The Road to Wrestlemania 24 (Wrasslin' Discussion)

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http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/WWE_News_3/article_24425.shtml

"After a successful decade of "SmackDown" on both UPN and The CW, World Wrestling Entertainment and The CW have agreed to conclude our partnership. Since The CW's exclusive negotiation period ran out as of last Thursday, January 31, we have been contacted and have been in negotiations with other networks. "WWE SmackDown" will continue to air on The CW until the conclusion of the 2007-08 broadcast season. We are grateful to Les Moonves, Dawn Ostroff, and their entire organization for bringing "WWE SmackDown" to millions of viewers for so many years." - WWE Corporate HQ
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No more Smackdown on the CW network at the end of 2007-2008 season (August)

Friday Night SmackDown will cease to air on The CW at the end of the 2007-08 television season, which concludes in late August. WWE issued the following press release earlier tonight.

WWE(R) SmackDown(R) Leaves CW
Thursday February 7, 11:47 pm ET

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following statement was issued today by World Wrestling Entertainment®:

After a successful decade of “SmackDown” on both UPN and The CW, World Wrestling Entertainment and The CW have agreed to conclude our partnership. Since The CW’s exclusive negotiation period ran out as of last Thursday, January 31, we have been contacted and have been in negotiations with other networks. “WWE SmackDown” will continue to air on The CW until the conclusion of the 2007-08 broadcast season. We are grateful to Les Moonves, Dawn Ostroff, and their entire organization for bringing “WWE SmackDown” to millions of viewers for so many years.
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Maybe it'll go back to Thursday nights now :/

Edit: Beaten by seconds!:lol
 
I hope ABC picks it up and shows it instead of Lost. :lol

Really, I don't know where Smackdown will fit in? I can see some channel picking it up as a Saturday night show.
 
Well this comes out of nowhere. Don't remember hearing any rumors about this from Meltzer or the Torch.

I don't think NBC will take Smackdown after seeing the piss-poor ratings that SNME has gotten. I'm interested in seeing which networks the WWE is talking to.
 
Penguin said:
I hope ABC picks it up and shows it instead of Lost. :lol
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* After a little cropping this is appropriate for the situation!:lol
 
I don't see it fitting in any other network station's prime time lineup any night of the week. Definitely not ABC or CBS. It seems to me it'd be on one of the big four network stations already if any of them had interest in it. Maybe there's interest, who knows? I have to think WWE would like to maintain a presence on network television.

I'm kind of torn on where I want the show to end up (preferably canceled forever with the rosters being merged, but I know that's not going to happen). If it's on one of the big four networks, there's a good chance it would be broadcast live. I hate all the post production and editing done on Smackdown after being spoiled by 10+ years of live wrestling on Monday nights. But if it's on cable they'd be able to smut it up like Raw, but it'd probably be taped... I think...

It'll be very interesting to see what happens. Sounds like a good thing to me that they're going to be off CW no matter what the fallout is.
 
How about Spike? SD would be better than the "four dicks on poles match, whoever wins, we're all boned" ADD-riddled TNA shows.
 
Linkhero1 said:
It's probably going to move to NBC. They have nothing on Friday, right?
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Friday Night Lights and that 1 vs. 100 show are on Fridays, I think.

I don't see what motivation NBC would have to pick up Smackdown as a weekly show though after seeing SNME deliver dismal ratings.
 
JavyOO7 said:
The Palumbo angle is currently my favorite angle. Curious to see where it goes...
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Palumbo will make a weird face and do some more horrible acting, then maybe Michelle will turn on Noble.

Angle spoiled.
 
Not a lot has gotten out regarding the WWE making the announcement they will be off the CW Network as of the end of September. WWE made the announcement last night when finding out CW was going to send the news to its affiliates today, so that the word would get out. If they had a new deal in place, they would have announced it. Just to clear a few things up contractually. Legally, they can go anywhere on network or pay-TV (HBO, Showtime). No way HBO will touch them, as during the hot period, HBO talked about it, felt wrestling would be good for ratings and decided against going in that direction because they considered it low-rent programming. Showtime is possible, but it is in so few homes that it would be a killer to the brand. On cable, they can only go to stations under the NBC Universal umbrella, like USA and Sci-Fi. Spike or TBS are contractually prohibited. The best bet seems to be MyNetworkTV, which is in basically the same number of homes as CW, but desperately needs a show that will draw ratings. It would make sense for MNTV to move the show back to Thursday, because you should have your star show on a night viewership is highest. It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out.

http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=22024
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The CW Shuts Down 'Smackdown'


John Consoli

FEBRUARY 08, 2008 -

The CW has terminated its relationship with Vince and Linda McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment and will no longer air WWE Smackdown after Sept. 12, 2008.

