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SBJ predicts Raw to Amazon Prime

Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:32:35 No.12902140 View View Reply Original Report

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>Amazon gets “WWE Raw” rights and keeps the series on Monday nights. This hits an audience of young males, a demo where Amazon believes it sees growth in Prime subscriptions. Plus, it gives the company another night of live programming on Prime Video.
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/01/08/sports-media

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:33:18 No.12902149 Report

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>>12902140
>have to pay 99 dollars a year to watch raw
lmao

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:33:19 No.12902150 Report

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No network television?

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:34:17 No.12902161 Report

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>raw cancelled from all of tv

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:35:13 No.12902170 Report

Quoted By: >>12902199 >>12902214 >>12905136

will they have commercials still, idk how normal live shows work on amazon cause I don't watch football only one ppvs there

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:37:12 No.12902190 Report

Quoted By: >>12902210 >>12902333

pretty much everyone has amazon prime so this could be pretty good. could even go tv 14

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:38:14 No.12902199 Report

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>>12902149
AP is $139 now. Still a bargain with the free 2 day delivery.
>>12902170
Football games have regular ads. I would imagine Raw would be the same way.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:39:25 No.12902207 Report

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>>12902140
Already get prime for free because of EBT, could get RAW too?

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:39:36 No.12902210 Report

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>>12902190
>. could even go tv 14
Do people not understand that nothing at this moment precludes WWE from doing TV-14?
They don't do it because they want to help retain sponsorship revenue

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:39:45 No.12902211 Report

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>>12902140
If they are getting away from cable, Amazon must be opening the vault for WWE.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:40:26 No.12902214 Report

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>>12902170
Yeah. They’ll still have it

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:49:15 No.12902290 Report

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>>12902210
USA was cool with TV-14 and it didn't happen. Investors/sponsors killed it. And they killed it before the growth spurt which added a ton of kids to the audience.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:50:47 No.12902305 Report

Quoted By: >>12902314

WWE on streaming-only would certainly be KWABOTY.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:51:18 No.12902311 Report

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>>12902211
They should get a good bag if they go with Amazon, but don't seem to have anyone in TV that wanted to pay their asking price so I don't expect it to be something insane.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:51:32 No.12902314 Report

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>>12902305
maybe on planet retard

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:52:43 No.12902331 Report

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>>12902290
Isn't it Mattel that doesn't want it?

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:52:50 No.12902333 Report

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>>12902190
>pretty much everyone has amazon prime
'E drones are statistically proven to be low income tho

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:53:35 No.12902345 Report

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>>12902210
I thought it was a sponsors thing but LA Knight bladed on Friday and I didn't hear Mattel pulling the toy line.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:54:08 No.12902347 Report

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>>12902314
streaming is a dying model, and it's going to be only worse with inflation and gazillion services

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:54:45 No.12902356 Report

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>>12902331
They're thrown out there as an example but I don't think it was just them.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:56:21 No.12902376 Report

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Would be based because I wouldn't have to restream it and you can just do unlimited prime trials

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:57:09 No.12902382 Report

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>>12902211
I was thinking the same thing. I know everyone says they'd go after the highest $-figure no matter what, but I truly think if the difference was somewhere around an extra 30 million a year to go to Amazon that they would still take the TV networks money and try to work out some deal like they did with Hulu.
If the live show is on is actually on the table, it's going to make the FOX overpay look like a bargain. I think Morgan Stanley estimated Raw rights to be somewhere around 375M per year (which I think is high but they're using the same multiplier they got for Smackdown's new deal), my gut tells me they don't take Amazon unless it's over 400M. Then again, this is Endeavor and not Vince so maybe it will just be the biggest $.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:57:40 No.12902390 Report

Quoted By: >>12902405 >>12902466 >>12902526

>>12902140
Very bad news for WWE and wrestling in general. Live TV is the bread and butter of wrestling feds.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:58:31 No.12902398 Report

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>>12902140
Doesn't affect me as long as I can still watch everything with WWE Network, but moving off networks seems like a bad call.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 18:59:23 No.12902405 Report

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>>12902390
its still live tv ya pinhead

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:00:49 No.12902420 Report

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wwe is going to be so ICE COLD once smackdown is off free tv and raw is behind a paywall

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:03:49 No.12902452 Report

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>>12902382
They need to go with the highest $ figure because of the TKO debt

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:04:53 No.12902466 Report

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>>12902390
*In the US. Raw on Prime would lead to millions of foreign people that get Raw on delay (2-7+ days later) signing up to Amazon Prime so they can watch the show live, unless for some asinine reason Amazon's Raw was region-blocked, in which case I'd agree with you

