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Post by Cyno on Nov 22, 2023 17:30:06 GMT -5
As far as financials go, it means the CW is paying Billy Pumpkins for the show on the app. And he seriously needs the money. As far as exposure, viewership numbers, etc? Absolutely nothing. If anything it might be worse in that regard. Yeah it’s really weird since the app for the specific channel. Companies usually only use their website for next day free reruns. First run programming, you’d think they’d put it on paramount or max since cw is owned by cbs and Warner brothers The CW is now majority owned by Nexstar, which is why the budget on the average CW show has cratered even worse compared to the last few years. WBD and Paramount only own a 12.5% stake each in the channel since the sale.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Nov 23, 2023 3:18:09 GMT -5
I'm not American so don't quite get this. What's the advantage of being on this app compared to YouTube? CW pay, while YouTube doesn't for wrestling content. A bunch of promotions got burned when YouTube changed their policy on monetisation a few years back now and they lost a major revenue source overnight. They may not pay him much, but something beats nothing.
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Post by oknazevad on Dec 13, 2023 0:34:40 GMT -5
This is the first time I've heard this to be the case. What's the source?
Yeah, I never heard that, either. From 1994 up to today, ECW, TNA, and any other company that used the NWA tied it to the NWA that formed in 1948. I remember reading about it many years ago (I mean like two decades at least) that part of the settlement when WCW left was that WCW could refer to former NWA champions as explicitly as former WCW champions. Meaning that WCW could claim the entirety of the NWA lineage for their title (which for all practical purposes was the true continuation of the title). And then, the other thing that I skipped over, was that the NWA name was signed over to the WWF during the 1997 "invasion" angle with Cornette. Corny mentioned that as part of his comments about Corgan buying the rights. He and others questioned whether the NWA even still owned its own name, including former NWA president Howard Brody. www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/former-president-claims-nwa-is-wwe-property/
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Post by cjh on Dec 13, 2023 14:55:33 GMT -5
Yeah, I never heard that, either. From 1994 up to today, ECW, TNA, and any other company that used the NWA tied it to the NWA that formed in 1948. I remember reading about it many years ago (I mean like two decades at least) that part of the settlement when WCW left was that WCW could refer to former NWA champions as explicitly as former WCW champions. Meaning that WCW could claim the entirety of the NWA lineage for their title (which for all practical purposes was the true continuation of the title). And then, the other thing that I skipped over, was that the NWA name was signed over to the WWF during the 1997 "invasion" angle with Cornette. Corny mentioned that as part of his comments about Corgan buying the rights. He and others questioned whether the NWA even still owned its own name, including former NWA president Howard Brody. www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/former-president-claims-nwa-is-wwe-property/Like I said, from 1994 to now, the NWA hasn't acted like such a deal with WCW happened. For 29 years, they've acted like the title Chris Candido, Dan Severn, the guys in TNA 2002-2007, and everyone since then has held is the same title that was created in 1948. WWE also acts like the WCW World Title was created in 1991. According to Cornette, WWE got permission to use the NWA name going forward in 1998 when using their footage archives. They've never owned the TM, though, and have never released NWA merchandise. In one recent WWE video game, they recreated the name graphics Jim Crockett Promotions used but replaced the NWA logo with the 1989-1999 WCW logo.
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