WWE will continue the brand split; FOX wants their own stars separate from NBCU (RAW)

[RammerJammer]

Per Meltz

Here are a few more notes regarding tentative plans for October. There was speculation going around that with the move to FOX that they would go to one brand because they would need all the top stars on FOX because of how important network prime time numbers are. That was denied to us and said that FOX doesn’t really want to cross-promote the same talent as NBC Universal and the expectation is split crews would remain. We are still more than ten months away from launch and anything could end up happening

It also appears they will have separate production teams for Raw and Smackdown and will start doing more house shows for the network. The Smackdown team will do the live Friday shows and whatever Saturday house shows that they will air. The Raw team will work Sundays, whether PPVs or Sunday house shows, along with Raw

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

the roster is deep on talent but light on actual stars. They need to start pushing people besides Brock/Braun/Reigns. Looks like Drew Mac got the call but they need diversity

 

[Playaz Eyez]

News of this probably got out early, which explains Raw wiping out the SD roster at Survivor Series. Pretty stupid since Raw and SD are under the same WWE umbrella.

 

[NYChase718]

Sd on fox is an epic flop waiting to happen

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Sd on fox is an epic flop waiting to happen

They're gonna have a draft in which the WWE leaves SD with "top 5 stars" of Apollo Crews, Fandango, Viktor, Erick Rowan, and Scott Dawson

 

[jackswstd]

They’ll be on FS2 by January 2020

 

[krackdagawd]

Rise and fall of wwe

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

We are still more than ten months away from launch and anything could end up happening

way to cover yourself if you're wrong

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

We are still more than ten months away from launch and anything could end up happening

way to cover yourself if you're wrong

Vince could change his mind but as of right now this is the plan unless Vince changes his mind and then it's not :meltzer:

 

[Cladyclad]

I just finished a wwe survey. I think it was in mind for Fox (just imo). This survey was detailed AF compared to the others. I think we may be getting a adult oriented product brehs.

 

[Stop_It_5]

 

[Jmare007]

the roster is deep on talent but light on actual stars. They need to start pushing people besides Brock/Braun/Reigns. Looks like Drew Mac got the call but they need diversity

And they have a pretty easy path for Becky to get to legit stardom levels. But I think we all have our doubts that they will actually do it

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Good thing they buried the shyt out of the whole Smackdown roster at Survivor Series.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

hope Fox is doing their homework and watching it now..then pick their choice for who they want rather than letting Vince dictate who they get

 

[NerdNash]

hope Fox is doing their homework and watching it now..then pick their choice for who they want rather than letting Vince dictate who they get

Who is that in your avi