No More free PPV's for UK'ers
 

An investor breakfast was held on Wednesday by WWE. They discussed the WrestleMania XX DVD set being a 3-disc set and will include the TV special The Mania of WrestleMania, which is good for international fans that will not get a chance to see the show. Linda McMahon confirmed that there would be two extra pay-per-views in June and October. The show in October will be aired on a Tuesday night and will be a RAW event. There was also mention of UK fans having to pay for pay-per-views after WWE’s contract expires with BSKYB later this year. Finally they said that the video library will have to be edited due to music rights issues, as well as the situation with old logo.

Source: Rajah.com

When is that mania of wrestle mania?

I know one thing. I'm never ever paying money for a PPV that I have to watch at 1am on a Monday morning. If WWE want to make money out of me then they will have to reschedule the starting times to make it more conveniant.

BSkyB doesn't carry WWE events on PPV now because of high demands from Vince McMahon. Dana White from the UFC also has commented on this because he had to look for an alternative PPV carrier in the UK. I think there is a chance all shows will become PPV but nobody here will pay for them if they all are (one now and again now is a struggle when you have shows that finish at 4am on a Monday morning).

Got to agree that making PPV's actuall Pay-per-views in the UK will kill wrestling.

It's not so much staying up til 4am that worries me, but I have an issue with speding all that dough every 4 weeks!
All that will happen is that people MAY watch the joint events, but the solo RAW/SD PPV's will be dead.
Rumble and Mania will pull a few viewers but that's it.

End Result - Loss of interest/fans in the UK.

In fact if that happens I'm gonna stop paying for Sky Sports.
What's the point?

Football and wrestling are all I watch on Sky Sports anyway.

Culturally I don't think PPV is too popular in the UK, not like in America :/

I don't mind paying for the odd one but I can't see myself doing it for anything other than Royal Rumble or Wrestlemania.

I'll get broadband or another chipped cable box if worse comes to worse.

I won't even be able to order WrestleMania, my family all hates wrestling so my parents aren't gonna fork out £14 for me to see it. If PPV goes to actual PPV, I may have to call it a day on wrestling. I don't see SmackDown now anyways, and I only see Raw every now and again.

Wrestlemania XX is on Sky Sports 1

Raw 2 weeks ago pulled 300,000 viewers

that's pretty popular IMO

300,000 would be quite large yes... but the manner that TV ratings are worked out means that I would be surprised if that many people actually watched. There is also a massive difference between people willing to watch Raw and people willing to stay up until 4am watching a program which they also have to pay for. To be honest I can see this idea tanking terribly.

If they get anywhere near 300000 for a 1am PPV that has to be paid for I'll eat my f</>ucking TV

^LOL.

I have said for a while now that if Sky were clever, they would have made the Royal Rumble, Maina, SummerSlam and The Survivor Series the PPVs, and leave the rest being free.

They couldn't, the reason the ones that are pay events now are those particular ones goes back to the aborted deal with C4...the PPVs that you have to pay to see are the ones Sky picked back up after C4 dropped them, the rest are still free under the existing contract they had. If C4 had never tried to muscle in on the scene they'd all still be free.

Yeah I wasn't sure, I thought that Sky would have re-bought the rights to WEE events since the Channel Four deal was changed to Sky. I guess Sky had a long term deal.

They haven't even had 50,000 buys and that was for UK PPVs in good time slots or for the big shows. Remember, there is a reason Sky don't release buy rates.

The problem with only paying for the Big 4, it makes the other 10 PPVS (with the extra 2) look like lesser events.

Either way, you UK'ers are getting screwed.

How much did you guys say buying a PPV at 1am in the morning is going to cost you?

BUT anyways like hell you're going to pay money to stay up all night, when you used to be able to simply watch it for free.

For the last time, this is the biggest misconception when talking about WWE TV - We do not get it for free (UK people are more to blame since they say they do). You pay £40 a month for the Sky subs and Sky Sports 1,2,3 ans Xtra are the top package. For you North Americans, it's like having cable and then having to get HBO or Showtime.

However, the 4 shows which run on PPV cost in the region of £15 each.

I will never pay for a PPV.

lol! Dunno if that was supposed to be funny, but it was.

I think that cutting off that many viewers at a time when you really need to be attracting them is a big mistake. I can barley be bothered to stay up and watch PPVs when they're free at the moment (the product just isn't that good that it's worth it). I might get my family back home to tape WM for me, but that's just cos it's WM.

The argument they'll come up with will have something to do with how true fans won't mind going that bit further to see the shows. But the problem is that diehard fans are about all WWE has right now. The people they need to be roping in are casual fans, and they ain't gonna pay £15 for a 1AM wrestling show, especially when most other PPV shows cost less and are on at better times. The biggest UK sporting events are all free because of Terrestrial getting first dibs.

PPV is a bad thing and anything which brings more of it into the country is negative IMO. :n:

PPV is good but only when there is an alternative. Like how we get a game on Premiership Plus as well as the live Sky Sports game. It's not good when it's pay or get nothing (as weird as that sounded, I'm sure you'll get the point).

There's also the part where Sky offer a package deal for the football PPVs though which works out significantly cheaper than buying them one at a time...I can't see WWE doing that somehow

I don't have Sky Sports :(

I paid for that PPV that was on Setanta Sports but I don't think I got charged for it :?:

I meant after this WrestleMania.

Nearly anyone in the developed world can get every WWE PPV and show, NWATNA Show, all the latest movies, and all the latest games.

You just need one thing.

Broadband.

So you never paid for it then? Why say you did when you didn't? I guess that's £15 straight in Starbucks pocket then eh?

It would be but the nearest Starbucks is in Murton.

That's quite a trek.

Jeesh I only earn £240 a month (college/part time) and now WWE want a slice monthly. Jeesh, I can see myself either going in on a ppv with a friend or not watching any of the minor ones.

Fu</>ck off.