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Originally Posted by The CyNick
Heyman, you seem to miss the point that Smackdown draws as many if not more viewers than RAW on a regualar basis. And as Ive said a million times, if you do anything to make SD look like a "Sunday Night Heat" type show, they will draw SNH ratings, which aren't great.
Even though its true that RAW will always get special treatment because its been around longer, and mostly because HHH is on that show, SD still gets their own PPVs, their own house shows and they get half billing on the major PPVs. So even though RAW may seem like #1, SD isn't treated as a minor league organization like you are suggesting. They may get treated as the #2 group, but its not to the point that people see it as the minor leagues compared to RAW.
Once they do that (turn it into a B show), then people will turn away from SD in droves and ratings will go down to similar levels to Heat and Velocity. At that point UPN is going to call Vince and say "what the hell is going on?" and will likely cancel SD. Which would cost Vince a lot of money.
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When Smackdown recieved a higher rating a few weeks ago, it was reported that Vince was upset that Raw did'nt do better.
The notion of Vince being upset that Raw didn't do better clearly supports the claim that the WWE prefers Raw over Smackdown.