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Post by Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer on Jan 4, 2015 17:07:02 GMT -5
Did a British man eat Linda a few months ago or something? Is that it? I don't think Vince has ever forgiven the UK for daring to be subject to a Terrorist attack on the same day he was to air that Undertaker/Hassan/masked men angle and having no choice but to scrap the Hassan character. Hell, I still don't think he's over Sky Sports cutting out the segment with him making Trish crawl around the ring and bark from Raw in 2001!!
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Post by thecrusherwi on Jan 4, 2015 17:51:37 GMT -5
Definitely sucks when the status quo changes, but that still doesn't sound like too much compared to the American prices. Before the network, NXT hadn't been televised since 2010, and our PPVs were $54.99 without any freebies (almost 36 GBP). So don't get me wrong, I sympathize, but you guys have had it pretty good over there as far as PPVs were concerned.
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Post by Boo! on Jan 4, 2015 17:54:01 GMT -5
Definitely sucks when the status quo changes, but that still doesn't sound like too much compared to the American prices. Before the network, NXT hadn't been televised since 2010, and our PPVs were $54.99 without any freebies (almost 36 GBP). So don't get me wrong, I sympathize, but you guys have had it pretty good over there as far as PPVs were concerned. But you could be in bed by 11pm, we can't. It's cheaper because the ridiculous o'clock time it's on. If they were live US time 1am-4am they wouldn't charge $54.99 for them, I'd imagine.
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Post by thecrusherwi on Jan 4, 2015 17:57:15 GMT -5
Definitely sucks when the status quo changes, but that still doesn't sound like too much compared to the American prices. Before the network, NXT hadn't been televised since 2010, and our PPVs were $54.99 without any freebies (almost 36 GBP). So don't get me wrong, I sympathize, but you guys have had it pretty good over there as far as PPVs were concerned. But you could be in bed by 11pm, we can't. It's cheaper because the ridiculous o'clock time it's on. If they were live US time 1am-4am they wouldn't charge $54.99 for them, I'd imagine. Definitely a fair point, just offering an alternate perspective from this side of the pond
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jan 4, 2015 17:58:43 GMT -5
Definitely sucks when the status quo changes, but that still doesn't sound like too much compared to the American prices. Before the network, NXT hadn't been televised since 2010, and our PPVs were $54.99 without any freebies (almost 36 GBP). So don't get me wrong, I sympathize, but you guys have had it pretty good over there as far as PPVs were concerned. But you could be in bed by 11pm, we can't. It's cheaper because the ridiculous o'clock time it's on. If they were live US time 1am-4am they wouldn't charge $54.99 for them, I'd imagine. That and although not anything to do with PPVs but hasn't Raw always aired on channels in the USA that don't cost any extra to watch? It's always been on channels that are part of a basic package, in the UK, Raw is on a channel you have to pay extra on top of your cable package.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Jan 4, 2015 18:01:38 GMT -5
Definitely sucks when the status quo changes, but that still doesn't sound like too much compared to the American prices. Before the network, NXT hadn't been televised since 2010, and our PPVs were $54.99 without any freebies (almost 36 GBP). So don't get me wrong, I sympathize, but you guys have had it pretty good over there as far as PPVs were concerned. I think it's just because the concept of PPV is (thankfully) still quite a rare thing in this country. I remember when Sky were recently selling a Premiership Plus PPV package which consisted of 40 Premier League games for £40 and that died a death very quickly. When people are unwilling to pay £1 per game for our national sport, I think shows how little we accept the PPV concept in the UK.