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:06:08 No.12902477 Report

Quoted By: >>12903305

>>12902140
i wonder if they will move the shop to Amazon

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:08:33 No.12902500 Report

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This would make smackdown the #1 show. Raw will never get 2 milly again.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:10:10 No.12902517 Report

Quoted By: >>12902548 >>12902573

>>12902466
Raw on Amazon Prime being world wide by default would be unlikely. Would be a country by country basis since other places have those rights.
Canada rights are coming up soon, so maybe they end up there when that happens but it all depends on what Amazon and the local providers decide.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:10:49 No.12902526 Report

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>>12902390
As of two years ago, more Americans stream than watch tv

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:11:50 No.12902545 Report

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>>12902526
Yeah mostly due to Netflix

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:12:04 No.12902548 Report

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>>12902466
prime video is region locked for alot of content because of what >>12902517 said

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:13:00 No.12902560 Report

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I’m not paying for a separate service for one singular WWE show. If WWE had an AEW plus type thing then I would pay for it and I would pay up to like $10 a month for it. But I’m not paying for just raw. I recognize a great portion of the world already has Amazon prime so I’m in the minority here but I don’t use it and I’m certainly not getting it just for raw.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:13:46 No.12902569 Report

Quoted By: >>12902583

>>12902347
Amazon will have to massively overpay like they did for the Thursday Night Football to compensate for being behind a paywall so WWE will come out ahead either way. unless making money = bad now.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:14:02 No.12902573 Report

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>>12902517
VPN, but if you care enough to VPN, you could just be watching it on my YouTube TV live with the VPN already.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:15:05 No.12902583 Report

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>>12902569
less viewers could lead to less ticket sales
this could hurt them in the long run

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:15:34 No.12902588 Report

Quoted By: >>12903451 >>12906161

>>12902545
So? Netflix has ~250 million subscribers, Amazon has ~215 million. MAX has 64 million for reference

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:16:57 No.12902604 Report

Quoted By: >>12902636 >>12902662 >>12902740 >>12903397

holy fuck NFL does 11 milly on on amazon?

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:20:21 No.12902636 Report

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>>12902604
more than the thursday games did on NFL network too. common bezos W

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:23:29 No.12902662 Report

Quoted By: >>12902713 >>12906374

>>12902604
That's still low compared to what they get on TV. This season, Sunday Night Football on NBC averages 21 milly and Monday Night Football on ABC averages 17 milly.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:25:47 No.12902689 Report

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>>12902140
>some smark dirtsheet said
So it’s nothing

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:27:48 No.12902713 Report

Quoted By: >>12906125 >>12906548

>>12902662
No shit you're comparing broadcast weekend TV to streaming on Thursday nights. Previous Thursday night games on TV frequently did less than that.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:28:07 No.12902715 Report

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>>12902199
>with the free 2 day delivery.
I do amazon without prime and it's 5 days at most for me, usually 3 or 4 so I enjoy keeping my $139 and enjoy not feeling pressured to buy from a vendor just because they have me locked into a subscription

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:30:55 No.12902740 Report

Quoted By: >>12902778

>>12902604
>the lowest rated football game behind a paywall on a second tier streaming service outdraws wrestling by TEN MILLION PEOPLE
kek what a pissant business

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:35:49 No.12902778 Report

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>>12902740
That's the truth about all companies that no console warrior wants to admit: literally no media company gives a shit about wrestling deep down. If it weren't cheap & they had to pay for production themselves, they'd kill the entire genre overnight.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:36:09 No.12902782 Report

Quoted By: >>12902813

>>12902199
>$139
>bargain
lol cmon anon

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:36:52 No.12902788 Report

Quoted By: >>12902869 >>12902974

>>12902140
LMFAOOOOOO FAGGOT PEDO E DRONES

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:39:20 No.12902804 Report

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>>12902140
Not being on TV would destroy their live attendance after 5 years. It would be hilariously short sighted.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:40:05 No.12902813 Report

Quoted By: >>12903053

>>12902782
>spends $150 a year on the observer

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:42:04 No.12902828 Report

Quoted By: >>12903550

>>12902140
i don't think it would happen but it might work if they killed the brand split and slimmed down the roster a bit.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:45:41 No.12902869 Report

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>>12902788
kek incredibly based

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:59:11 No.12902974 Report

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>>12902788

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 20:08:31 No.12903053 Report

Quoted By: >>12903208

>>12902813
Incorrect. I accept your concession though.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 20:27:18 No.12903208 Report

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>>12903053
Oh, I'm sorry. You pay the $120 one time fee for the year instead of the $12.99 a month. That's the real bargain.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 20:37:40 No.12903305 Report

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>>12902477
Doesn’t Fanatics run the shop/merch? They would probably move it over after that deal expires if all the timing lines up.

