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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Dec 20, 2022 20:56:29 GMT -5
It makes all the sense in the world for NBC to outbid FOX for SmackDown to keep the sale option more open and have complete access to the WWE product across all platforms.
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Post by BradMKE on Dec 20, 2022 21:40:43 GMT -5
From a realistic standpoint- in a time of cord cutting along with the Friday Night death slot, shouldn't Fox be pleased with Smackdown? I haven't researched it myself but my original post about their lack of enthusiasm revolved around the situation that was mentioned in a post following mine....The fact that WWE was pulling in big numbers at the time and had seemingly promised double what they are doing now Nobody realistically expected 4 million viewers. Their reach didn't increase that much with the move to Fox. Either way, over a 52 week period WWE is still bringing them more viewers than they had before when you factor in a mix of first run shows, re-runs and other random Friday programming Fox previously had.
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Post by polarbearpete on Dec 20, 2022 23:07:13 GMT -5
I haven't researched it myself but my original post about their lack of enthusiasm revolved around the situation that was mentioned in a post following mine....The fact that WWE was pulling in big numbers at the time and had seemingly promised double what they are doing now Nobody realistically expected 4 million viewers. Their reach didn't increase that much with the move to Fox. Either way, over a 52 week period WWE is still bringing them more viewers than they had before when you factor in a mix of first run shows, re-runs and other random Friday programming Fox previously had. Yeah around the time of the debut on Fox, a Fox sports executive said they were looking at realistically doubling their Friday viewership which had been at 1.2 million, and maybe going a little higher. So they were looking at 2.4-2.5 million I’m guessing, which isn’t too much higher than where they’re at now. The reports from Meltzer and Fightful were in contrast to that, saying Fox wanted 3.3 million.
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