WWE: The Channel
 

OK so now we know that the WWE Network is planned for sometime next year in 2012...the real question I wanna know is what type of programming would you put on such a network?

-WCW Programming
-Classical WWE stuff from the Attitude Era and 80s and earlier.
-ECW (I'm thinking late night programming called ECW After Dark)
-PPVs

What do you think we'll see?

-ECW (I'm thinking late night programming called ECW After Dark)

Hehe

I'd love for them to show every Raw and Nitro in chronological order.

They should do a special on Scott Hall...

...it could be called "CHICO! Life on the Edge".

Fucking this

The Marine, every Monday night at 9PM EST!

I'd like to see some reality stuff on there like WWE Cribs and something that follows them on the road for a bit.

I like the Legends of Wrestling Roundtable stuff.

Maybe bring back WWE Confidential too.

WWE's Greatest Rivalries.

Make it into a show.

Follow a specific feud over the course of how many episodes/weeks it takes. Just show all the segments and matches involved in chronological order. Perhaps with commentary if you can fit it in there.

wwf primetime!!

i want vintage heenan!

:lol: ECW After Dark :lol:

I'd settle for anything, as long as it isn;t edited at all..... If they don't want to air Attitude Era/ECW "risky" segments or shows, put them on at midnight..... I don't want to see edited versions of anything, but I know that it won't happen.....

Superstars and NXT for starters

I wonder if they'll continue to have RAW on USA and Smackdown on Syfy.

Does this mean no more WWE 24/7 or that was only meant as a temporary thing until the WWE finally got around to getting an actual tv channel?

I hope they work double-time and do whatever they can to be able to say "WWF" and show the old logos uncensored.

Maybe the new network will inspire them to once again try to do something about that.

Yeah they will, too much money at stake.

They will premiere them on USA and SyFy but they could always air the reruns of that week's show.

The cribs thing is a good idea..but I don't think every wrestler is living the luxury life so might be like 10 episodes

GTV should make a return....

"On this episode of WWE Cribs, we tour Tyler Reks' 1 bedroom, half bath luxury apartment."

Is there anything they're able to do about it, though?

Pay the WWF a shitload of money and add some sort of disclaimer at the start of the shows promoting the Fund.

So no.

I never really read up on the specifics of the deal, so I wasn't sure if it was even feasible. Although if they're not making people pay for the channel (which is a long shot at best), I could see playing a 5 second [pose] promo to start certain segments.

If it's that simple, it's definitely possible. I imagine there's more to it than that, though.

Besides, they've already gone through the trouble of editing so much for so many DVDs, why not just use what they've already edited? Probably not worth it given the hours already devoted to keeping the logo/mentions off the product.

Nah, there's nothing really out there on it, but I would imagine that what I said would be what they'd have to do, along with Vince crawling to the Fund on his hands and knees.

Yeah, I have to assume that, at this point, everything from the Attitude Era has been censored and blurred. Really, it's only about five years worth of material and they've been working on it for years.

Block logo stuff is easy enough even if it's not finished since it's really just censoring them saying "WWF" and any "W W F" signs in the crowd.

I mean, I would love to be able to see stuff from that time like it was when I watched it live, but now it just doesn't seem possible or worth it.

Plus a lot of it is on YouTube or Dailymotion or some other site. Is it the best quality? No, but it's also free so how much can one really complain?

I thought the terms from the lawsuit only meant anything from the scratch logo era or Attitude era had to be blurred and censored while anything from the Block Era was ok to leave alone.

I'd assume most of the changes with the Block logo was due to them switching to an HD feed or setup for the on-screen logo placement so there wouldn't be two logos on the same screen. The WWE should also still have the original uncensored and non-blurred tapes of their stuff unless they were dumb enough to do all the edits on the original copies in case they ever decided in the future to get the Panda group to allow them access to the scratched logo again.

I just get annoyed watching and having the audio drop, and the constant blurred images everywhere.

Takes me "out of it".

It is a big part of why I don't buy more DVDs.

The blurred images I don't mind for some reason.

Audio dropping out does bug me a lot, even though I know it can't be avoided.

It's been almost 10 years. I'm used to it

Would love to see this. I would also enjoy them airing some of the older documentaries like Jake "The Snake", Rise and Fall of ECW, and Monday Night Wars.

Classic films re-made with WWE superstars

Star Wars: A New Hope

Darth Vader - Vince McMahon
Luke Skywalker - Shane McMahon
Princess Leia - Stephanie McMahon
Han Solo - Triple H
Chewbacca - The Great Khali
R2-D2 - Hornswoggle

That's all I've got for now

since they own the film footage from most territories they could show each one from it's earliest episode in order. I'm in my 40's and would enjoy that.

They will probably also show the Roundtables that they do for WWEonDemand.

Plus I'm sure we'll see Tropical Thunder, Hogan's wrestling cartoon, and whatever other old shows with wrestlers in it they can find. I know WCW had one that used to come on Saturday Mornings with some Lyle Alzado (former Oakland Raider) playing a wrestler and WCW guys always made cameos.

It'll be the XFL Network... as this is doomed to fail.

I think it's only doomed if they don't use the vault of film they have.

Supposedly the channel was supposed to be up a couple years back, but they wanted to wait until most of their library was put to digital.

The morning block could be some of the comedic stuff japan does, you know for the kids, some Razor Ramon HG, Tiger mask and so on, the afternoon could feature the roundtable stuff, maybe some of the DVD documentaries, the evening could be kicked off with an Ellen rerun or if they cant get that, some Tuesday Night titans, pipers pit, what have you. the vening could be an anything goes marathon on different nights of the week like Nick at nite used to do with I love Lucy bewitched blah blah blah., late night could be ECW interspersed with Z True Long Island Story.