Post by Sephiroth on Sept 22, 2014 9:02:03 GMT -5
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Isn't this getting a bit tiresome? I'm honestly starting to think WWE should just go private again, because this constant speculation from so called "Financial analysts" is getting ridiculous. I actually agree that 2014 has not been a good year for WWE overall for many reasons; seeming unending injuries have upended whatever plans WWE was trying to lay out, forcing them to repeatedly do things more or less on the fly. And even when injuries weren't involved, WWE managed to somehow book certain things completely counter to what fans wanted to see.
As for the Network, I actually continue to see it as a very innovative idea and could potentially be a blueprint for the future of the cable industry as a whole-essentially, pay for what you want to see instead of for a package including services you will never use. But WWE obviously under-estimated the technical challenges it would entail. The idea was, perhaps, just a little too ahead of its time.
And that leads me into my final bit of input: I think WWE has to much going on at once right now. At a time when wrestling just isn't as big a money maker as it was a decade ago, WWE has branched out in too many different directions all at once and have grown a bit too fast for their own good. Their TV shows have become giant commercials for their other ventures like the Network, Total Divas, and WWE Films. And the obligations of these other ventures have become a perpetual drain on WWE's main product-case in point, Dean Ambrose having to take time off to do a movie when he was red hot with the crowd, of the divas division having to be booked around Total Divas. I understand that any business wants to grow and enter new fields, but WWE needs to learn to build some degree of separation, because this constant blurring of the lines is dragging down their tv programs.
Isn't this getting a bit tiresome? I'm honestly starting to think WWE should just go private again, because this constant speculation from so called "Financial analysts" is getting ridiculous. I actually agree that 2014 has not been a good year for WWE overall for many reasons; seeming unending injuries have upended whatever plans WWE was trying to lay out, forcing them to repeatedly do things more or less on the fly. And even when injuries weren't involved, WWE managed to somehow book certain things completely counter to what fans wanted to see.
As for the Network, I actually continue to see it as a very innovative idea and could potentially be a blueprint for the future of the cable industry as a whole-essentially, pay for what you want to see instead of for a package including services you will never use. But WWE obviously under-estimated the technical challenges it would entail. The idea was, perhaps, just a little too ahead of its time.
And that leads me into my final bit of input: I think WWE has to much going on at once right now. At a time when wrestling just isn't as big a money maker as it was a decade ago, WWE has branched out in too many different directions all at once and have grown a bit too fast for their own good. Their TV shows have become giant commercials for their other ventures like the Network, Total Divas, and WWE Films. And the obligations of these other ventures have become a perpetual drain on WWE's main product-case in point, Dean Ambrose having to take time off to do a movie when he was red hot with the crowd, of the divas division having to be booked around Total Divas. I understand that any business wants to grow and enter new fields, but WWE needs to learn to build some degree of separation, because this constant blurring of the lines is dragging down their tv programs.