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Old 07-12-2019, 01:55 AM   #51121
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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat View Post
According to the Observer and Fightful, WWE is currently working on major plans for NXT and their house shows on Saturdays. Main reason is due to them feeling worried over AEW's potential as a competitor.

According to the Observer, WWE has been in recent talks with FS1 to have NXT air on the network in order to directly compete against AEW's weekly show. Fightful hinted that WWE is also working on plans to counter AEW's PPVs on Saturdays with Network specials on those days and likely them leaning a lot more on their partner companies to help out.
I mean, that's fine on paper, but this is a different time than like it was during the Monday Night Wars*.

The idea of counter-programming is a bit dumb when the world is moving beyond the concept of appointment TV. Anyone truly interested won't be picking one show over the other, they'll be watching both when they're good and goddamn ready to: possibly neither one "live".

I mean, great to get some NXT love on actual television, but hopefully they'll be using it as more of a broadened technical course for Full Sail communications people and not as an earnest attempt to dissuade folks from tuning in to AEW.


*Even then, there was a point where WCW started re-running Nitro later on - even though they would gradually push that rerun later and later - , so it was fiesable to watch both RAW and Nitro if you watched WWE first.
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