Thread: Wrestlemania on NBC?
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Old 04-05-2016, 08:55 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Simple Fan View Post
I doubt a Wrestlemania on NBC would only get 4 million viewers. They only had about 400,00 people join the Network for the free month. No telling how many people watched it illegally. With all the other content and NXT on the Network they would still make all the money from the Network plus what ever money they got from NBC for broadcasting rights.
That's the $64000 question though. There's no real way to price it without doing it, but I'm of the belief without Mania, The Network probably has less than 500k subs (maybe less). Things like NXT and the library IMO are only draws for the most hardcore fans.

I don't thing Mania is a strong enough TV product to draw a huge casual audience like the Super Bowl does for the NFL. I wouldn't expect much more than the weekly RAW audience. But who knows. I just look at it like they're making more today with the network model than they were with the ppv model, and they still have huge international markets that are not saturated yet. I think 2 million subs is a realistic at some point. Why would you mess with that type of revenue stream?
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