I could seriously see Amazon paying a ridiculous sum for like 7-10 years just to lock in RAW through two media rights cycles.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 20:42:58 No.12903339 Report

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>>12902140
Record profits incoming. E-Titans, we feastin’.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 20:46:20 No.12903364 Report

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>>12902210
Raw is literally on a network where less than a minute after it's over and before you could even grab the remote to change the channel they've had shows with fucks and shits at the beginning of them completely uncensored. You're entirely right

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 20:47:45 No.12903373 Report

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some suit at TKO is thinking he's a finna genius for getting a separate show on broadcast, cable, and streaming

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 20:50:09 No.12903397 Report

Quoted By: >>12903436

>>12902604
Now imagine if all of the ways people watch wrestling online was recorded data. Tv ratings are such an archaic means of measuring this shit. Why do you think demos always skew towards older people to. Majority of younger viewers aren't sitting down to watch shit on tv. This applies for both WWE and AEW by the way. All console wars completely aside. Views on youtube clips are probably a more telling metric than tv ratings

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 20:54:23 No.12903436 Report

Quoted By: >>12903497

>>12903397
TV ratings have always been an unreliable indicator. Even WWE famously cared more about the strong gates during the Monday night wars when they were getting merked by WCW but were papering houses. I'd say that paid off.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 20:55:55 No.12903451 Report

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>>12902588
thats world wide dummy, and max has way more than that world wide. maybe 100M by now not sure

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 21:01:43 No.12903497 Report

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>>12903436
They were getting dogshit tv deals back then, go look up an earnings call they put the ratings over more than anything

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 21:06:07 No.12903537 Report

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 21:06:17 No.12903540 Report

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>>12902140
kek what a forward thinking and financially prudent deal

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 21:07:35 No.12903550 Report

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>>12902828
>if they killed the brand split
they'd have to right? can't see how they could have half of the company's stories behind the paywall. unless they bring back a shotgun saturday night/superstars recap show

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 21:21:12 No.12903655 Report

Quoted By: >>12904363

>>12902140
This got lost in the shuffle but they also threw out FX getting them

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 22:59:50 No.12904363 Report

Quoted By: >>12904432

>>12903655
>But it looks like one media company will step up for that property.
Ourand don't miss fr. WWE finna get that Amazon scrilla.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 23:03:06 No.12904389 Report

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>>12902347
cable is a dying medium

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 23:08:33 No.12904432 Report

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>>12904363
he whiffed on all his amazon predictions last year, but i still think they're in the lead personally unless something changes

https://www.morganwick.com/2023/01/thoughts-on-ourand_sbjs-predictions-for-sports-media-in-2023/

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 23:08:55 No.12904435 Report

Quoted By: >>12904459 >>12904466

>>12902140
Netflix, Amazon and maybe Disney+ will be the last stream services standing at the end of the day, they are the only companies capable of eating the losses while producing content. So it's okay if RAW goes to Prime, it would be worrisome if they ended up in peacock or paramount+, those won't be around for long.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 23:12:17 No.12904459 Report

Quoted By: >>12904495 >>12904501

>>12904435
Paramount will probably be gone this time next year

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 23:13:24 No.12904466 Report

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>>12904435
>it would be worrisome if they ended up in peacock
yeah that would be devastating

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 23:17:33 No.12904495 Report

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>>12904459
Netflix, Amazon, Disney and Max+Paramount+Peacock will merge under Max.
Also ESPN spun off into it's own service will be a thing in a few years.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 23:19:02 No.12904501 Report

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>>12904459
Only because its likely to merge with Max.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 23:26:01 No.12904550 Report

Quoted By: >>12905115

RIP. Football can succeed in streaming. But wrestling fans are inbred poors.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 00:26:23 No.12905115 Report

Quoted By: >>12905144

>>12904550
Is that why AEW isn't on Max?

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 00:28:25 No.12905136 Report

Quoted By: >>12905200

>>12902170
Hopefully they could be a little more flexible with them and put them in between matches like a PLE. Might make RAW watchable finally.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 00:28:57 No.12905144 Report

Quoted By: >>12905235

>>12905115
Why would they ink a Max deal before they renew with WBD?

