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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:06:49 No.10170499 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>10170516 >>10170556 >>10170562 >>10170589 >>10170597 >>10170651 >>10171091 >>10171119 >>10171258 >>10171392 >>10171483

>1 billion dollars for AEW streaming
What the fuck is wrong with them?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:11:44 No.10170516 Report

Quoted By: >>10170532

>>10170499
Adjusted for inflation, does wcw even come close to being this much of a money loser? That’s all meltzer can ever bring up is that time wcw spent $60 mil.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:14:49 No.10170532 Report

Quoted By: >>10170540

>>10170516
The AOL merger still beats this by a landslide I think but this is pure insanity that AEW is getting this much money from WB during a financial restructuring. All while it draws less then Big Bang Theory reruns

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:16:25 No.10170540 Report

Quoted By: >>10171380

>>10170532
The Saturday show is going to do terrible ratings also..

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:20:27 No.10170556 Report

Quoted By: >>10170586

>>10170499
Stable content with no off season and the headache of writer's strike.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:21:51 No.10170562 Report

Quoted By: >>10170586 >>10170604

>>10170499
Paying for 3 shows 52 weeks a year for the price of a BBT season is great value. They were getting an absolute steal before.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:24:50 No.10170586 Report

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>>10170556
>>10170562
No one else was even bidding for aew

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:25:57 No.10170589 Report

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>>10170499
they are not getting 1 billon lmafo who the fuck believes this retarded shit? isn't the s in smark supposed to be for smart?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:27:08 No.10170597 Report

Quoted By: >>10170607 >>10170611 >>10170632

>>10170499
Agree with the anon above, the writer's strike is forcing studio execs to look for alternative revenue models. Wrestling is cheap to produce, you don't have to deal with writers, and it can be loaded with ads. It makes little sense to compare AEW to WCW in terms of television deals, viewing habits have completely changed. $1 billion ain't what it used to be either, you're dealing with companies that have oligopolies and just want control of the entire audience.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:28:15 No.10170604 Report

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>>10170562
how much did tucker carlson make at fox? he was the top rated show on Wednesdays wasn't he?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:28:41 No.10170607 Report

Quoted By: >>10170611

>>10170597
>AEW is going to kick into a sweetheart deal by being in the right place at the right time
Tony Khan is the luckiest bitch in the world

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:29:25 No.10170611 Report

Quoted By: >>10170620

>>10170597
>>10170607
you're retarded if you think the strike has anything to do with this deal which has been under negotiation for months

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:32:19 No.10170620 Report

Quoted By: >>10170652

>>10170611
It certainly wouldn't have hurt, you'd be an idiot to think otherwise. The general perception of wrestling with studio executives is that it's cheap entertainment, this means that in the past they would have looked down on it and seen it as a liability because of concerned parents groups and nervous advertisers. The perception has changed, especially seeing how much megabucks Wrestlemania draws. Networks are starting to see wrestling as a safer investment.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:34:52 No.10170632 Report

Quoted By: >>10170932 >>10171236 >>10171296

>>10170597
>Wrestling is cheap to produce

Tony is over paying a bloated roster full of indy-shitters

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:38:57 No.10170651 Report

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>>10170499
Shad Khan's influence obviously, do you think Tony brokered this deal on his own? lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:39:09 No.10170652 Report

Quoted By: >>10170659 >>10170998

>>10170620
>certainly wouldn't have hurt, you'd be an idiot to think otherwise.

it's irrelevant, the strike is 2 weeks old, billion dollar rights agreements aren't negotiated that quickly, reminder this deal was reported as completed before the srirke even began

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:41:24 No.10170659 Report

Quoted By: >>10170687

>>10170652
The strike didn’t just come out of nowhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:46:22 No.10170687 Report

Quoted By: >>10170714

>>10170659
and neither did the deal you simpleton

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 11:51:49 No.10170714 Report

