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Post by domrep on Jun 22, 2016 15:59:08 GMT -5
Synergy. I despise their random 3 hour repeating blocks on any given day of the live feed. You'll have an episode of Total Divas, followed by This Week in WWE, then Camp WWE, E&C, Roundtable and then it'll start over at Total Divas. This will repeat 4 straight times, an old PPV will play and then the same block of the exact same episodes will replay throughout the night until the next morning when it's the same shows with the episodes changed (for the most part). How hard could it possibly be to have four straight episodes of RAW from any given year (Smackdown from later years) and then the PPV straight after? Or to have Saturday Night at 6PM on Saturday night? They have a show called Tuesday Night Titans that they can play on Tuesday nights. I don't know what Hulk's situation is, but they could put the Rock N Wrestling episodes on Saturday mornings, followed by Action Zone or Superstars. My point is, they have old shows that aired weekly in specific timeslots. Why not play them in those timeslots? They could sprinkle in Total Divas at a designated time, as well as their Network Exclusive content in primetime slots on certain nights (could advertise it as a block of new episodes debuting on.... Friday nights from 8-11PM). There is so much potential to make this an all encompassing and engrossing network with just a little effort, and they program repeats as though it were that much more expensive to assign an intern to look into scheduling more variety. The on-demand feature is fun if you want to binge, but this would take the work out of having to go find episodes of shows for individual viewings. One of the best parts of being a fan as a kid was knowing exactly when a show aired and following it weekly. I guess it's a cultural shift. I honestly thought this was how they were going to do things as well. Mondays @ 7 PM - RAW preshow Mondays @ 11:15 PM - whatever podcast special or RAW post show Once you have those two things locked in, build around that. Same w/Tuesday's Smackdown, Wednesday NXT. Saturday and Sundays, build around the weekend shows in order. Let's say Summerslam is coming up, with the exception of those days I mentioned, play every Summerslam, one per night leading up to the night of the event. Today is the 20 year anniversary of Austin's promo at KOTR, show that PPV.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jun 22, 2016 16:23:52 GMT -5
It'll never happen but I'd love two things
1. A "Wide World of Wrestling" highlights show - featuring random indy/international matches from around the globe
2. Chikara/Kaiju Big Battel
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jun 22, 2016 18:53:48 GMT -5
the uk broadcasts of wcw worldwide from channel 5. just so the rest of the world can bare witness to what wrestling shows look like with 60's batman style edits. CUT THE *whipcrack* MUSIC
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Post by Ken: The Hero of WWE on Jun 22, 2016 20:10:36 GMT -5
Other entertainment entities. I feel that the WWE needs content that isn't just pro-wrestling. They should try to get reruns of Tosh.0 or It's Always Sunny or just make similar original shows themselves.
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Post by fg on Jun 22, 2016 21:34:04 GMT -5
Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, and the remaining episodes of Prime Time are pretty lame omissions at this point. They need to be there. I second the suggestion of having a Coliseum Video section. I also kinda assumed that'd be an early feature to lure in nostalgic fans... like me. I want this stuff badly too. It connects so much of the Federation Era, especially between Wrestlemania 3 all the way until really Raw got rolling. Couple of issues: Digitizing time - so much tape to be converted to digital and then uploaded, and we are talking years here. Music rights too - Country Boy, Superstar and Sirius all have to go and those are the major ones. Probably minor stuff too. And finally, and probably critical - Hogan is still in WWE's doghouse. Even with Gawker losing, the fact is Hogan still said what he said and that's not good from a corporate point of view. Just have to wait and see about forgiving and moving on. As far as the syndicated shows goes, the probably would have to edit out the house show plugs and for the ones that were made prior to mid 1992, they would have to censor Howard Finkel's voice overs where he plugged house shows (unless they show house plugs from one area like the NY area)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2016 22:16:23 GMT -5
They don't have all of Nitro up yet, or any episodes of Thunder.
Also, ECW Supercards that were released on tape back in the day.
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Post by corndog on Jun 22, 2016 22:29:12 GMT -5
Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, and the remaining episodes of Prime Time are pretty lame omissions at this point. They need to be there. I second the suggestion of having a Coliseum Video section. I also kinda assumed that'd be an early feature to lure in nostalgic fans... like me. I agree with all of this. Add Championship Wrestling from Florida and I am good, which they already had on WWE 24/7, so a lot of it is good to go.
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Post by ltcproductions on Jun 23, 2016 13:11:14 GMT -5
They don't have all of Nitro up yet, or any episodes of Thunder. Also, ECW Supercards that were released on tape back in the day. Joey Styles has said that the supercards are coming.
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Post by ERON on Jun 23, 2016 15:15:15 GMT -5
Other entertainment entities. I feel that the WWE needs content that isn't just pro-wrestling. They should try to get reruns of Tosh.0 or It's Always Sunny or just make similar original show themselves. The only non-wrestling shows I would be cool with seeing on WWE Network would be other "sports entertainment" type fare like XFL, monster trucks, roller derby, the Harlem Globetrotters, American Gladiators, Sasuke, and WMAC Masters.