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 00:35:33 No.12905200 Report

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>>12905136
Amazon will want their ad revenue, I don't see new subs making up too much of that asking price.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 00:39:54 No.12905235 Report

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>>12905144
You tell me.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 00:40:29 No.12905240 Report

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>>12902199
I don't order anything from Amazon, so why should I pay $139 a year for one TV show? And don't say the Lord of the Rings stuff where the somehow needed to make hobbits black and Asian.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 01:36:25 No.12906125 Report

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>>12902713
>The NFL network is cable and most cable subscribers don't get that channel unless they pay extra. You'd have to go back when CBS or Fox had the Thursday games, but of course the viewership would be split with the NFL network because I think they aired it on both channels simultaneously.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 01:38:44 No.12906161 Report

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>>12902588
The Amazon subscriber numbers are misleading since most people sign up just to get the free shipping, and never even bother watching the streaming part of the package.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 01:41:20 No.12906204 Report

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>>12902149
If you get the Amazon Prime Visa card the subscription more than pays for itself over the course of a year. But people are bad with money, so this will fall on deaf ears.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 01:42:34 No.12906230 Report

Quoted By: >>12906308

>>12902140
can't wait for it to happen so we can hear how getting massively overpaid for it is actually bad for WWE

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 01:48:58 No.12906308 Report

Quoted By: >>12906454

>>12906230
>massively overpaid
no one in tv is willing to pay their asking price, they're not getting that much

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 01:51:49 No.12906374 Report

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>>12902662
Thursday Night Football on Prime has gotten some of the worst scheduled games both seasons so far.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 01:55:00 No.12906454 Report

Quoted By: >>12906709

>>12906308
if it happens amazon will have to overpay to offset the loss in viewership just like they did with the NFL

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 01:59:33 No.12906548 Report

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>>12902713
Looks like they're including local TV affiliates ratings, which make the numbers make more sense. A ton of people will gladly watch their team on local broadcast channels without having to get prime. I've never watched a full game on prime but I'd imagine they'd get a boost from having raw, especially now that they're doing commercials. The issue for them is how many new customers it would bring, which might not even be an issue because bezos has enough money to literally build a space dick to fuck the sky for shits and giggles.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 02:04:39 No.12906665 Report

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>"Were on our way to the Royal Rumble Prime season.."

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 02:06:34 No.12906709 Report

Quoted By: >>12906908 >>12906927

>>12906454
WWE is big but they're not the NFL, if you think they're on that level you are clueless

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 02:17:08 No.12906908 Report

Quoted By: >>12907216

>>12906709
I mean for a worldwide audience this doesn't hold. Having Raw go live worldwide on Amazon will dwarf any other rating.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 02:18:20 No.12906927 Report

Quoted By: >>12907216

>>12906709
i never said they were? I'm not saying they're getting an NFL sized deal just that Amazon has to pay a premium for content given the circumstances

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 02:33:30 No.12907216 Report

Quoted By: >>12907386

>>12906908
Getting a domestic Amazon deal doesn't mean that shit is world wide retard.
Amazon Prime VIdeo does not have the penetration you think it does.

>>12906927
Lots of networks wanted TNF but Amazon overpaid to get it, NFL can fetch 20M on cable while WWE gets 1.5M. Not in the same game.
Not the same ballpark.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 02:43:05 No.12907386 Report

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>>12907216
I didn't know it was domestic, whoopsiedoodlekins!

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 02:47:27 No.12907456 Report

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So does mean it won't be on USA any more. They're gonna lose massive numbers if people can only watch it streaming.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 02:51:27 No.12907515 Report

Quoted By: >>12907534 >>12911723

So does this mean it won't be on USA any more? They're gonna lose massive numbers if people can only watch it streaming.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 02:52:53 No.12907534 Report

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>>12907515
maybe 20 years ago but everyone streams now, and less and less people pay for cable. Everyone i know either got rid of cable or never bought it

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 02:54:32 No.12907552 Report

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>>12902140
This would be a disaster for WWE no matter how much money they got

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 02:57:48 No.12907603 Report

Quoted By: >>12911459

Yeah but that's nowhere near a majority. Most people just like to turn on the TV and watch sports. No one's gonna gonna buy a Prime subscription just to watch WWE, especially in this economy.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 06:10:07 No.12909292 Report

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>>12902140
>they cant get a tv deal
lol

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 08:50:01 No.12910138 Report

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>>12902140
wow amazing

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:18:17 No.12911440 Report

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>>12902149
Like 70% of Americans are subscribed to Amazon Prime. More people have access to Prime than to USA Network.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:21:30 No.12911459 Report

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>>12907603
The majority of people in America subscribe to Amazon Prime already, without Raw.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:22:55 No.12911473 Report

Quoted By: >>12911486

Prime has ~150mm members in the US
~75 mm households in the US have cable tv .

