WWE Network Ideas

[BDKiiing]

Simply, what do you want out of the WWE Network, come 2012.

I would love to see the return of a show like Velocity, a late saturday night show featuring the lower/more so mid card.

Maybe a preraw show where you get to see one of the dark matches.

And lastly some televised FCW.

[areobee401]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

Once a month they should show a PPV/Super Show on Sunday Night.

Class Of the Champions
WCW PPV's
NWA Super Cards
WWF PPV's
WWE PPV's
WWF Saturday Night

I would love to see old ECW programming , but I doubt it.

Start showing the weekly shows of all the libraries they own from other promotions.

[Bellsprout]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

I'm sure Superstars and NXT will be on it.

I'd like to see entire classic PPV's. Imagine coming home one night and going "Oh, WrestleMania 17's on. All of it. I'll watch that."

[jvalverde88]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

Movies starring Divas.

[vernond]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

I'm assuming this means Classics on Demand is going the way of the dinosaur. I'm also assuming eventually Raw and Smackdown will end up on there after it is established and the current deals with USA and SYFY end.

My hopes are you will get to see tons of old stuff. It'd be pretty cool to wake up and watch Wrestling Challenge on Saturday mornings and catch WCW Saturday night at 5:05 cst and Saturday Nights Main Event at 10:30. As well as getting old ppv's from WWE and WCW. My fear is you're going to get Raw, Smackdown, Superstars, and NXT shown about 3 times a day each as well as crappy wwe studios movies. I think it will be used more as a tool to push todays product rather than reliving the past.

[jvalverde88]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

I'm assuming this means Classics on Demand is going the way of the dinosaur. I'm also assuming eventually Raw and Smackdown will end up on there after it is established and the current deals with USA and SYFY end.

My hopes are you will get to see tons of old stuff. It'd be pretty cool to wake up and watch Wrestling Challenge on Saturday mornings and catch WCW Saturday night at 5:05 cst and Saturday Nights Main Event at 10:30. As well as getting old ppv's from WWE and WCW. My fear is you're going to get Raw, Smackdown, Superstars, and NXT shown about 3 times a day each as well as crappy wwe studios movies. I think it will be used more as a tool to push todays product rather than reliving the past.

Not necessarily, I see it being something like HBO on Demand. But I do see a lot of original WWE programming aired to push today's product.

[BDKiiing]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

Movies starring Divas.

you know with it being it's own network, it might not necessarily be PG...

I'm assuming this means Classics on Demand is going the way of the dinosaur. I'm also assuming eventually Raw and Smackdown will end up on there after it is established and the current deals with USA and SYFY end.

My hopes are you will get to see tons of old stuff. It'd be pretty cool to wake up and watch Wrestling Challenge on Saturday mornings and catch WCW Saturday night at 5:05 cst and Saturday Nights Main Event at 10:30. As well as getting old ppv's from WWE and WCW. My fear is you're going to get Raw, Smackdown, Superstars, and NXT shown about 3 times a day each as well as crappy wwe studios movies. I think it will be used more as a tool to push todays product rather than reliving the past.

I was talking with my buddy about Raw and SD being on there, we figured that SD will, but that Raw will stay on regular tv, unless every cable provider gets the wwe network.

and another thought we had was, do providers pay each network enough, that they would show the live PPVs on the WWE Network, or if they would still be seperate? any thoughts?

[goh]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

Movies starring Divas.

It's recently come to light you can find one with Ricardo. Maybe they'll air that. He was just an extra.

ECW,WCW (it's Clash of Champions btw),WWE/F,AWA and whatever else they own full libraries! Also a plan where a discounted cost of the PPV is included in the price of WWE network.

[vernond]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

you know with it being it's own network, it might not necessarily be PG...


I was talking with my buddy about Raw and SD being on there, we figured that SD will, but that Raw will stay on regular tv, unless every cable provider gets the wwe network.

and another thought we had was, do providers pay each network enough, that they would show the live PPVs on the WWE Network, or if they would still be seperate? any thoughts?

I don't think there's anyway they show live ppv's on there. Even shows that don't draw well still get 170ish thousand buys at 45-50 bucks a pop. That's way too much money to miss out on. Who knows though? On a side note I'm pretty surprised that WWE ppv's have stayed on their current path and they sell as many as they do. 50 bucks is a lot of money to spend on anything especially something entertainment related that you're not going to own outright (although I guess you could record it) or something you will experience live.

[Hooe]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

A WWE-centric equivalent of SportsCenter.

Because it would be so terrible.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

Classic PPVs, a show called like, "Men Behind The Match" where two members of an insane, classic match get together and commentate and give insight on the match. Ranking shows. Top 10 charisma, top 10 matches, top 10 storylines, etc.

Start from some date and show programming from then. Like, say if the date is August 1, 1997, it shows the RAW from that date, then the next airing is the August 8 show, then August 15, etc. Or you can have it connected with Smackdown where you can watch the RAW one day, then the next day the subsequent Smackdown would air.

Don't know about licensing and all that, but they should be able to do pretty much anything with old ECW, old WCW, everything.

It would be awesome if they didn't constantly treat it as another platform for the current angles and would break kayfabe to deliver the content I described above.

[TripleCrown9]

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What would be awesome is something along the lines of (Enter Show Name Here) on Demand. For instance, "I want to watch the SmackDown when Brock Lesnar superplexed Big Show and collapsed the ring" Menu-->Shows-->SmackDown-->2003-->Whatever date. That would be amazing to have everything on demand, seeing as how the E has everything archived.

[ZM Punk]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

If it shows classic stuff...then I would subscribe in an instant. If its just used to push the current generation then I will pass.

[mgoblue]

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I'd like to see something that starts at "X" date (say May 1, 1992) and each week will show the main PPV's from WWE (or WCW), so you could relive those periods in time...

Does that make sense?

[PVarck31]

Re: WWE Network Ideas

If it shows classic stuff...then I would subscribe in an instant. If its just used to push the current generation then I will pass.

I didn't think about this. Does anyone know if this will be a subscription channel or just a regular channel that comes in most cable packages?

Now that I think about it, it will probably be subscription.