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Post by valiens on Aug 12, 2008 9:11:50 GMT -5
Anyone else getting sick of the the "trivia facts," ratings hype, and vignettes about how proud WWE is to be recognized for fill in the blank?
They've only started doing this in an attempt to make WWE stock rise due to the good news. Problem is, the vast majority of stock holders don't watch WWE programming. How do I know? Because I work at an investment firm. When McMahon did the "Vince Is Dead" angle back when he blew up in the limo, WWE stock plummeted because the word on Wall Street was that Vince had actually died. They didn't know it was a work because they don't watch.
Perhaps WWE is hoping that they can work that same word-of-mouth problem into a positive by throwing out there during RAW/Smackdown all the ratings hikes, good deeds, and awards they're garnering... but by concentrating on cooking the word of mouth books, so to speak, at the expense of wrestling air time, they are not doing themselves (or us) any favors in the long run.
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Post by machinegun on Aug 12, 2008 9:12:47 GMT -5
Wow, Wal Street is full of retards.
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Post by teamjd on Aug 12, 2008 9:15:04 GMT -5
So only backwater hicks and the people in charge of this country's money believe what happens on wrestling is real? AWESOME. I wonder how many of them questioned thier faith when they heard Undertaker had come back from being buried alive.
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Post by valiens on Aug 12, 2008 9:15:08 GMT -5
Indeed.
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Post by jamofpearls on Aug 12, 2008 9:23:35 GMT -5
I thought they've been acknowledging awards they have won for years.
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Post by Professor Chaos on Aug 12, 2008 9:34:38 GMT -5
Is Michael Wall Street of the York Foundation involved?
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Post by BrianZane on Aug 12, 2008 10:30:33 GMT -5
If you combined the amount of time each episode for all those little things they do to talk up WWE, what else would they fill up the time with? Being a publicly traded company, they practically HAVE to hype up what they're doing.
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Post by valiens on Aug 12, 2008 10:50:02 GMT -5
If you combined the amount of time each episode for all those little things they do to talk up WWE, what else would they fill up the time with? Being a publicly traded company, they practically HAVE to hype up what they're doing. I dunno. I think it's just getting to me. Between this and all of the various sponsorships/ads, it feels like RAW/Smackdown are just advertising hubs that now advertise themselves to investors and sooner or later there's not going to even be a product they're advertising anymore. Just 2 hours of "Oh god, isn't this great?! - 'Isn't This Great' brought to you by, Fruity, Fruity, Delicious Skittles, who remind you to watch more WWE because it's great--just like Skittles!" |
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Post by salsashark on Aug 12, 2008 11:08:43 GMT -5
If you combined the amount of time each episode for all those little things they do to talk up WWE, what else would they fill up the time with? Being a publicly traded company, they practically HAVE to hype up what they're doing. I dunno. I think it's just getting to me. Between this and all of the various sponsorships/ads, it feels like RAW/Smackdown are just advertising hubs that now advertise themselves to investors and sooner or later there's not going to even be a product they're advertising anymore. Just 2 hours of "Oh god, isn't this great?! - 'Isn't This Great' brought to you by, Fruity, Fruity, Delicious Skittles, who remind you to watch more WWE because it's great--just like Skittles!" It could be worse. It could be MMA. |
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Post by Randy Barber 4-Life on Aug 12, 2008 11:54:33 GMT -5
The "Did You Know" bumpers seem to me trying to give people something to say when their friends say "wrestling's stupid" to try and sway new viewers. Of course as a kid if someone had told me wrestling was stupid and my reply was some statistic about the weekly male demographic I probably would've gotten punched in the ear.
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Post by Full Moon on Aug 12, 2008 12:12:11 GMT -5
The "Did You Know" bumpers seem to me trying to give people something to say when their friends say "wrestling's stupid" to try and sway new viewers. Of course as a kid if someone had told me wrestling was stupid and my reply was some statistic about the weekly male demographic I probably would've gotten punched in the ear. HAHA or when your parents wouldn't let you watch. Dad: I'm not watching that stupid wrestling, I wanna watch Monday Night Football. Kid: But Dad!!! Wrestling isn't stupid. Did you know more people watch Smackdown than Extreme Sports? Especially amongst the key demographic of males 18-34...c'mon Dad!! |
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Post by ghettooverlord on Aug 12, 2008 12:28:07 GMT -5
Wow, Wal Street is full of retards. Yup. 6/8/07: 17.856/11/07: Vince Death Angle 6/15/07: 17.216/22/07: 16.43Unfortunately, word of Benoit's death got around on the 25th, so it's hard to get a good gauge of whether or not that was the factor which caused the stock to hit 13.87 on August 15th. |
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Post by Fishbone is Marshall Law on Aug 12, 2008 12:31:08 GMT -5
Well Vince is head of a Fortune 500 company, with a slew of media advertising, network TV, and Children's products. He wants everyone to know how great his company is, since he built it up from nothing. WWE will be the WAL-MART of wrestling.