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>>10170687
Yea you’re right, the fact that Tony knew he was getting this deal must be the reason he’s been so comfortable tanking the ratings

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 12:43:35 No.10170932 Report

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>>10170632
This is true, I stand by my general point about what the studio executives are seeing but if they don't understand how the business works or how many shitters he's got under contract they'll soon find out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 12:49:01 No.10170958 Report

Quoted By: >>10170976

>A bunch of Smarks pretend to know anything about the television business

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 12:53:03 No.10170976 Report

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>>10170958
>Xhe doesn't understand business, profit margins or advertising deals

See you at the drive-thru faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 12:58:16 No.10170998 Report

Quoted By: >>10171029

>>10170652
>billion dollar rights agreements aren't negotiated that quickly
If you don't think that executives aren't paying attention to market forces in a period where there is a huge shift in media, you have to be an idiot. Wrestling runs all year weekly, and provides "content". You notice how that's the buzzword nowadays? You notice that Tony Khan uses these terms in his announcements? It's about having a content library that people can watch for hours at a time. Wrestling is literally the perfect medium for selling slop to consumers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 13:05:55 No.10171029 Report

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>>10170998
It's not even just that, it's about backlogs, and other tiny reasons to not cancel your subscription. If you can tell yourself "maybe I'll rewatch some old dynamite at some point, and there's a PPV soon anyway so I'll keep subbed" that's people who are basically forgetting their sub because they're justifying paying for something they're only partially using. The goal is to keep you there, not jumping around to different subscriptions every month. A ton of people that stay subbed are either going "I might do this" or have forgotten they have the sub.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 13:21:35 No.10171091 Report

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>>10170499
Absolutely fucking nothing if ya catch my drift

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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 13:26:59 No.10171119 Report

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>>10170499
WBD is ran by clowns who constantly fuck up. Them paying $1 billy for AEW makes perfect sense.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 13:55:40 No.10171236 Report

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>>10170632
As is Vince tbf

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 13:58:16 No.10171258 Report

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>>10170499
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Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 13:59:50 No.10171265 Report

Quoted By: >>10171541

This thread reminds me of this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnbLoz9zckU

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 14:02:04 No.10171279 Report

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it's been fun watching e-tards giving their business advice for years and years now and it basically meant the same as the random incels you see online squealing about how girls manage their onlyfans account

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 14:04:56 No.10171296 Report

Quoted By: >>10171432

>>10170632
You don't know what he's paying them

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 14:20:26 No.10171380 Report

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>>10170540
Waaaaaaa I only like one kind of wrestling T_T

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 14:22:23 No.10171392 Report

Quoted By: >>10171539 >>10171792

>>10170499
>1 billion dollars for 5 years
It's pretty understandable number. The question is, how many hours of content is WB going to force them to do which can be a problem. Just look at WWE. Forced to make 3 hours of content which destroyed whatever interest people had in the product.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 14:28:52 No.10171432 Report

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>>10171296
Only like 5% of the roster are worth paying six figure salaries. The rest belong in the bingo halls.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 14:38:20 No.10171483 Report

Quoted By: >>10171501

>>10170499
Isn’t Warner Brothers ran by complete chimps at this point? Like they cancelled a billion projects but tried to prop up complete shit like Black Adam, Shazam 2, and Velma.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 14:41:48 No.10171501 Report

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>>10171483
No, Zaslav is actually reigning the WB side into profitability. Hell he canned the Batgirl movie because it would cause damage to the brand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 14:52:54 No.10171539 Report

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>>10171392
It's 5 hours total with Dynamite, Rampage, Collision. They're not going to go 3 hours every week

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 14:53:31 No.10171541 Report

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>>10171265
How do you have 10 hours of your mom when I'm dicking her down?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 May 2023 15:42:33 No.10171792 Report

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>>10171392
WB wanted 3 hours and TK resisted, and when he outperformed expectations hard they let him split that third hour into Rampage. TK knows 3 hours is a bad idea.

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