Meltzer Stinks!
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Brad Piff
The Money & The Miles
It is so important to double source. To believe a $288M / year valuation for AEW TV rights is ... special.
Just using common sense, NXT saw about a 25% increase in the demo YoY for the second quarter of 2024. They got a 60% rights increase ($15M to $25M).
SmackDown is up like 15% in the demo YoY. It got a 40% increase, $205M to $287M. RAW is harder to determine because Netflix got a lot of other international programming.
Collision is down like 35% YoY. Dynamite is down 17%. Those are the "A" shows.
WrestleNomics had AEW's ABD TV rights at about $68M for 2023. If someone said that WBD would value it at $288M - a 235% increase - wouldn't you double source that number before putting it out there?!
It's bad for AEW too because if people believe that number, anything less will seem like a disappointment (or a massive disappointment depending on how much less).
- Raj Giri
Just using common sense, NXT saw about a 25% increase in the demo YoY for the second quarter of 2024. They got a 60% rights increase ($15M to $25M).
SmackDown is up like 15% in the demo YoY. It got a 40% increase, $205M to $287M. RAW is harder to determine because Netflix got a lot of other international programming.
Collision is down like 35% YoY. Dynamite is down 17%. Those are the "A" shows.
WrestleNomics had AEW's ABD TV rights at about $68M for 2023. If someone said that WBD would value it at $288M - a 235% increase - wouldn't you double source that number before putting it out there?!
It's bad for AEW too because if people believe that number, anything less will seem like a disappointment (or a massive disappointment depending on how much less).
- Raj Giri
firemanBk
The Manslayer
Even Smackdown isn't apples to apples cause NBC is getting 4 Primetime specials a year as part of that package
So that increase isn't just fully $ for Smackdown
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
6 star thread 
bigdaddy88
The King Of Power
dave has lost 99% of his sources from back in the day. Plus fans are too"smart" ,wrestlers dissing him and clear bias has led to his stock plummeting
and you know he’s on the payroll when he gave those wack YB/JB matches 5 starsFinn Baller
Superstar
I don’t think those are real, doesn’t the observer usually come out on Thursday?
CBoz
We Are NXT!
Yeah those are fake, I saw it on reddit confirmed as.
KFBF
Superstar
What a complete joke.
Next he’s gonna say how Danielson’s big win got overshadowed by his violent brother-in-law
