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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jan 13, 2015 16:43:58 GMT -6
from www.f4wonline.comPro Wrestling Syndicate's second TV show on WLNY (which I enjoyed a lot; it was much better than the debut show, so go watch it on YouTube), Pro Wrestling Syndicate did a 0.1 rating with a 1.0 share. That's less than 7,500 households tuned in. Last week, I only brought up the rating because it was their debut show and NY is the largest market in the United States. This week, I bring it up because for reasons I haven't been able to ascertain, someone put it out there that the debut show did 164,000 viewers and a lot of sites have picked it up. There's no shame in the real number in the context of the station and the time of day. But when the debut show is close to 5,000 views on YouTube and you can never be sure how many people were actually watching the show so late when it originally aired, it sure seems to point to this being a pointless exercise for them to be paying for TV time in the biggest and most expensive market in the country. Read the fifth bullet point in this old Bill Behrens blog post to understand the whole picture a bit more. One final note: A big reason that PWS's move to paying for TV time puzzled so many people is that they seemingly have a great business model. Talent costs are subsidized by having mini conventions before each show and vendors bringing in a lot of the bigger names, plus a lot of the undercard guys come from their wrestling school. By all appearances, they were doing great, so it surprised people when they launched a GoFundMe campaign to try to help get a paid TV show going. web.archive.org/web/20141112151744/http://www.gofundme.com/PWS-Funding-4-a-Fraction
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