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Mr. Marcus
03-24-2004, 03:13 PM
Credit: WWE.Com

World Wrestling Entertainment launches WWE 24/7


New SVOD Service to expand business with cable and satellite partners

75,000-hour library spanning 4 decades of ratings-proven programming to supply content for new digital platforms, including potential digital channel

New York, N.Y., March 24, 2004 – World Wrestling Entertainment has unveiled a major initiative intended to utilize its 75,000-hour programming library to build new mutually-beneficial businesses with its cable, satellite and other worldwide television partners.




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There's more, go to the site if you wanna read it all.

The "75 000" hours worth of programming includes WWE, WCW, ECW, and several independant promotions that Vince bought at some point or another.

I think this sounds sweet if they pull it off, depending on the price of course.

Your thoughts?
Mr. Marcus
03-24-2004, 03:33 PM
I also noticed that there was no official launch date, anyone have an idea of when this is going to happen?
Rock Bottom
03-24-2004, 03:37 PM
Wow, I hope that goes through!
Funky Fly
03-24-2004, 03:38 PM
That would be sweet if it were reasonable priced and left unedited (ie. no host explaining crap that's pretty obvious).
Kane Knight
03-24-2004, 03:41 PM
This has the potential to be awesome, but as with any WWE venture, I'm still a little skeptical.
Mr. Marcus
03-24-2004, 03:43 PM
This has the potential to be awesome, but as with any WWE venture, I'm still a little skeptical.


Likewise.


How much would you be willing to pay for this unlimited access of footage?


I'd add $10 on my cable bill, anything over that I'd question.
Corkscrewed
03-24-2004, 03:46 PM
This has the potential to be awesome, but as with any WWE venture, I'm still a little skeptical.
:y:
HHHsucks929
03-24-2004, 03:56 PM
Is that a cable channel we're talking here? That would be sick.
Loose Cannon
03-24-2004, 05:00 PM
OH MAN, this would own.
PureHatred
03-24-2004, 05:07 PM
Video-On-Demand...means you would have a library of programs you could order from. If your cable company has this service, and you wanted to watch, say WM13, you order it off the box and pay an extra $6 or whatever on your next cable bill.
Loose Cannon
03-24-2004, 05:08 PM
Video-On-Demand...means you would have a library of programs you could order from. If your cable company has this service, and you wanted to watch, say WM13, you order it off the box and pay an extra $6 or whatever on your next cable bill.

Oh that's what this is. Oh crap, I thought this was a cable channel. Dam.
Shaggy
03-24-2004, 05:15 PM
Oh that's what this is. Oh crap, I thought this was a cable channel. Dam.

Thats what I thought we were talking about to. There might be a few old PPV's I might order but there I would have to say that they would be better off just making all that into a wrestling channel on tv. We need it over here in the U.S. There is always nothing in the TV. And if we had wrestling on 24/7 It could be the greatest thing Vince has done since making the WWE big.
road doggy dogg
03-24-2004, 05:16 PM
It better be on Directv so I can watch it all 4 free
PureHatred
03-24-2004, 05:42 PM
I don't understand why the WWE HASN'T made its own channel yet. And not just for the archived footage. Imagine all the WWE original programming...a show based on the OVW showing what it really takes to make it to the WWE, a weekly program like Hardball where JR verbally berates some hapless Net writer, a SportsCenter-like weekly news program, and every night at 3 am they remind marky fans how bad wrestling could be by showing old episodes of Saturday Morning Superstars (this weeks Main Event...Scott Casey vs 'Iron' Mike Sharpe!!!)
Lamuella
03-24-2004, 05:45 PM
why haven't they done that?

simple: there isn't the audience for it right now. It won't be profitable until the costs of running a cable channel are much lower.

Sure, some hardcore fans would buy into it, but the majority of WWE's fans want to watch RAW, Smackdown, and not much else. THat's why Velocity and HEAT get crap ratings compared to RAW
Kane Knight
03-24-2004, 05:58 PM
why haven't they done that?

simple: there isn't the audience for it right now. It won't be profitable until the costs of running a cable channel are much lower.
Nail on the head here.

Keep in mind they couldn't even establish enough air time for a seperate wCw brand. If the people already in the programming biz won't take a chance on 2-4 hours a week, what market could there be for a full wrestling channel?

Of course, I think this is largely the WWE's own fault. They really killed interest in wrestling. First, they hooked in TONS of people in the 90s, but couldn't keep them. Then, they decimated their competition, leaving their shows as the only ones out there. Since this killed a lot of exposure for wrestling in the US, a lot of the interest also died (On top of already lackluster programming).

Considering the whole inVasion angle, to paraphrase Rob in another thread, was a wet dream come true RIGHT up until Vince tried it...

Of course, I'm not totally blaming Vince or anything like that, but I feel that the WWE had a lot to do with it. A monopoly may be good on necessity items (Like computers have become), but an entertainment monopoly in a specialised field is bad business, especially when you're killing it with limit exposure and crap storylines.
PureHatred
03-24-2004, 06:19 PM
Granted, there's a limited audience (and I agree that most of the fault for that goes to the WWE for driving viewers away in droves) but a cable channel that at first would only be showing taped footage can't be a worse investment than, say, the XFL.
Mr. Nerfect
03-25-2004, 12:49 AM
I think it should be pretty good. Wish we had a date so I uld start couting money, though.
Kane Knight
03-25-2004, 12:55 AM
Granted, there's a limited audience (and I agree that most of the fault for that goes to the WWE for driving viewers away in droves) but a cable channel that at first would only be showing taped footage can't be a worse investment than, say, the XFL.
Depends on how much it costs.
Pegasus Crawford
03-25-2004, 01:13 AM
http://www.wwe24-7.com/

There's the offcial site there.
Kane Knight
03-25-2004, 03:32 AM
"WWE is more than just television and Pay-Per-View programming, with fans that will follow us wherever we go."

...But we hate the internet, where some of our most loyal fans congregate.

"WWE excels in all of its business areas including live events, publications, home video and more. Every element of WWE’s business strengthens the relationship between our fans and the WWE Superstars and storylines."

Wow. The ego masturbation and PR shit is spreading thick here.

:lol:
darkpower
03-25-2004, 04:12 AM
Oh that's what this is. Oh crap, I thought this was a cable channel. Dam.
Well, that would be even better, then, because that is something that many of the big time cable companies (like Comcast, which added On Demand to the Digital Cable lineup a month or so ago) would want to be pushing right now (and what they really ARE trying to push. The serive is rather awesome, because it's sort of like Tivo. You can actually order it, and then it is like a video tape that you can rewind and fast forward, pause, or stop and resume as much as you want (for whatever the "rental window" time would be, normally 24 hrs.). Some of the shows they have on the service are actually free of charge. It's really sweet.
Shaggy
03-25-2004, 09:24 AM
So this anyone know how this thing is gonna go. From the way it looks to me is that you get the channel on your tv and then you just pay for the channel and you can choose for what you want to watch. Is that true or is it just like another PPV channel. Everything I am reading is confusing me.