OGDirtyD
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Damn thats a dope ass poster
KillaCham
Ya wife can't read
This Tropic Thunder ass poster
Black_Samson
OG
Apocalypse Now duffel bag head boy
Black_Samson
OG
Too clean
Iceberg_Taylor
Kill em With A Smile!!
The CW, that's an odd station to take your show
Multiple sources in the broadcast industry have confirmed that the CW Network and WWE have been in deep discussions for weeks about NXT shifting from its current basic cable home on the USA Network to a traditional broadcast television home, airing live weekly on the CW Network when the brand's current media rights deal ends in September 2024.
The belief among some we have spoken with is the deal is VERY close to being completed with the deal expected to be around five years in length.
Once signed, it would easily be the biggest increase for WWE NXT media rights fees ever, PWInsider.com is told.
WWE has been hard at work at raising the prestige of WWE NXT so that the brand would be seen as something greater than just a developmental series for the company, with Becky Lynch, John Cena, The Undertaker, Paul Heyman, Dominik Mysterio and Rhea Ripley, among others, making appearances in recent months. A number of WWE NXT personalities have also been featured on Raw and Smackdown to assist in raising the profile of the brand to create a closer tie to the more established brands.
The CW Network has been focusing more on sports programming since Nexstar Media Group purchased controlling interest in CW back in October 2022. The Network, best known in recent years for DC Superhero and teen-focused dramas, has instead brought Inside the NFL to CW, acquired the rights to LIV Golf events and in 2025, will be the home to the NASCAR Xfinity Series. WWE programming would fit right into that current strategy.
The CW covers over 98% of television homes in the United States, including all of the top 100 markets.
WWE NXT, since its current format as a spotlight for younger, developmental WWE talents was created by Paul Levesque in 2012, has aired on Hulu, the WWE website and the then-debuting streaming WWE Network before moving to the USA Network in the Fall of 2019. This will be the first time the brand has been available regularly on a basic broadcast network. The CW footprint should theoretically change how WWE can create and expose younger talents, giving them a chance to be seen by a far greater number of viewers well before the talents are moved up to Raw or Smackdown.
PWInsider.com is told that the CW has had conversations with several wrestling promotions beyond WWE over the course of this year with discussion on series programming for both the network and the CW App, but WWE became the frontrunner and focus of conversations.
The CW is the spiritual successor to the now-defunct UPN Network, where Friday Night Smackdown first debuted back in 1999. Smackdown will be moving to the USA Network in the Fall of 2024. With the CW deal, WWE would now have weekly series locked in on broadcast and cable platforms. One has to wonder if the one series left to be locked into a new home, Raw, could land on a streaming service. There has been talk of multiple streaming providers, including Amazon's Prime Video, having interest.
WWE parent company TKO Holdings has an earnings call set for later today at 5 PM Eastern, so it should be interesting to see whether the NXT rights fees are brought up. That seems to be the perfect place to officially unveil a new partnership.
Iceberg_Taylor
Kill em With A Smile!!
CW saw NWA crackas snorting coke and did a HARD PIVOT
NWA was in talks to go to the CW?
Yep, until this
Seems a PPV ‘cocaine spot’ may mean no TV for the NWA
A report claims owner Billy Corgan pushed for Father James Mitchell to do the drug in a scene on their recent Samhain PPV. When the NWA’s new partners at The CW heard about it, some started lobbying to only put the promotion’s shows on their app.
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Iceberg_Taylor
Kill em With A Smile!!
OGDirtyD
NAWF ATLANTA ×
Yeah im suprised folks was shitting on it, that shit is fire based on this history.
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Lol let’s wait for the rights fees to see
And you forget that smackdown was on the cw in the 2010s at some point?
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IP360
Doctorate & Ph.D in Bootyology
Also another fun fact:
Dusty was the one who created and also was in the 1st War Games match. So it all comes full circle that the son will be in the same match for the 1st time.
IP360
Doctorate & Ph.D in Bootyology
Yeah I'm meh on it goin to CW too. But I think they changing thr look of the network altogether. They gotten rid of a bulk of them tweeny bopper/emo/super hero shows that dominated the network. It's seems they partially goin towards a sports oriented type network.