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Post by Smart Ass Monkey on Jun 19, 2014 20:59:25 GMT -6
BOBBY ROOOOOOO!!!!
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Post by Smart Ass Monkey on Jun 19, 2014 21:02:04 GMT -6
That was a helluva follow up to a helluva ppv. I like the way things are going!
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Post by Ed Becker on Jun 20, 2014 0:04:29 GMT -6
And now, a drunken Uncle Ed rambling...
Fun show. A little hot-shotty, IMO, but they seemed to fix one of my biggest complaints about the show that the ratings trends seem to show in that they don't seem to tease stuff in the first hour into the second hour. They usually start out good but trail off as the show goes on. The biggest thing is they don't usually get the top of the second hour spike where people are flipping channels. Obviously, we'll have to wait and see when the quarter hour breakdowns come out. They seemed to fix that with the tag match and EY/Lashley getting set up in the first hour.
Complaint: Why should we watch next week besides the fallout of Lashley winning? Is that enough of a carrot to dangle out in front of the viewers' noses? My initial reaction is "probably not."
Here's the deal: You have to give the people multiple reasons to check you out, then hook them. It's kinda like a multi-tornado rolling field of death: spin the shit around and keep it moving.
I thought it was a very positive thing to have them do TV on the road. I saw the Lashley thing online before it happened. Of course, I kayfabed. That crowd wanted to be there and it added so fucking much.
And on an aside, this is where I defend TNA for booking rooms beyond what they can draw: You have the same production crew whether you run a 15,000 seater or a 2000 seater. The bigger buildings will work with a client on fees to get someone to use the building. Trust me. They don't open all the food stands or shitters or bring in ushers for a show that sells and is set up for 3000 than for 13,000. They offer X amount of tickets and plan for that. You also have to take into account that the smaller venue might be booked for the date you need to do TV or it can't handle the production (lights, cameras, production, electric, etc.). People who shit on them for that are clueless marks. If you saw the backstage areas of Milwaukee's Eagles Club that hosted ECW TV and PPV, you'd shit over the squalor. I've known that building for over 20 years and I'm surprised it hasn't burned down.
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