23, 2024 18:21:03 GMT -5
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Jan 23, 2024 18:27:21 GMT -5
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Jan 23, 2024 18:29:35 GMT -5
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Post by J-MANN on Jan 23, 2024 18:32:43 GMT -5
It should make dollars tbh
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Jan 23, 2024 18:35:24 GMT -5
It should make dollars tbh 5 billion
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Post by J-MANN on Jan 23, 2024 18:36:38 GMT -5
It should make dollars tbh 5 billion Lol, exactly
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Post by kinnikuman on Jan 23, 2024 18:41:35 GMT -5
This is a huge move. The “people don’t or won’t stream” thing people are saying everywhere is pretty funny to me Why? If you only care about wrestling, sure ... just get Netflix. But if you care about other stuff, Netflix is not the best option. So now people will have to pay just to watch RAW and pay to watch another service for everything else. If RAW gets 1.5 million or so weekly via cable ratings, are you saying all those people have Netflix? They're going to lose some viewers. But again, they don't care. They're getting paid.
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Post by kinnikuman on Jan 23, 2024 18:44:30 GMT -5
Also ...
Netflix WILL increase fees in 2024.
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Post by kinnikuman on Jan 23, 2024 18:46:35 GMT -5
250 million people have Netflix. That's more than 3 times the number of homes that have USA Network. Please read this slowly. 260 actually ... worldwide. USA is cable. In the US.
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Post by kinnikuman on Jan 23, 2024 18:48:35 GMT -5
Fantastic decision. When streaming becomes the dominant way to watch football, it'll be the actual death of cable in terms of advertiser spending. Get ahead of that, it's only a matter of time. Except NFL fans HATE having to watch games on Amazon or Peacock. All they did was complain. Look, we can only watch what is offered, but it is in no way the dominant way to watch. It's only goal is to be the only way.
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Post by kinnikuman on Jan 23, 2024 18:53:44 GMT -5
People act like cable is dying and no one has it anymore yet last year's Super Bowl had over 115 million viewers and is the highest rated superbowl of all time. In the year 2023. Just some food for thought. I bring this up occasionally when people talk cable and ratings and no one ever wants to talk about it lol It's just young folk who have the latest tech, live on their phones, stream, and spend all day on forums lol. Of course they think that way. But go out ... look around you. You'll see way more people than not who don't live life via social media, etc. Maybe when Gen Alpha is in their 30s we can think that way ... but again, these debates never take in account the millions of people who can't afford streaming. They can afford basic cable or OTA. Jesus, there are still millions of people who don't even have smart phones.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Jan 23, 2024 19:18:21 GMT -5
People act like cable is dying and no one has it anymore yet last year's Super Bowl had over 115 million viewers and is the highest rated superbowl of all time. In the year 2023. Just some food for thought. I bring this up occasionally when people talk cable and ratings and no one ever wants to talk about it lol It's just young folk who have the latest tech, live on their phones, stream, and spend all day on forums lol. Of course they think that way. But go out ... look around you. You'll see way more people than not who don't live life via social media, etc. Maybe when Gen Alpha is in their 30s we can think that way ... but again, these debates never take in account the millions of people who can't afford streaming. They can afford basic cable or OTA. Jesus, there are still millions of people who don't even have smart phones. You make a lot of good points. I know people with flip phones and good ol basic cable. I know some that only read books and dont watch anything. Streaming is no doubt taking over but Jesus man.. 115 mil on the Nielson in 2023 puts the "TV is dead" conversation to bed for awhile. But as far as Raw on Netflix. Good for WWE and the deal. Good for anyone that this benefits as far as ease of watching goes. Internationally I'm sure it's great for fans
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