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Post by Big Bad Kahuna on Jun 23, 2016 15:29:43 GMT -5
WWE Divas Undressed 2016 feat. Alexa, Bayley, Sasha, Naomi, Eva Marie etc.
Where is it??
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Post by chronocross on Jun 23, 2016 16:59:17 GMT -5
More Old School WWF house shows, one of my favorites was the 6-man elimination match from Feb.1987 at MSG with Piper/JYD/Steamboat vs. Adonis/Race/Savage.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 17:28:36 GMT -5
The 90s episodes of WCW Saturday Night. Prior to Nitro, this was WCW's main programming. Surprised very little of this has been posted. I'd also suggest Thunder, for the lulz.
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Post by Doogie Bowser, MD on Jun 23, 2016 17:35:28 GMT -5
What WWE has up is the syndicated USWA Dallas show, not the KTVT show. Yes I think this was the version seen on SportsChannel. That and GWF Major League Wrestling. (Supercard was the ESPN show) I am trying to sort this out in my head. I think USWA only had the syndie and Dallas shows. WCCW had a syndie, ESPN, and Dallas (?) Am I right in saying USWA (Dallas) only was aired on ESPN when Pedicino had stake in it for starting up the GWF? In 1991? And of course GWF was on ESPN from 1991-93...but was Major League Wrestling and the Dallas show one and the same? I know SportsChannel had MLW, but near the end/post-end of ESPN they had unedited versions of what made it to ESPN in 1993. Then they carried GWF's weekly until the promotion closed in 1994. What's also interesting -- and complicated -- is there's a Texas indy that has the rights to use the GWF name. Look on Facebook and YouTube for "GWF Onslaught." They've also been posting complete episodes of the original GWF from 1994. So....help fill in the blanks here... WCCW (Adkisson) = all WWE's. WCCW (Jarrett) = Has anything from that era popped up on anything WWE? It was part of the Savoldi holdings, so.... USWA = WWE has only what was in Savoldi's collection? Meaning the ESPN era from 1991 (which would include syndication I assume)? However, the Austin matches they used were from 1990. So...syndicated version, ESPN shows maybe? KTVT....not sure. GWF = WWE has only ESPN era/Savoldi holdings? Supercard and Major League Wrestling? KTVT unknown...but on the WWE 50th DVD special, they did show a montage of the companies they owned, and the opening to the KTVT GWF show is seen. I believe Kevin Von Erich only had what was from World Class as a family operation. That's what he sold to WWE. Anything after that period was under different ownership. WWE's USWA content is from the same package as the syndicated GWF stuff, when the USWA was actually a super-regional promotion with two offices. The ESPN USWA show was Memphis content. There are likely odds and ends from all of the above that are post-Adkisson World Class or Memphis (i.e. Lawler/Funk empty-arena was Memphis, but WWE has had it for years because it was in the AWA catalogue), but nothing that would warrant its own Network section. Memphis post-Nick Gulas is a complete mess. Tape-wiping was common for many TV stations and producers up to the early 1980s. The closest to any full masters collection that remains is Jim Cornette's off-air VHS recordings of the Louisville TV show. Various master tapes or really good copies pop up for random WMC weekly shows, on occasion. Nobody asserted any rights those many years ago, and Memphis was run with a variety of money marks involved at different points. The last money mark (Mark Selker) effectively owns all of the USWA trademarks and theoretically the rights to any of the Memphis circuit content produced as the USWA, and has never cut any deals.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jun 23, 2016 18:45:56 GMT -5
Super Astros
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Post by Ken: The Hero of WWE on Jun 23, 2016 22:52:16 GMT -5
Other entertainment entities. I feel that the WWE needs content that isn't just pro-wrestling. They should try to get reruns of Tosh.0 or It's Always Sunny or just make similar original show themselves. The only non-wrestling shows I would be cool with seeing on WWE Network would be other "sports entertainment" type fare like XFL, monster trucks, roller derby, the Harlem Globetrotters, American Gladiators, Sasuke, and WMAC Masters. The WWE Network needs Takeshi's Castle.
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Post by sonofsharknado on Jun 24, 2016 0:55:30 GMT -5
Everything. Literally all the things in the tape library. All the movies, buy the rights to every show where a wrestler has made a guest appearance that was a significant/plot relevant portion of the episode (Like Psyche or those episodes of Smallville). All the things.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jun 24, 2016 12:10:35 GMT -5
I mainly want these
90's Superstars FCW The first three seasons of NXT 2013 NXT WWECW Thunder Coliseum Home Video stuff
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jun 25, 2016 14:45:37 GMT -5
Everything fron 24/7 that isn't up let.
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Post by ANuclearError on Jun 25, 2016 15:51:19 GMT -5
People commentating on older matches, like how Austin does in his podcast from time to time. Would be sweet.
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Post by Jiren on Jun 25, 2016 17:16:31 GMT -5
classic adverts fromthe vhs tapes
- silver vision - ppvs on vhs ads
while nothing great, i think they'd make fun little novelties
also a superstar search, say i put in sasha it'll then bring up all the shows she's been on
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