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Per Ibou of Wrestlepurists:
>USA put an end to unadvertised RAW overruns back in November and I’m being told that there are no more overruns allowed period in 2024. USA is kind of over the whole thing, that Twitter thread blew up and it really showed executives that the average WWE fan isn’t really knowledgeable about TV or much of anything, really.
>USA executives are doing some restructuring in the network and part of that is cutting ties with WWE in some ways. They aren’t cancelling it outright but there’s almost no chance they’re signing a new TV deal. And there has been some discussion internally about making RAW an online only thing to try and drive up those numbers, where advertising isn’t really as big a deal. There’s the thought that WWE fans will pay for WWE but won’t pay for anything else, and reality seems to match that assumption.
>USA put an end to unadvertised RAW overruns back in November and I’m being told that there are no more overruns allowed period in 2024. USA is kind of over the whole thing, that Twitter thread blew up and it really showed executives that the average WWE fan isn’t really knowledgeable about TV or much of anything, really.
>USA executives are doing some restructuring in the network and part of that is cutting ties with WWE in some ways. They aren’t cancelling it outright but there’s almost no chance they’re signing a new TV deal. And there has been some discussion internally about making RAW an online only thing to try and drive up those numbers, where advertising isn’t really as big a deal. There’s the thought that WWE fans will pay for WWE but won’t pay for anything else, and reality seems to match that assumption.