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:24:04 No.12911481 Report

Quoted By: >>12911660

>>12902149
i pay $1200/yr + for cable and already have prime

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:24:43 No.12911486 Report

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>>12911473
I don't know if that number for cable includes stuff like YouTube TV or Hulu's cable channel services. Still, Prime probably still wins.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:35:55 No.12911542 Report

Quoted By: >>12911567 >>12911620

I certainly hope this is true. It would be a huge step in the right direction. There's not much reason to have cable anymore, except for WWE and some other sports. But with them moving towards having games on regular TV as well as streaming, it's getting to where you won't need cable will be unneeded. It will still exist for a while, but only for boomers who don't want streaming. Wrestling fans are used to streaming anyway, and I think having to pay for cable to watch Raw is a deterrent for them. I would love if Raw went to Amazon, and it would be amazing if SmackDown could livestream on Peacock as well as USA. Then with an antenna to watch NXT on CW, I could finally cancel Hulu's Live TV and save $65 a month. I don't know if that will happen this time, but it will probably be WWE's last traditional TV deal. We're on the cusp of streaming finally and truly making cable irrelevant.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:40:04 No.12911567 Report

Quoted By: >>12911636

>>12911542
>instead of paying for cable I will pay for multiple streaming services

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:47:45 No.12911620 Report

Quoted By: >>12911793

>>12911542
You're paying $65/month to watch fucking NXT?

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:50:25 No.12911636 Report

Quoted By: >>12911672

>>12911567
Yes, because streaming services offer far superior picture quality, wider variety of content (You're not going to find Kurosawa films on cable, but you can watch them on Max) free of censorship, movies aren't blown up to fill your whole screen and they don't have scenes missing to fit into a specified runtime. Fewer ads, or no ads if you're willing to pay extra, and even if you do pay extra, the highest tier subscriptions to Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and Hulu, Paramount+ Showtime, Max, Peacock, AppleTV+, and AMC+ all together is probably still less than what you pay for traditional cable when you count the added fees and the cable box rental. And you don't even have to subscribe to all of them at the same time, since you can only subscribe to the ones you want, and you can cancel at any time, whereas with cable, if you only watch two or three channels, you have to pay for every channel at all times. Streaming is far superior in every way. The only problem is that there's still some content that's only on cable, but that's changing, and it's a great thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:52:24 No.12911660 Report

Quoted By: >>12912173

>>12911481
I have a bootleg streaming service from my boys cousin. It’s 35 bucks a month and has EVERYTHING you get with all the single streaming apps, every single PPV for boxing, wrestling, whatever, 15000 movies and the NFL Sunday Ticket, NBA League Pass, fucking everything. All for 35 a month. I save literally hundreds a month and have all content possible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:54:20 No.12911672 Report

Quoted By: >>12911692 >>12911733

>>12911636
>the highest tier subscriptions to Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and Hulu, Paramount+ Showtime, Max, Peacock, AppleTV+, and AMC+ all together

Jesus fucking Christ the utter state of this consoomer

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 14:56:38 No.12911692 Report

Quoted By: >>12911738 >>12911758

>>12911672
That's the maximum scenario. Most people don't subscribe to all of them, and some, you may only subscribe to a month or two at a time. Get all the value you want from it, then cancel until it's worth checking out again. It's easy to get a lot of value from streaming. Much easier than from cable where you're paying a huge amount of money for channels you probably never watch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:00:35 No.12911723 Report

Quoted By: >>12911729

>>12907515
It'd be even weirder:
>RAW on Amazon
>Peacock still has PPVs/Network
>NXT on CW
>SD on ????

