WWE removes Heyman from creative, Bruce Pritchard to oversee all creative

[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat 8PM & 9PM are the two hours they would want, not the 10PM since those are the more valuable primetime hours. If it was as easy as dropping the 3rd hour and making up the money difference elsewhere, USA and WWE would have done that by now. Instead neither wants to for ratings and money reasons. Investors care a lot about that third hour since under the old tv deal, it was bringing in around the same to more per year than what WWE is currently getting from their NXT tv deal. Now, it dwarfs what they were getting before from it. Nice to assume all I do is listen to Meltzer you utter wank of a poster.

You said nothing no one doesn't know in this post. It was all already addressed. There are plenty of reasons they wouldn't have already done it. Simplicity, stubbornness, arrogance, determination and convenience among them. It doesn't mean a solution is impossible, nor is one ultimately undesirable, especially if someone who has Vince's trust and can apparently do well in the slot comes around and says "This is actually impossible and you've gotten away with it for eight years, it's time to work out something else to get fans back."

As I've already said, ironing out required viewing hours could increase the value of not only Raw, but NXT, as well as potentially redirecting content to other platforms that have value to NBC Universal. It could increase the value of the NXT deal as well as a potential Peacock deal or create another hour outside that 10pm slot or two where WWE content boosts the overall standing of USA, even if it means taking a hit on Monday night.

Investors care about the bottom-line. Fuck, I can basically repeat everything I said. If Vince worked out something where the $265 million per year deal stayed in place, but they could redirect the third hour or could somehow guarantee better ratings for both Raw and NXT so USA can charge more for ad space, then investors aren't going to give one flying fuck that Raw goes down from three hours to two hours. They probably wouldn't even care if Raw took a $65 million per year hit if they found another way to recoup it -- announcing international shows, a new show, effective cost-cutting, etc. Especially if it all occurred at the same time and meant they were making more of a profit than ever before.