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Originally Posted by Tom Guycott
No one will ever be "that guy" if the presumption is correct in panicking over buyrates. They'll keep booking potential main eventers in a "why should I give a shit about them?" kind of way while trying to hotshot the next new face into credible world dominance in the span of two PPV's.
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Totally. WWE investors create pressure for improbably high ratings performance of always going up week after week. The office at Titan Towers needs to cool down and recognize not every new viewer (teenager, grade schooler, whoever) is going to watch on a separate TV instead of crowding around with friends and family at home or at a sports bar (one Nielsen view for every all people in the room).
I'm sure power outages like Superstorm Sandy also cause a tenth or fifth of a Nielsen drop. WWE needs to think about the ratings two or three months away instead of obsess over recent history.
And in hindsight, WCW may have limited its own ratings through "Nitro parties" because fewer TVs were turned on and tuned in for the same number of viewers.
