>>15961393>How, if cable TV is getting phased out each year?The assumption you're making is that AEW is a brand on par or level with WWE, or even within striking range of it. It's not. It's not even in striking range of NXT which is literally a wrestling school that gets any and all attention it has because of the WWE branding. Wrestling as a whole is not a major hobby in and of itself. This isn't a company seeing Marvel making movies and going "Oh let's get some comic book IP". To the vast majority of the mainstream "wrestling" is synonymous with WWE and nothing else. AEW is not going to grow as a brand from being on a major network or brand, because it's been on one for 5 years and has done the opposite. The idea that its talent can draw viewers, new or old, has been proven untrue.
>They can very easily report the viewer count for streaming servicesThey can do alot of things easily, but networks are loathe to give peeks behind the curtain at viewership because they gain nothing from it. Fans will want their show on no matter the viewer count number. Theyre fans. And networks would rather not share viewership numbers when they use them for ad sales. Look at Netflix and how closely they guard their shit. Or Disney and how they manipulate theirs to for spin.
>WWE does PPVs on streaming. They're fine. Once again conflating WWE with AEW. This has been AEW's issue for its entire existence. This want and need to be validated by comparing itself to something it is not even close to replicating.
