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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat
Mostly in regards to the idea that NXT has a very sizable amount of viewers who don't watch live and instead on the Network. Network subs have started to trend downwards meaning that pool of potential viewers has been shrinking.
If NXT starts to increase in live viewers then that could be a sign those who are dropping their subs switched over but if it doesn't, then those are lost viewers for NXT and maybe even WWE in general.
Likely won't really know until the next fiscal quarter report since by then enough weeks would have passed to figure out that viewership situation. The one WWE recently released doesn't cover October.
Not sure if its going to remain the case but until NXT's move to cable tv, PPVs and NXT were the biggest drivers for subs for the Network. NXT was also among the biggest in terms of enticing people to keep their subs after the free month.
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Yeah, I get all that, but why does a 9% drop mean that people aren’t watching NXT on the Network? How do we know how many of them now watch on USA versus how many still watch on the Network? WWE don’t release numbers for that, do they?
If 500,000 people used to watch on the Network, 400,000 could still watch now. Or less. Or even more.