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Originally Posted by Observer
As noted, TNA and Lucha Underground have ran advertising on WWE RAW broadcasts in recent weeks. Destination America purchased the ads for Impact Wrestling this week. They bought on DirecTV and as many cable companies as they could. They could not buy national ads directly from the USA Network. Lucha Underground only bought ads on DirecTV.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Konnan recently mentioned on his podcast that WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross has been in negotiations to announce for El Rey and AAA's Lucha Underground promotion. Konnan said he didn't know if Ross would do a three-man team with Matt Striker and Vampiro or if they would rotate the three. We noted at the first of the year how Lucha was interested in hiring JR for a full-time role and they begin filming the new series soon. AAA also wants Ross to announce their English language pay-per-view events.
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Originally Posted by Observer
While AJ Lee is scheduled to return to WWE live events during Royal Rumble weekend this month, there was a plan to bring her back on the first RAW of 2015. WWE wanted to bring her back with a surprise return on the January 5th RAW but it was nixed due to her neck injury.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The new WWE Network deal that Rogers has finalized with Bell Canada begins on January 15th and will definitely increase Network subscriptions as Bell customers have been heavily requesting it. The Rogers launch of the WWE Network was seen as a success and the Bell launch will likely be as successful.
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Just to clarify, the new deal is for more of the current tv channel type and not them getting the US type version.
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Originally Posted by Observer
WrestleMania 31 in Santa Clara, California may see the doors to Levi's Stadium open as early as 1:30pm local time. Part of the reason for that is WWE looking to combat the other afternoon indie wrestling events in the year. WWE is really planning to lock down venues in the city of Dallas in 2016 for WrestleMania 32 as they've been trying to keep the indie promotions piggy-backing on WrestleMania away
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Originally Posted by F4W
It doesn't appear WWE Main Event will be back on the network for several months.
Sources close to the situation indicate the contract issue between WWE and Sky Sports doesn't at this time look like it will be resolved any time soon, so until the network has geoblocking put in, where Main Event could air in the rest of the world but not in the U.K. market, it contractually is not able to air on the WWE Network.
The current time frame appears to be late summer or early fall for geoblocking to be put into place and the expectation would be that Main Event would return to the WWE Network at that time.
The show will continue to be taped due to international broadcast commitments but it would have no television home in the United States, but will remain available on Hulu.
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WWE really messed up with how they handled the Network in the UK and pissing off Sky Sports. The reason why Main Event was a Network only show was because nobody else was interested in carrying it once Ion TV dropped out.
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USA Network President Chris McCumber announced eariler today that the USA Network will be bringing back Tough Enough.
The show will have live elements and interactive element.
The plan is to start filming after WrestleMania and the format will be wrestlers under contract to WWE, but not yet having appeared on television.
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Some other sheet news include Dave Meltzer debunked almost all the stories Hogan told on the recent podcast with Jericho. Recomended to skip to the podcast unless you wanted a laugh at the BS Hogan was saying.