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Post by eJm on May 1, 2024 0:58:03 GMT -5
Brought the rights to in the same way they did for the library with the royalty free WWE music. You have a license to use it for a certain amount of time you have to renew. So NBC probably would have to, and easily could, do the same.
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Post by eJm on Apr 30, 2024 15:33:48 GMT -5
My only counter to that is, it was overperforming but it wasn't really making that much money. It never recovered from the losses of the year 2000 and with everything else that happened, it was easier to put it on the chopping block than hope it can rebound in some way.
Like, it sucks but also calling it "petty BS" feels like an oversimplification and lazy. If it was making a profit in some way, in a time it really needed to, it would have still been in business for longer. End of.
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Post by eJm on Apr 30, 2024 15:31:46 GMT -5
As someone who was 5 hours late this week, he was probably caught in an airport somewhere. It's tornado season and flights are delayed like crazy. With a charter flight, you can generally avoid delays caused by poor airline planning, but still subject to weather issues. The article makes it seem like he was locked in a trailer playing video games. That's assuming it was a one time thing. The article points it is has been a recurring issue. And, like...all those excuses would be fine if you were getting there and for some reason needed to be on set the same day instead of the next one. Those excuses come harder to find if you are living there for weeks to months getting this project done. Especially when it's your production company doing it and you're the lead actor. The project is 100% reliant on you.
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Post by eJm on Apr 30, 2024 15:05:22 GMT -5
"Let's see what was airing the same time during the Monday Night Wars that wasn't Wrestling..." " Dark Angel Sabrina the Teenage Witch killed wcw!" it was revenge for all the wrestlers randomly turning up. Booker T: I personally blame Charmed. The politics Shannon Doherty and Alyssa Milano played to go over me and Scott Steiner?! Killed the credibility of the entire business.
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Post by eJm on Apr 30, 2024 14:48:18 GMT -5
"a wizard did it" pretty much the only option that hasn't been discussed about the death of wcw at this point. "Let's see what was airing the same time during the Monday Night Wars that wasn't Wrestling..."
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Post by eJm on Apr 30, 2024 13:15:02 GMT -5
Silver linings… He did it for the people. This would be like if you worked on a David O Russell movie and every time he made an actor cry or slapped someone, you were obligated to one free therapy session. Which if that were actually a thing, the therapist industry in California would be thriving.
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Post by eJm on Apr 30, 2024 13:11:30 GMT -5
If this does well, are Dwayne and Vice TV going to finally crack the case on the Montreal Screwjob?
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Post by eJm on Apr 30, 2024 12:43:13 GMT -5
The bit about him showing up seven or eight hours late on some days is f***ing wild. No wonder it seems like studios have almost entirely stopped working with him of late compared to how he used to be in everything. Like, far be it from me playing conspiracy theory here but it can't be a coincidence that the Amazon talk died pretty quickly after Dwayne got appointed onto the board. And, far be it for me to defend Amazon in any way, I can't say I blame them if that was the case. You treat our movie like that and then you expect to be a vocal point of our streaming in association with WWE? F*** that.
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Post by eJm on Apr 30, 2024 8:04:29 GMT -5
Hell, I’m not even sure WBD *could* match that offer if they wanted to. Or if they did they’d suddenly started shelving even more movies for tax breaks to try to make up for it. Yeah, by all accounts, they don’t want to do that because a) the shares will tank further because the shareholders will think they overpaid and b) like you said, they can’t afford to. It will be interesting what happens and what that’ll mean for the AEW deal since, as of writing, they’re very much in the exclusivity period. I’d also not be surprised if we hear stories at some point, if the deal isn’t done by the end of that period, that we hear about interested companies snooping since regardless of it being pro wrestling, having the number 1-5 show on a Wednesday every week and only losing to sports and big news stories is nothing to sneeze at.
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Post by eJm on Apr 30, 2024 7:24:13 GMT -5
Just say that when the draft starts, all unprotected wrestler contracts are null and void and everyone is a free agent. That would solve so much and stop all this “Why did they draft someone they already had?” stuff. Like, I think that’s what’s implied, but you know what wrestling fans are like, thinking the worst of everything. Yeah, you can even make it into angles during the show where someone's happy about being on one brand and wants to stay there and then tell the story of what happens when they're on a different brand ala Booker T in 2004 post HHH trade. It's super weird they don't just say that and integrate it into the stories considering everything else they've tried to fine tune and iron out the past year.
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Post by eJm on Apr 30, 2024 2:42:56 GMT -5
WBD can match any NBA offer though, correct? I thought they had the right to match any offer. They do have the option to match any offer. That doesn't guarantee them anything though. The NBA might be interested in their games being on NBC over TNT because they are in more homes. That’s the key thing, if NBC is making that sort of bid, the counter is to make a bigger one and WBD from the off seemed to not be interested in doing that. The thing about saying Zaslav is bad at his job is that a lot of the decisions he makes could be slightly justified by going “Well, at least they have the NBA” and looking at how well that’s still doing to basically balance the financial scales (ignoring the government investigations about everything else going on right now but anyway). If they lose the NBA, well, if I were a shareholder, I’d basically want his head.
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Post by eJm on Apr 29, 2024 19:26:55 GMT -5
Like…Charles Barkley signed a new deal with WBD worth 8 figures for 10 years last year. And I’d be shocked if Ernie, Kenny and Shaq were in any way small. Ernie can do other sports, the f*** are the rest going to do there if they aren’t covering basketball games?
There’s no world where Barkley does a Dwayne Wade and attempts game show hosting. I’d like to live in that world but I don’t think it’s this one.
