If AEW was smart, they could run their shows at the Baxter Arena or the Liberty First Credit Union Center in Ralston. Those arenas have smaller
capacities, but they can pack the house with no problems.
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capacities, but they can pack the house with no problems.
ayatollah
WCW Mark
Finn Baller
Superstar
ayatollah
WCW Mark
so that makes the data wrong?
Finn Baller
Superstar
it's excuse making because the wrestling he dislikes isn't suffering the same level of drops as the kind he rides for. Not to mention NBA, NHL, WNBA, women's college hoops are all up compared to last year. Live sports on TV (WWE included) are doing just fine, its cable programming in general that's on the way out. But that's why all the top sports leagues are trying to get their foot in the door with network and streamers to diversify shyt going forward.
Dynamite is down 14% in viewership and 16% in demo from a year ago.
Raw on the other hand is -2% and +4%.
Smackdown -2% and +6%.
NXT +6% and +19%
yes Dynamite is in line with cable programming in terms of losses, but when another company in the same exact genre isn't suffering the same degree of losses (and are making gains, in fact) there's something to it beyond just "Oh well all cable is down ya know"
ayatollah
WCW Mark
The effect that Smackdown being on Fox is understated 100%. it helped their whole brand like 10000%
doesn't speak to NXT's comparative growth. Not a minimized decrease like theother brand had - NXT grew despite their in-flux direction, a few months of footing-finding and a full-on era reboot. Succeeding like that is impressive when your fundamental base model is 'everyone who is good here leaves to got to RAW/Smackdown'.
ya know.
Just like AEW...
...but on purpose
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ayatollah
WCW Mark
when you've got a network TV show that millions of people have access to, advertising affiliated cable TV programs, its going to help drive viewers. interweaving stories that carry over to those cable networks, it's going to help. PERIODT
Finn Baller
Superstar
Raw on Netflix is gonna do the same thing when they move there, especially internationally
ayatollah
WCW Mark
If I was a betting bro I'd say smackdown won't get anywhere near the numbers they were getting on Fox when they move to USA, and might not get the numbers raw is getting currently.
Finn Baller
Superstar
I mean that's almost a certainty, especially with USA keeping Smackdown on Friday nights. Once Raw goes to Netflix that becomes the "A show" again and Smackdown falls back down the food chain
I still can't believe that this breh lost clean to frail, pale, stringy-haired Adam Cole.
I feel like NXT being canon with Smackdown and RAW’s weekly is what’s helped it more than anything
For a long time it felt like NXT existed on an island by itself instead of being a developmental extension of the two major brands
For a long time it felt like NXT existed on an island by itself instead of being a developmental extension of the two major brands
