NWA May Have Just Snorted Away CW TV Deal

[chrom]

Might be even bigger, as she for all her blunders and idiocy never lost a TV slot to another promotion

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Billy "Earnest Byner" Corgan

[Feargus McReddit]

Nov 7, 2023 15:29:54 GMT -5 chrom said:

Might be even bigger, as she for all her blunders and idiocy never lost a TV slot to another promotion

If anything, TNA’s the only company in history to be acquired to replace WWE programming when Spike got them.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Nov 7, 2023 15:29:54 GMT -5 chrom said:

Might be even bigger, as she for all her blunders and idiocy never lost a TV slot to another promotion

Billy Corgan really is a modern day Paul Heyman.

[Natural Born Farmer]

Nov 7, 2023 15:25:04 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

According to Mike Johnson, NXT might get the CW deal instead of NWA.

If that’s the case, Billy Corgan might actually rival Dixie Carter as the owner with the biggest TV fumble.

Hilarious if true.

But as dumb as it was to give the segment the green light, was it so egregious that The CW can back out of an agreed to and announced deal because of it?

Sure the NWA had already started making some investments in production and promotion in anticipation of it.  Feels more like the CW would have to pay them to go away at that point than just being able to say "changed our minds".

[Feargus McReddit]

Nov 7, 2023 15:39:07 GMT -5 Natural Born Farmer said:

Nov 7, 2023 15:25:04 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

According to Mike Johnson, NXT might get the CW deal instead of NWA.

If that’s the case, Billy Corgan might actually rival Dixie Carter as the owner with the biggest TV fumble.

Hilarious if true.

But as dumb as it was to give the segment the green light, was it so egregious that The CW can back out of an agreed to and announced deal because of it?

Sure the NWA had already started making some investments in production and promotion in anticipation of it.  Feels more like the CW would have to pay them to go away at that point than just being able to say "changed our minds".

They could have some kind of morality clause or anything like it that would have been more than enough of an excuse to scrap the deal.

[markymark]

NWA will get relegated to the CW app then, Corgan indirectly helped NXT turning a profit once CW/NXT deal is 100% official.

[Mike Strike]

Nov 7, 2023 15:25:04 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

According to Mike Johnson, NXT might get the CW deal instead of NWA.

If that’s the case, Billy Corgan might actually rival Dixie Carter as the owner with the biggest TV fumble.

In fairness, NXT is simply a much more valuable brand to get. It's at least an upgrade over Velocity.

[HMARK Center]

So the news report said CW and WWE have been negotiating for "weeks". That mean the cocaine spot didn't really play a role here? Unless CW was thinking of having both shows, or were choosing between the two of them depending on how much money they were seeking?

[markymark]

Billy fkd up big time.

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Billy Corgan might be the worst wrestling promoter of the last 30 years, and that's a really impressive mantle to take because there are some awful people on that list

But you screwed your company out of its biggest exposure in years after running it into the ground with f***ing Tyrus, I hope wrestlers ditch this promotion after this tbh

And even if CW didn't choose NXT over them after this event, they still chose NXT and dropped them after it, and that's a really bad look

This promotion's a hollow shell of itself and has been for ages now, and Corgan blew the one shot they may have had to turn that image around, and he blew it, well, he snorted it.

[Feargus McReddit]

Nov 7, 2023 16:24:19 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

So the news report said CW and WWE have been negotiating for "weeks". That mean the cocaine spot didn't really play a role here? Unless CW was thinking of having both shows, or were choosing between the two of them depending on how much money they were seeking?

Another report said that CW were scouting many wrestling promotions to fill the spots so I guess it could be argued WWE made the best argument and Corgan’s mistake was being the one to leak that they were apparently the top choice when they very much weren’t.

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Could we see NWA end up on FS1 now as a result? Or worse FS2?

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Nov 7, 2023 17:13:52 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

Nov 7, 2023 16:24:19 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

So the news report said CW and WWE have been negotiating for "weeks". That mean the cocaine spot didn't really play a role here? Unless CW was thinking of having both shows, or were choosing between the two of them depending on how much money they were seeking?

Another report said that CW were scouting many wrestling promotions to fill the spots so I guess it could be argued WWE made the best argument and Corgan’s mistake was being the one to leak that they were apparently the top choice when they very much weren’t.

I still say that regardless, Corgan comes out of this looking like a giant idiot

Can't really dodge that report that CW saw the cocaine angle and balked. There's a chance CW signed both NXT and NWA to different deals for their channel and Corgan just screwed the pooch.

[Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story]

Nov 7, 2023 17:13:52 GMT -5 Feargus McReddit said:

Nov 7, 2023 16:24:19 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

So the news report said CW and WWE have been negotiating for "weeks". That mean the cocaine spot didn't really play a role here? Unless CW was thinking of having both shows, or were choosing between the two of them depending on how much money they were seeking?

Another report said that CW were scouting many wrestling promotions to fill the spots so I guess it could be argued WWE made the best argument and Corgan’s mistake was being the one to leak that they were apparently the top choice when they very much weren’t.

Yeah, he's an idiot for talking shit and running the angle, but it feels pretty apparent it didn't play that much of a role in this instance. WWE has never let other promotions run on the same network as them.

[markymark]

"Samantha Starr, one of Billy Corgan top females ,was on the PTR podcast a week or two ago talking about the TV deal. She claims that CW had spent most of the last year filming a reality TV show about the promotion and it was nearing completion, so they clearly had more than simple agreement."

[chrom]

Way to go Peanut head

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

Nov 7, 2023 15:38:49 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Nov 7, 2023 15:29:54 GMT -5 chrom said:

Might be even bigger, as she for all her blunders and idiocy never lost a TV slot to another promotion

Billy Corgan really is a modern day Paul Heyman.

Nah Billy's worst. At less Heyman got a TV show on the air first before losing TNN to the WWE. NWA couldn't even debut.

[government mule]

cocaine is a hell of a drug

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]