Monthly News Thread (May 2018)

[WingsMJN2965]

Return of the seagull pops.

Roman to Smackdown in the next Superstar Shakeup. (E5)

 

[M.C.G. 31]

Only way it stays live imo is if Smackdown talent work Friday-Monday and the Friday show is live. Raw talent works Friday-Monday too, Monday live obviously.

Sad it’ll probably be taped, hope not though. Hope the “massive” deal is so massive that it’s forced to stay live to get full value.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

To be fair, the move to Friday isn't from a great source.

If it is going on the Main Network, I doubt it will be taped

If it goes to Friday I doubt it'll be live.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

From a roster standpoint, I fully expect WWE to keep building up Seth Rollins and when the Smackdown move comes, one of Roman or Seth move to Smackdown.

Friday isn’t a premium TV timeslot though. Tuesday or Wednesday would have been much better.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

Whoa. Hollywood Reporter (no idea how credible it is) says 5 years, $1-billion.

Holy f***

How do you NOT keep it live if that’s the deal

 

[WingsMJN2965]

From a roster standpoint, I fully expect WWE to keep building up Seth Rollins and when the Smackdown move comes, one of Roman or Seth move to Smackdown.

Friday isn’t a premium TV timeslot though. Tuesday or Wednesday would have been much better.

FOX ain't giving up those nights on the main network for a show that averages 2.5M viewers lol.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

FOX ain't giving up those nights on the main network for a show that averages 2.5M viewers lol.

What plays on FOX in the 8-10pm timeslot on those days? Because Smackdown, even at 2.5m, kills it in the 18-49 demo and is always a top ranked show on Tuesday nights.

For example, only thing I see above it from this past Tuesday was ESPN.

 

[Cor]

Whoa. Hollywood Reporter (no idea how credible it is) says 5 years, $1-billion.

Holy ****

How do you NOT keep it live if that’s the deal

200 million a year.

About right.

Fox isn't paying that for a taped show though

 

[Cor]

What plays on FOX in the 8-10pm timeslot on those days? Because Smackdown, even at 2.5m, kills it in the 18-49 demo and is always a top ranked show on Tuesday nights.

For example, only thing I see above it from this past Tuesday was ESPN.

This Fall, Fox's 8-10 pm is Last Man Standing, Another sitcom, and then Hell's Kitchen.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

200 million a year.

About right.

Fox isn't paying that for a taped show though

Yup. And Meltzer was saying 80-160m is the easy street for them. They more than doubled the 80m.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

Probably 3 hours. Vomit.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

If it’s on the main network I don’t think FOX would preempt their 10pm news for Smackdown. The reports were if Raw moved to FOX it would have been two hours (and then you could have bet Smackdown would have been three to make USA happy if they split the shows like they did now on two separate networks).

 

[M.C.G. 31]

I can already see WWE bringing out The Rock on Smackdown for their first show on FOX in October 2019.

The Greatest Smackdown (Live?) 2019.

 

[GKJ]

Smackdown just became the A-show

 

[Paris in Flames]

At that price I can't imagine it's taped. That's crazy ass money

 

[GKJ]

It’ll still be tape delay out west, but of course it’s live. Why did anyone think it won’t be?

 

[WingsMJN2965]

It’ll still be tape delay out west, but of course it’s live. Why did anyone think it won’t be?

Because airing it live on Friday's would involve WWE changing the way they've scheduled things for nearly 20 years now...

 

[Lunatik]

Because airing it live on Friday's would involve WWE changing the way they've scheduled things for nearly 20 years now...

With Fox throwing the bank at them and reportedly putting it on the main network, they would be stupid to not change things for this deal. I can't Fox paying a billion dollars for something that will be leaked 3 days earlier if it's not live.

 

[Lunatik]

I also assume this means that the $300 million we're hearing for Raw, would be per year?

 

[Kimi]

I think people massively overrate the effect of tape delay has on actual average viewers.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

I think people massively overrate the effect of tape delay has on actual average viewers.

I think you need to go check the Smackdown viewership before and after they went live...

 

[Lunatik]

I think people massively overrate the effect of tape delay has on actual average viewers.

if you look at when SDL went Live, the 10 weeks after the change drew about 300k more per week than the 10 weeks before the change

 

[WingsMJN2965]

if you look at when SDL went Live, the 10 weeks after the change drew about 300k more per week than the 10 weeks before the change

In an era where WWE frequently has bad or missable shows, (And where they put notable segments on Youtube to view) people are going to read ahead to see if they should waste two hours watching.

 

[Balance]

SmackDown's ratings didn't increase because they went live

They increased because they created a real brand split and returned a main title back on SD television and reorganized the entire show's format to not be a continuation of Raw's storylines.

 

[Lunatik]

SmackDown's ratings didn't increase because they went live

They increased because they created a real brand split and returned a main title back on SD television and reorganized the entire show's format to not be a continuation of Raw's storylines.

I didn't realize you spoke for all the viewers. Thank you for that.