But NBC Universal is kind of okay with that because there's been talk of turning "USA Network" basically into a 24/7 sports license channel for soccer, racing and special events.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:01:44 No.12911729 Report

Quoted By: >>12911741

>>12911723
It's already been announced that Smackdown is moving to USA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:01:48 No.12911733 Report

Quoted By: >>12911738 >>12911745

>>12911672
welcome back to the cable package hell of the 80s/90s son. Now welcome to the fight as Amazon, Apple and Roku battle it out to make the best central "hub" experience.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:02:44 No.12911738 Report

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>>12911692
>>12911733
I don't give a shit because I'm not a mark. They'll receive none of my dineros.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:03:03 No.12911741 Report

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>>12911729
so USA will just become nothing but sports, SVU and John Wick. And maybe Barmageddon if that's cheap enough to make.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:03:38 No.12911745 Report

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>>12911733
>welcome back to the cable package hell of the 80s/90s son.
I think this is such a stupid talking point. You can pick and choose which streaming services you want, which you couldn't ever do with cable channels, and the variety you get from streaming is something cable never offered. It's also cheaper than cable while offering a superior experience.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:07:00 No.12911758 Report

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>>12911692
>Get all the value you want from it, then cancel until it's worth checking out again.
This is why WWE is valuable to streaming services like Amazon and Peacock. The way it is now, maybe you're interested in the new season of Invincible, so you subscribe for a month. You watch the show, maybe see what other movies they've got, watch Raging Bull maybe, and then you can unsubscribe. But WWE is "sticky". They do a new episode every single week, so if you're a WWE fan, you'll be inclined to stick around. Peacock has a new WWE PLE every month, so there's no reason to ever unsubscribe for WWE fans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:12:59 No.12911793 Report

Quoted By: >>12911823

>>12911620
The only shows I watch on cable TV are WWE. Raw, NXT, and SmackDown. I could technically watch SmackDown for free if I bought an antenna, so technically I'm paying that money to watch two shows, Raw and NXT. When the new deals go into effect, if Raw is on Prime, NXT is on CW, a free channel, and Smackdown is on USA, that would mean paying $65 for one show. That's a much harder pill to swallow than another streaming service. But some things are simulcast on both USA and Peacock right now. Indycar races for example, you can watch on either USA or Peacock, and I believe that's the direction the industry is moving in, which I think would be a great idea.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:20:08 No.12911823 Report

Quoted By: >>12911849 >>12912110

>>12911793
Lachlan was right. They really do nothing other than consoom WWE.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 15:23:13 No.12911849 Report

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>>12911823
I watch plenty of other shows, but almost everything worth watching is on streaming. This is what I mean though, convincing people to subscribe to cable for the few things they're interested in is much harder than subscribing to Peacock or Amazon. Streaming is almost there, it's almost to the point where you won't need cable at all. Most people already don't, but WWE fans still do. Hopefully not for much longer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:00:00 No.12912110 Report

Quoted By: >>12912125

>>12911823
>Lachlan
Which twitter smark account is this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:01:38 No.12912125 Report

Quoted By: >>12912144

>>12912110
absolute state of pigs kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:02:05 No.12912127 Report

Quoted By: >>12912133

>>12902347
>streaming is a dying model
Holy shit there are actual retards on this board.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:02:59 No.12912133 Report

Quoted By: >>12912162

>>12912127
It's not untrue. Look at the services collapsing already, nevermind the fact that it makes far less money than previous media distribution methods.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:04:18 No.12912144 Report

Quoted By: >>12912150

>>12912125
Sorry, I can't keep up with all the literal who's that get screencapped here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:04:54 No.12912150 Report

Quoted By: >>12912223

>>12912144
It's Ojama's gay lover, he can't keep his dick out of his mouth and he fantasizes about gay sex with him constantly. It's really gross but he can't stop talking about his dick

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:06:37 No.12912162 Report

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>>12912133
>Look at the services collapsing already
Which ones? All the major streaming services are projected to be profitable by next year if they aren't already. And they're all gaining subscribers, while cable is always losing subscribers. The companies are doing their best to keep it alive, but they know cable is slowly dying and streaming is how everyone is going to get content in the future.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:07:51 No.12912173 Report

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>>12911660
How often do you have to re-enter the server's new address for this? I'm sure that shit gets shutdown often by the feds

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:09:39 No.12912187 Report

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AMAZON RAW PLUMMETS
>THIS WEEK 0.0
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:09:57 No.12912190 Report

Quoted By: >>12912696

>WWE getting yet another mega deal for increased money
trannies on suicide watch

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:13:13 No.12912223 Report

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>>12912150
Is this true?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:22:56 No.12912320 Report

Quoted By: >>12912373

>>12902149
*with ads

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 16:29:07 No.12912373 Report

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>>12912320
On USA you're paying like $1,200 a year to watch Raw with ads.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 17:04:41 No.12912696 Report

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>>12912190
blackrock bros we're getting that dividend

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