>>14928315Just spit-balling here, so bare with me......but wrestling has a weird replay timeline compared to scripted TV shows and sports. With TV shows, people can and do record 3-5 weeks worth and watch it all in one sitting. Nobody sits down and watches 15 hours of wrestling in one sitting, imagine the amount of shit you'd get all over your wheelchair. But wrestling also has much less potential for spoilers than traditional sports. I can go to my normal news/sports/entertainment websites and I'll rarely see AEW/WWE mentioned for any reason. So if I wait until Sunday night to watch Rampage and Collision, I'm in the clear as long as I avoid social media for a couple days.
So that puts Wrestling programming in a ~24-72 hour bubble that doesn't exist for Sports or other TV programming, where results are immediately posted everywhere. As a result, NBC doesn't need to simulcast because there's not enough wrestling fans who will threaten to cancel their subscription without it -- and even if you somehow did see spoilers, you still need to see the whole show to understand the context of who did what to whom and why. You can distill an NBA/NFL/MLB game down to 3-5 minutes -- you can't do that with a 2-3 hour wrestling show.
