The Phantom

From 1Wrestling.com



USA Today has a fascinating article about television programming migrating to the internet and WWE is featured prominently.

As I reported here months ago, TNA had as many weekly viewers (250,000) for TNA IMPACT on TNAwrestling.com as they did on Fox Sports Network. However, Fox Sports Network charged TNA $30,000 per week while streaming Impact via REAL MEDIA cost only $1,500 weekly or 5% of what TNA paid to Fox Sports Net. (What a waste of $1,560,000 over the course of 52 weeks!)

From USA Today:

World Wrestling Entertainment just moved two long-running shows from cable TV —WWE Heat and WWE Velocity — to its wwe.com site.

"There seems to be no way to quench people's thirst for online video programming," says Chris Chambers, WWE senior vice president.

A few weeks ago, the first hour of WWE's Friday Night SmackDown series on UPN was pre-empted by Hurricane Katrina coverage, so WWE put the show on its website. The show averages 5 million viewers weekly on UPN (3 million homes), and WWE thought it might attract 250,000 viewers online. Instead, there were 500,000.

"That was with no promotion, without people knowing that the show was there," Chambers says. The entire article can be seen at:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/te...websites_x.htm

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

Nice. That is a good sign for them.