A brief statement by the network said, "After a successful decade of Smackdown on both UPN and The CW, The CW and World Wrestling Entertainment have agreed to conclude our partnership. We are grateful to Linda and Vince McMahon and their entire organization for providing great entertainment to our viewers for so many years."

The wrestling show first began airing on UPN and was picked up for The CW when UPN merged with The WB two years ago.

The negotiating window for a new deal between The CW and WWE ended on Jan. 31, according to sources familiar with the negotiations, and a new rights fee could not be agreed upon.

The CW insiders said the network was not exactly excited about renewing, since the Smackdown adult 18-34 rating this season had decreased to a 1.4, which made it only the seventh highest-rated show on the network in prime time.

Another issue that led to the CW's decision to drop Smackdown was that the show was entirely young-male oriented and the network was not able to use it's Friday night telecast to promote its female-skewing Sunday programming.

"There was absolutely no audience flow to any of our other shows," a CW insider said. "No one who watched Smackdown watched any of our other shows on any other night."

Smackdown was originally a time buy on UPN, where it first aired beginning 10 years ago. Several years ago, UPN began selling the ad time on Smackdown and when UPN and The WB merged into The CW two years ago, The CW sales staff began selling ad time for it.

Selling ads on Smackdown became challenged, sources said, because it could not be sold in combination or as part of packages with other CW female-skewing shows.

"I think we just knew it was time to move in another direction," a CW insider said.

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/networktv...t_id=1003708685
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oh, speaking of Smackdown. I was at a friends house last night and we were flipping channels and sure enough he gets Smackdown HD... but the match we saw was the 6 man tag... and Big Daddy V's disgusting ass nearly has turned me off to the whole WWE HD thing!:lol
 
Aladuf23 said:
oh, speaking of Smackdown. I was at a friends house last night and we were flipping channels and sure enough he gets Smackdown HD... but the match we saw was the 6 man tag... and Big Daddy V's disgusting ass nearly has turned me off to the whole WWE HD thing!:lol
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You like it.
 
From the WO

If your wondering where Ron Simmons has been in recent weeks, well, he recently took up WWE's rehab offer.

After a recent breakdown in Puerto Rico, Scott Hall decided to take WWE up on their offer as well. He's currently situated at the same one as Jake Roberts in Atlanta. Roberts is nine weeks into his fourteen week stay at the facility.
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Aladuf23 said:
oh, speaking of Smackdown. I was at a friends house last night and we were flipping channels and sure enough he gets Smackdown HD... but the match we saw was the 6 man tag... and Big Daddy V's disgusting ass nearly has turned me off to the whole WWE HD thing!:lol
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The four minutes of wrestling and twenty-six of intros really led me to bond and identify with this fetish of yours.

You, me, next Friday with a big platter of pig brains and eggs.
 
Shins said:
The four minutes of wrestling and twenty-six of intros really led me to bond and identify with this fetish of yours.

You, me, next Friday with a big platter of pig brains and eggs.
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:lol I'm there!
 
Interesting about Smackdown being done. It's only seems like yesterday that wrestling was so popular it seemed like a natural decision to go to a network (As lame as that particular network is.) If I had my druthers, it would go back to USA.
 
OokieSpookie said:
Ok ODB has to be one of the most idiotic and just irritating ring personas male or female for the past few years
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i couldnt agree more its just like she cant decide whether she is heel or face and she acts like she is freaking velvet sky and she aint and she just trash and for christ sakes get a longer skirt.

So Yeah now thats out of the way

PPV Tommrow like anybody even notices

Predictions?
 
i predict:

team 3d wins, killing the x division. why? this is TNA we're talking about here.

peyton banks over ms brooks

roode over booker, prolonging the feud.

bg and bullet bob armstrong over aj/tomko, which will progress both the aj/tomko story and the bj/kip story.

awesome kong over odb.

angle retains.

hrm wait is the petey williams vs bpp match on the ppv? i pick petey if so.
 
Here are mine

team 3d wins and on impact announces the creation of the television title.

peyton banks over ms brooks

Booking Winning by countout or a small package not conclusive however.

bg and bullet bob armstrong over aj/tomko, which will progress both the aj/tomko story and the bj/kip story.

awesome kong over odb.

angle retains but not without controversey with Joe as we see a triple threat at Destination X

petey williams vs bpp - BPP Wins and at a future ppv or television we see BPP challenge.
 
AAO sounds like a recipe for disaster tonight.

Mediocre PPV card + apathetic (and sparse) South Carolina crowd + TNA booking team = Possible early candidate for worst PPV of '08

The only saving grace for me would be if tonight's show leads to Angle vs. Joe for the belt at Destination X
with Joe finally winning the fucking title for a change.
 
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