THE WRESTLING THREAD: BROCK LESNAR HAS ENTERED THE CHAT!!!
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New TV deal for AEW, hats off to them.
Hopefully, we'll learn about the numbers behind the deal and if it will finally make AEW a profit.
Hopefully, we'll learn about the numbers behind the deal and if it will finally make AEW a profit.
FINALLY! IT'S OFFICIAL! CONGRATS AEW!
Looks like "Rampage" is going away and the rumored FS1 "Shockwave" show will take its place. Still no word on ROH.
So it looks like Rampage is dead and being repackaged into another show, possibly on FS1.
And Collision and Dynamite will be simulcast live on MAX and old episodes available on demand, which is great.
That should hopefully get AEW more exposure with the mainstream and grow their product, if that's even their goal anymore.
$150m/year is not quite the $170m number that was being thrown around a few weeks ago but still a decent number.
And Collision and Dynamite will be simulcast live on MAX and old episodes available on demand, which is great.
That should hopefully get AEW more exposure with the mainstream and grow their product, if that's even their goal anymore.
$150m/year is not quite the $170m number that was being thrown around a few weeks ago but still a decent number.
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Big overrun tonight! The victory lap show!
I wonder what AEWs overhead is on operational costs a year. Between production costs, talent and staff pay, venue costs, travel costs, marketing, etc....
I would be curious to see how much they spend a year versus how much they actually make.
Regardless, glad to see they finally have their deal.
According to Andrew Zarian and Sean Ross Sapp the $150m doesn't factor in everything like ppv revenue for example so the number is probably higher than $150m.
Over/under 720K viewers? I'm taking the under.
For their payroll alone, the number being floated out there is $100m/year
If true that's ridiculous.For their payroll alone, the number being floated out there is $100m/year
Another great thing about the AEW Streaming MAX deal and the WWE Raw Netflix streaming deal is this ratings discourse bullshit will FINALLY be put to rest. No more Nielsen ratings crap.
At this point it doesn't really matter. The deal is done and once they go to streaming the traditional Nielsen ratings model will be really dead. They'll grow that audience through streaming.
For their payroll alone, the number being floated out there is $100m/year
That's $50 bucks to TK.
I hope you're right but I doubt it. If folks weren't tuning into to watch them on regular cable, I doubt folks are going to start watching them on a streaming platform. Although people are leaving cable year after year, channel surfing on cable is still part of viewer habits. People who stream and ONLY stream are going to watch the content they already enjoy.
You're not going to be growing a new audience on a streaming platform, just cater to the base that already watched you on cable.
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I agree. It's been outdated for too long. The way people consume wrestling has changed past the point to be able to accurately gauge the numbers "easily".
Well.....it is. He isn't a businessman, his father is.Always with the "it's his dad's money" narrative.
Exactly. I don't even watch Dynamite on TBS cable. I watch it on the Fite stream so if I'm watching it via streaming how many more people are also watching it via streaming? So when the Nielsen viewer numbers come out and it's 700,000 I say to myself yeah but what are the streaming numbers?
Those anti-AEW twitter account tears are delicious!
I don't think TV ratings discussion will completely go away because Smackdown and Dynamite/Collision will still be on cable.
That's still an apples to apples comparison even if a larger percentage of the audience will be streaming.
LOL, here we go with the victory lap for all the AEW marks.
New deal is definitely worth celebrating but I'm not sure it's worth spiking the ball and taunting right now.
Nobody credible (that wasn't trolling for clicks) ever said that AEW wouldn't get a TV deal or would be out of business.
The only question was how much would the deal be for.
It will be replaced by the streaming number...look at how music is measured....going to be the same thing.
Yes, there's gonna be streaming numbers but it won't be calculated in the same way Nielsen ratings are. Nielsen ratings are dependent on who watches the shows live whereas streaming isn't dependent on that. You can stream/watch the show later and it still count as a view. A lot of people don't watch wrestling live.
Legit happy for AEW, now hopefully they will learn from past mistakes (tho we know Khan doesn't seem to learn anything other than new variations of cocaine usage) and grow.
Lmaooooo I know how streaming works and is different, hence the music example...doesn't change the fact that those numbers are being recorded and measured.
New info coming out. The entire AEW library will be on MAX. 
Yeah and that's fine as it works in AEW's favor versus the outdated Nielsen model.
Maybe, but that ain't gonna fix the attendance problem....that shit needs to be addressed ASAP. And nothing boosts tv/streaming numbers like not being able to attend a sellout show that's being televised. And so far, they've been going backwards on that.
So she's randomly speaking Russian now?
