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Old 04-11-2019, 04:13 AM   #849
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Originally Posted by xrodmuc316 View Post
I don't like AEW airing TNT or TBS, as they already pulled the plug on wrestling before. I just don't trust them.

The PPVs being on HBO on the other hand is brilliant. That would be a great move that would ensure they know they will get a minimum amount of $ guaranteed with option for bumps based on subscriptions or solo buyrates. Either way, it would be pretty awesome.
I don't know if they have the exact same decision-makers, but dude -- they're run by the same company.

The whole "TNT fucked over WCW" bullshit is just that. They pulled the plug on a company costing them $60 million in losses, an almost exponential decline, with no revenue stream even giving a glimmer of hope that it could be rectified. Killing off WCW made perfect sense. They were losing money on each show, their PPVs never got above a 0.25 after 1999. People lean on the ratings, but they were decreasing, they weren't going to get better (Vince had all the difference-makers) and advertisers frowned on wrestling in the first place.

Now you've got an entirely different landscape. Cable has shifted, dramatically. There are chord-cutters and live entertainment is one of the few things that seems to be testing well with people. That is why Vince is able to charge so much for his bullshit programming. Vince has also worked his bollocks off to make WWE palatable for advertisers in these dying days of cable, where nostalgia for things like wrestling could be an attraction in itself, as opposed to a mere actuality when it first happened.

There's no Eric Bischoff in AEW, so I think they'll be fine not pissing off the hand that feeds them. And the world is so different now. It's not the same environment, and it's not the same management as WCW, and it's not Warner's personal losses given that the Khans are going to pumping their own money into it in order for it to succeed, and they'll wear the losses if the Warner money stops coming in.
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