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The Gongshow

The Gongshow

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Wouldn't it be cheaper to just have one show a week rather than 3. 2 of which are filmed the same night and probably don't do as well as RAW
 
Frankie Spankie

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That's not even a big arena to justify funneling the crowd onto one side. It must also be great crowd interaction to look at a bunch of empty seats to look at the hard cam too.
 
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GKJ

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There's no point in going to these small towns for TV. What incentive is there? The crowds are absolutely awful. Why go to towns that can't fill half the building when you can put 12,000 in a large town?

It is way better live when you're there. The go-home show for Wrestlemania, I got to be at and was on the floor and I thought the show was great. Then I saw people saying the show sucked and the crowd was dead, which it never was. Muting the crowd doesn't help either.
 
Fro

Fro

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dayton used to be a HUGE wrestling town...there's a reason ECW went there so much...this is more a stance on a) ticket prices b) the product being produced right now
 
GarbageGoal

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As someone said the town appears to be losing population. Yet it hosts the "first four" NCAA tournament games every year. Maybe it's just a college town now and wrestling is no longer cool.
 
Pinkfloyd

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M.C.G. 31 said:
Obviously they make more money than the cost to run them.
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Yeah but that may only go as far as the TV deal does. As far as I'm concerned the split is still in their best interest even if it is a pure money thing. From a talent perspective, only having to be on one show a week keeps you fresher and it takes longer for your character to go stale. Whether the product sucks or not, that's still a good thing regardless.
 
M.C.G. 31

M.C.G. 31

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It's good for the company and talent all around. The only ones who complain are the message board posters who want more variety.

WWE is making more money with unique travelling main roster groups, it's a big deal when an opposite brand star randomly appears (see: Rollins, Vancouver) and the talents are only working four day loops rather than five.
 
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The Lunatic Fridge

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Keeping talent on one show is irrelevant either way as they still have to travel thousands of miles whether its to TV or house shows.

If they didn't have a 2nd TV show they'd just add an additional house show day. (which makes less money than a TV show obv)
 
Pinkfloyd

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The Lunatic Fridge said:
Keeping talent on one show is irrelevant either way as they still have to travel thousands of miles whether its to TV or house shows.

If they didn't have a 2nd TV show they'd just add an additional house show day. (which makes less money than a TV show obv)
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It's not irrelevant because preventing overexposure of your talents is very relevant to how successful they will be in the long term. I don't disagree that it's not going to matter to their travel schedule but it does matter to their money making potential.
 
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