Add to that, instead of having AEW lose to sports on your sister station, it’ll be losing to your rival when the season starts. AND you’d be putting your eggs in a brand that’s still establishing itself as an alternative to one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world.
The entire prospect of this is mindboggling.
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Post by eJm on Apr 29, 2024 18:05:18 GMT -5
Guys this is something to keep an eye on.
Like, if this ends up being WBD losing all their rights, after the year they’ve had on top of the demos for all the NBA games this year, someone should be fired. No logical reason for that to happen, even for cost cutting.
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Post by eJm on Apr 29, 2024 11:38:13 GMT -5
It's a banned source so take it with a thousand pieces of salt but WrestleVotes seem to think that the chances of it going to Minnesota are decreasing and the Vegas chances are increasing. It's also not really a surprise because, someone pointed out, they didn't host a press conference recently in Minneapolis, they hosted one in Las Vegas and considering it'd be easier to organize a UFC event around that same time than it would be there..
Just more saying it before it's brought up by others and hopefully someone more reliable says something.
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Post by eJm on Apr 29, 2024 10:27:25 GMT -5
WBD not keeping any of the NBA would be bizarre. When would the last time be that there was no NBA on TNT? 1989, basically. There's no scenario in my book where they don't keep some portion of their NBA rights, the past few months of demo topping NBA and NCAA basketball basically says they're obligated to keep it as well as find ways to make something from those Inside the NBA contracts, but WBD being a company desperate to cut costs wherever they can get whilst keeping the momentum on cable they've had is a situation I'm glad to have zero decision making power with. There's no option that doesn't hurt in some way or fashion.
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Post by eJm on Apr 29, 2024 9:52:52 GMT -5
Many people have been saying the NBA TV deal will play a big part in what happens with AEW & Warner so this belongs here
By all accounts, NBC really wants some NBA matches to put on USA and potentially Peacock and Amazon's also putting in an interest so I wouldn't be shocked if WBD puts themselves on a lower tier in the next bit of negotiations to try and get some games, leaving them more room to balance that, Inside and AEW in terms of tiers since, outside of College Basketball, those are the top programming on TNT/TBS at this point. Throwing this out there, too, with ClarkMania set to run wild, it'll be interesting if, say, Amazon/NBC don't get the NBA, they could turn to get stuff like the WNBA which has not only exploded in interest the last while but there's zero reason to think it won't be much more profitable in the long term. Heck, WBD could and make Candace Parker the vocal point considering her recent retirement leaving her free. It'll be way more interesting how it all turns out, especially since we're talking about a company that needs to cut costs without losing marketability (WBD), a company with money to burn to boost their streaming (Amazon) and a company that somehow isn't looking as rough as its contemporaries in the last few years (Comcast). And going back on topic, if NBA matches are decreased, the only people to benefit the most is AEW. WBD loves their success, wants to do more for them and has more wiggle room to do that instead of moving them around repeatedly.
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Post by eJm on Apr 29, 2024 8:17:52 GMT -5
he's from London, of course he is a Liverpool fan. just like everyone in Ireland is a Man U fan. Hey, that's not fair! Half of Ireland are Man U fans. The other half are Liverpool fans. - Signed "Guy who lives in an apartment with passionate Liverpool fan and whose family are also Liverpool fans".
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Post by eJm on Apr 29, 2024 7:37:50 GMT -5
DDP, I think. He did a special intro to one of the episodes - I think the one where he had his first big face turn rejecting the Outsiders' invite to join the nWo. Buff evidently watched as well? I like Reliving the War, I've been in with it since episode one because I'd already started watching the show before he started it. It's quite refreshing having someone go back and look at this shit with fresh modern eyes and make you realise that in 1999, you kinda wonder why anybody watched *either* show some weeks I've been listening to Bryan and Vinny monthly compilations for that same reason, even if they're harsh on some stuff, and I also wonder how people watched some weeks. Just yesterday, I listened to Bryan talk about one where it felt like, in his words, "The Monday Night Wars were in full swing!" because of how good both shows were. That one show was in July 1999. Surrounded by a bunch of bad shows and about 4 years into the actual ratings wars. And just to add, while we're talking about it, for all the complaining about wrestling now, there's zero way either WWE or AEW would start a show off with something in comparison to Wrath vs. Mike Enos. Not even the NWA in the year of our lord 2024 would do that. How did either company win?
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Post by eJm on Apr 26, 2024 13:12:44 GMT -5
I don't wanna get doxxed or swatted here but this really didn't need the Punk footage, didn't need it in a literal sense and it didn't need the weeks of wank orbiting around it, it's been great otherwise and the footage nonsense has been the outlier. Literally everything else has been great. Everyone cries about lack of vignettes and everything else. The footage is a very unique take on the idea of vignettes. It established Jack Perry as someone who was physically attacked by a coworker, then suspended by his boss, over words. He was gone from TV for 8 months, and the video perfectly explains why and how unnecessary it was. Matt Jackson even went out of his way to call it nothing more than a schoolyard tussle. It makes no sense to show that footage in a vacuum. With the context of the last few weeks, and especially that Dynamite ending, it makes 100% sense. The other thing to remember is that, regardless of if they did show it or not, the whole incident would have followed Jack to every promo, segment and match he did for the rest of time. You might as well try and cash in on it, right?
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Post by eJm on Apr 26, 2024 6:27:15 GMT -5
Hot take; hearing the context of the NBA playoffs being followed by Collision, holding off Swerve's first promo until then is exceedingly smart. With that younger demo watching anyway, you open that show with Swerve talking and recap the match on Dynamite? Makes all the sense in the world from a marketing perspective, especially when regardless of what you do right now, you're losing to Sports and it's never going to change.
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