New voiceover - Same lines

[edgehead]

What are times you all have noticed this happening on the network? At Wrestlemania 12, the Hollywood Backlot Brawl originally had Todd Pettengill doing the Voiceover on the hype package, but it's been replaced with Michael Cole. Any reason why?

[Brainbustaaah!]

Mar 27, 2016 13:44:46 GMT -5 edgehead said:

What are times you all have noticed this happening on the network? At Wrestlemania 12, the Hollywood Backlot Brawl originally had Todd Pettengill doing the Voiceover on the hype package, but it's been replaced with Michael Cole. Any reason why?

Maybe it was something to do with royalties?

[cjh]

It's the result of the music being changed.

The same thing happens on the ECW pay-per-views as most of the commentary by Joey Styles during wrestlers' entrances are new voiceovers because changing the music caused his voice to be lost. For some reason, though, on the ECW Unreleased sets, a couple of the same matches didn't have that problem as WWE managed to change the music while still keeping Joey's (or Joey and Cyrus's) original commentary.

[DiBiase is Good]

I haven't watched it on the network yet but I remember them changing the commentary on Playboy Buddy Rose's blow-away diet a few years later. It was just some random guy (from what I can tell anyway) on the original SNME/TME broadcast but later on it had Jerry Lawler doing the commentary.

[Alice Syndrome]

at SS01 at the Tag Title unifier, the announcer introduced both teams as WWF Tag team Champs, and the graphics were the wrong way around.

For some reason, the DVD "Fix" of this resulted in EVERYTHING being the wrong way around except the belts.

Even on the Network, the Hardys are introduced as WCW Tag champs despite visibly holding the WWF belts

[burdette25159]

Mar 28, 2016 2:12:05 GMT -5 DiBiase is Good said:

I haven't watched it on the network yet but I remember them changing the commentary on Playboy Buddy Rose's blow-away diet a few years later. It was just some random guy (from what I can tell anyway) on the original SNME/TME broadcast but later on it had Jerry Lawler doing the commentary.

And Vince McMahon too

[Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer]

Mar 28, 2016 0:27:22 GMT -5 cjh said:

It's the result of the music being changed.

The same thing happens on the ECW pay-per-views as most of the commentary by Joey Styles during wrestlers' entrances are new voiceovers because changing the music caused his voice to be lost. For some reason, though, on the ECW Unreleased sets, a couple of the same matches didn't have that problem as WWE managed to change the music while still keeping Joey's (or Joey and Cyrus's) original commentary.

Wasn't that why New Jack's matches were missing from the Network at first, and Twitter had some conspiracy theories on his absence? As New Jack had his music play through his matches, entire matches had to be redubbed by Joey Styles.

[cjh]

Mar 28, 2016 17:36:21 GMT -5 Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer said:

Mar 28, 2016 0:27:22 GMT -5 cjh said:

It's the result of the music being changed.

The same thing happens on the ECW pay-per-views as most of the commentary by Joey Styles during wrestlers' entrances are new voiceovers because changing the music caused his voice to be lost. For some reason, though, on the ECW Unreleased sets, a couple of the same matches didn't have that problem as WWE managed to change the music while still keeping Joey's (or Joey and Cyrus's) original commentary.

Wasn't that why New Jack's matches were missing from the Network at first, and Twitter had some conspiracy theories on his absence? As New Jack had his music play through his matches, entire matches had to be redubbed by Joey Styles.

Yes, that's right.  There is one New Jack PPV match that has the original commentary (vs. Mustafa at Living Dangerously 1999).  I'm not sure why that is.

Thankfully, on ECW's two TV shows, almost all of the commentary was done days or weeks later during post-production, so changing the music without affecting the announcers is easy.

[MAD TITAN]

Survivor Series 98 had a kickass intro package where the wrestlers do voiceover about wanting to be champion... In the Network version they have some monotone dude dubbing over the lines in the most boring way possible.

[Doogie Bowser, MD]

Depends on how the shows were produced, and the master copies. Sometimes, the music & commentary can't be divorced from each other, because of them being on the same audio track. Of course, WWE multi-tracks all of their audio now (as well as archiving every camera angle and audio feed possible), but that wasn't always the case.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Apr 4, 2016 14:42:16 GMT -5 Doogie Bowser, MD said:

Depends on how the shows were produced, and the master copies. Sometimes, the music & commentary can't be divorced from each other, because of them being on the same audio track. Of course, WWE multi-tracks all of their audio now (as well as archiving every camera angle and audio feed possible), but that wasn't always the case.

A lot of these tapes haven't exactly been kept in the greatest condition either, because it wasn't until after the turn of the century when DVDs took off and people figured out they could get money by selling old content and had the means to do so efficiently.

[Doogie Bowser, MD]

Apr 25, 2016 23:14:54 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

Apr 4, 2016 14:42:16 GMT -5 Doogie Bowser, MD said:

Depends on how the shows were produced, and the master copies. Sometimes, the music & commentary can't be divorced from each other, because of them being on the same audio track. Of course, WWE multi-tracks all of their audio now (as well as archiving every camera angle and audio feed possible), but that wasn't always the case.

A lot of these tapes haven't exactly been kept in the greatest condition either, because it wasn't until after the turn of the century when DVDs took off and people figured out they could get money by selling old content and had the means to do so efficiently.

WWE found that out the hard way when they really started digging through what they'd purchased from TBS.

[BorneAgain]

They've done this with Wrestlemania promos before:

Wrestlemania XIX Promo

Wrestlemania XX promo (Forgive the crude quality)