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Post by Full Moon on Aug 12, 2008 12:40:42 GMT -5
Well Vince is head of a Fortune 500 company, with a slew of media advertising, network TV, and Children's products. He wants everyone to know how great his company is, since he built it up from nothing. WWE will be the WAL-MART of wrestling. I thought it pretty much already was. TNA may exist (there will always be room for another wrestling company on television), but comparing TNA to WWE is like comparing little league to MLB. Especially in terms of merchandise, international presence, and just brand name significance. People use the word "kleenex" even when using non-kleenex tissues. The brand has entered our subconscious and become a noun. So to is WWE to the mainstream population. Not TNA, and it never will be. |
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Post by drjayphd (feat. Pitbull) on Aug 12, 2008 17:31:54 GMT -5
If you combined the amount of time each episode for all those little things they do to talk up WWE, what else would they fill up the time with? Being a publicly traded company, they practically HAVE to hype up what they're doing. I dunno. I think it's just getting to me. Between this and all of the various sponsorships/ads, it feels like RAW/Smackdown are just advertising hubs that now advertise themselves to investors and sooner or later there's not going to even be a product they're advertising anymore. Just 2 hours of "Oh god, isn't this great?! - 'Isn't This Great' brought to you by, Fruity, Fruity, Delicious Skittles, who remind you to watch more WWE because it's great--just like Skittles!" WWE will never, EEEEEEEEEEEVER be as bad as ESPN in this regard. Don't worry about that. |
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Post by justinqx on Aug 12, 2008 17:50:03 GMT -5
It would be cooler if they did random stuff about the wrestlers, like:
Did you know: Rey Mysterio eats 5 tacos a day.
Did you know: Batista can bench-press 700 pounds.
Did you know: HHH likes to play golf when he's not wrestling.
Did you know: Hornswoggle's great-great-grandpa was a real Irishman.
Did you know: Mr. Kennedy won the Toastmasters Award for introducing himself.
...stuff like that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2008 18:07:17 GMT -5
It would be cooler if they did random stuff about the wrestlers, like: Did you know: Rey Mysterio eats 5 tacos a day. Did you know: Batista can bench-press 700 pounds. Did you know: HHH likes to play golf when he's not wrestling. Did you know: Hornswoggle's great-great-grandpa was a real Irishman. Did you know: Mr. Kennedy won the Toastmasters Award for introducing himself. ...stuff like that. Did you know: Bam Neely was called the Human Fence while patrolling our nation's borders? |
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Post by Vizier on Aug 12, 2008 18:09:56 GMT -5
It would be cooler if they did random stuff about the wrestlers, like: Did you know: Rey Mysterio eats 5 tacos a day. Did you know: Batista can bench-press 700 pounds. Did you know: HHH likes to play golf when he's not wrestling. Did you know: Hornswoggle's great-great-grandpa was a real Irishman. Did you know: Mr. Kennedy won the Toastmasters Award for introducing himself. ...stuff like that. Did you know: Bam Neely was called the Human Fence while patrolling our nation's borders? Did you know: Guerrero is Spanish for Warrior, Maggle. Did you know: Finlay once severely lacerated his knee at a WCW house show Did you know: The Great Khali has massive, Limb-like arms |
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Post by Mr T L Wolf on Aug 12, 2008 22:09:43 GMT -5
Looks familiar, but I don't know where...
Matt thoroughly dislikes speedbumps
Matt is always fashionably late
Matt annually has a Christmas Bash
Matt is not fond of appendix that rupture
Matt secretly loves to be challenged
Matt is infatuated with storytelling
Matt is rapidly building a large scar collection
Matt is not afraid to eat alone in public
Matt is a huge fan of honest communication
Matt has big heat with broken hairs
Matt loves to read comments about his blogs
Matt always moves onward and upward
Matt is not a fan of triangles
Matt feels rotten if he doesn't do cardio
Matt occasionally drinks Green tea
Matt is a eight time world tag team champion
Matt never stretches as much as he should
Matt often desires lobster
Matt is a master of recalculation
Matt sleeps wearing only socks
Matt tans wearing only a sock
Matt always pays cash for big purchases
Matt is an occasional fan of roughage
Matt desperately needs a housekeeper
Matt marks out for heated car seats
Matt is not very high on flip-floppers
Matt always leaves voicemails
Matt hates when people call and don't leave voicemails
Matt appreciates Panera Bread's free Wi Fi
Matt prefers boxers to briefs
Matt sometimes like to enjoy a margarita
Matt never gets enough sleep due to his schedule
Matt's typical bedtime is 3 a.m.
Matt ideally likes to wake up at noon
Matt keeps his checkbook balanced
Matt rarely uses turn signals
Matt admires the soft faces of females
Matt loathes having to get up early
Matt is not afraid to pass on double yellow lines
Matt has a heated toilet seat
Matt gets extremely annoyed with dial up connections
Matt prefers dogs to cats
Matt always returns text messages... eventually
(Yep, stolen from myspace.com/theonlymatthardy)
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Post by justinqx on Aug 12, 2008 22:29:27 GMT -5
Did you know:
MVP is better than 27.3% of the human population
Ric Flair did the figure four 1,552 times
John Cena was invisible when he was a kid, the doctors cured him of Invisibility Syndrome at age 20
Stone Cold Steve Austin drinks an average of 475 cans of beer each year
Because the Rock didn't like restaurant food, they set up a kitchen in the arena so he could cook his own food. The kitchen was in the same room as the ventilation, so the Rock's food odors ended up spreading through the entire arena.
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