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Post by Boo! on Jan 4, 2015 18:03:57 GMT -5
But you could be in bed by 11pm, we can't. It's cheaper because the ridiculous o'clock time it's on. If they were live US time 1am-4am they wouldn't charge $54.99 for them, I'd imagine. That and although not anything to do with PPVs but hasn't Raw always aired on channels in the USA that don't cost any extra to watch? It's always been on channels that are part of a basic package, in the UK, Raw is on a channel you have to pay extra on top of your cable package. Yeah lets break out those violins.. ...Sky Sports sub costs a bomb. It's like £35 minimum per month I think. So to watch all WWE programming UK viewers not only had to age rapidly through sleep deprivation, it also cost us $64 for the privilege
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Post by Boo! on Jan 4, 2015 18:04:14 GMT -5
But you could be in bed by 11pm, we can't. It's cheaper because the ridiculous o'clock time it's on. If they were live US time 1am-4am they wouldn't charge $54.99 for them, I'd imagine. Definitely a fair point, just offering an alternate perspective from this side of the pond Haha, I know...it's fine.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 18:05:31 GMT -5
Definitely sucks when the status quo changes, but that still doesn't sound like too much compared to the American prices. Before the network, NXT hadn't been televised since 2010, and our PPVs were $54.99 without any freebies (almost 36 GBP). So don't get me wrong, I sympathize, but you guys have had it pretty good over there as far as PPVs were concerned. I think it's just because the concept of PPV is (thankfully) still quite a rare thing in this country. I remember when Sky were recently selling a Premiership Plus PPV package which consisted of 40 Premier League games for £40 and that died a death very quickly. When people are unwilling to pay £1 per game for our national sport, I think shows how little we accept the PPV concept in the UK. PPV can be pretty handy, but then you have things like, "You can watch To Kill a Mockingbird... but it'll cost you $6!" Like, I could probably get a DVD copy of it cheaper than that. Maybe I just wanted to rant about having gotten DirecTV the other day and finding their PPVs so overpriced as to not bother with, you decide.
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Post by thecrusherwi on Jan 4, 2015 18:07:14 GMT -5
But you could be in bed by 11pm, we can't. It's cheaper because the ridiculous o'clock time it's on. If they were live US time 1am-4am they wouldn't charge $54.99 for them, I'd imagine. That and although not anything to do with PPVs but hasn't Raw always aired on channels in the USA that don't cost any extra to watch? It's always been on channels that are part of a basic package, in the UK, Raw is on a channel you have to pay extra on top of your cable package. You're basically correct. Raw is on paid cable, but even the most basic paid cable packages have USA Network. So it would at least cost you about $20 a month to get a basic cable package. But considering like 80% of America has basic cable, it feels free.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Jan 4, 2015 18:09:45 GMT -5
The network is coming in the UK before the RR so the UK is fine
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 18:13:23 GMT -5
The network is coming in the UK before the RR so the UK is fine Just like it came before Hell in a Cell, before Survivor Series, and before the end of the year.
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Post by Boo! on Jan 4, 2015 18:13:27 GMT -5
Price rise maybe looks like WWE trying to make Network more appealing by increasing the price between the Network sub and PPV cost from £5 to £10
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Post by thecrusherwi on Jan 4, 2015 18:15:48 GMT -5
Definitely sucks when the status quo changes, but that still doesn't sound like too much compared to the American prices. Before the network, NXT hadn't been televised since 2010, and our PPVs were $54.99 without any freebies (almost 36 GBP). So don't get me wrong, I sympathize, but you guys have had it pretty good over there as far as PPVs were concerned. I think it's just because the concept of PPV is (thankfully) still quite a rare thing in this country. I remember when Sky were recently selling a Premiership Plus PPV package which consisted of 40 Premier League games for £40 and that died a death very quickly. When people are unwilling to pay £1 per game for our national sport, I think shows how little we accept the PPV concept in the UK. That's crazy. NFL Sunday Ticket over here, which gives you all the afternoon regional NFL games is like $350 bucks for the season and millions of people order it. Out of curiosity, any of you UK natives know what boxing is like over there? Over here, you can hardly see anything without going broke. All the "midcard" top fights are either on HBO or Showtime, which is like $13 a month each and the big blockbuster fights like Floyd Mayweather's fights cost like $70 each on PPV
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Post by Boo! on Jan 4, 2015 18:18:56 GMT -5
Sporting rights here are absurd. The last Premier League (soccer) contract cost broadcasters $2.7bn per 10 month season, expected to shoot up further when new deal announced in coming weeks.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jan 4, 2015 18:21:49 GMT -5
I think it's just because the concept of PPV is (thankfully) still quite a rare thing in this country. I remember when Sky were recently selling a Premiership Plus PPV package which consisted of 40 Premier League games for £40 and that died a death very quickly. When people are unwilling to pay £1 per game for our national sport, I think shows how little we accept the PPV concept in the UK. That's crazy. NFL Sunday Ticket over here, which gives you all the afternoon regional NFL games is like $350 bucks for the season and millions of people order it. Out of curiosity, any of you UK natives know what boxing is like over there? Over here, you can hardly see anything without going broke. All the "midcard" top fights are either on HBO or Showtime, which is like $13 a month each and the big blockbuster fights like Floyd Mayweather's fights cost like $70 each on PPV Pretty much the same here as most boxing airs on Sky Sports (which as mentioned earlier, costs extra money to subscribe to) or Sky Box Office (which costs £15 an event). Although the majority of fights with any public interest air on Sky Box Office.
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Post by Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer on Jan 4, 2015 18:22:36 GMT -5
I think it's just because the concept of PPV is (thankfully) still quite a rare thing in this country. I remember when Sky were recently selling a Premiership Plus PPV package which consisted of 40 Premier League games for £40 and that died a death very quickly. When people are unwilling to pay £1 per game for our national sport, I think shows how little we accept the PPV concept in the UK. That's crazy. NFL Sunday Ticket over here, which gives you all the afternoon regional NFL games is like $350 bucks for the season and millions of people order it. Out of curiosity, any of you UK natives know what boxing is like over there? Over here, you can hardly see anything without going broke. All the "midcard" top fights are either on HBO or Showtime, which is like $13 a month each and the big blockbuster fights like Floyd Mayweather's fights cost like $70 each on PPV Boxing has been on various platforms over the years, its been on free to air, like ITV and Channel 5, and on premium pay TV with Sky Sports and on pay-per-view. The PPVs (though I've not seen one advertised in a while, all now on Sky Sports) cost the same as a WWE PPV. I'm not too clued up on boxing promotion, but I assume what channel a fight/event is aired depends on what promotion/US network (and joint agreements with international partners) is hosting it.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jan 4, 2015 18:25:02 GMT -5
Sporting rights here are absurd. The last Premier League (soccer) contract cost broadcasters $2.7bn per 10 month season, expected to shoot up further when new deal announced in coming weeks. Sky will pull out every stop and do everything in their power to keep the main Premier League package. Seeing as of next season, BT Sport take over Champions League coverage, I'm sure their prices will go up (not sure how long they'll keep the "you get BT Internet, you get BT Sport free" deal going).
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 4, 2015 18:26:46 GMT -5
I never pay for them anyway, and I'm only mildly interested in the ones on Sky Sports.
These days, catching up on the results is usually enough. PPV's haven't been must-watch for about 15 years.
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Post by Boo! on Jan 4, 2015 18:28:19 GMT -5
Sporting rights here are absurd. The last Premier League (soccer) contract cost broadcasters $2.7bn per 10 month season, expected to shoot up further when new deal announced in coming weeks. Sky will pull out every stop and do everything in their power to keep the main Premier League package. Seeing as of next season, BT Sport take over Champions League coverage, I'm sure their prices will go up (not sure how long they'll keep the "you get BT Internet, you get BT Sport free" deal going). Sky now do free broadband for 2 years even if you're not a Sky customer with no obligation to be one either beyond free broadband. It's quite odd. I was very surprised Sky lost the Champions League - as I suspect were they. BT only have to match what Sky get when the 167 games are sold in a few weeks and theyll have taken Sky's mantle as premier sports right holders.
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