Originally Posted by hazydayz:
“I use sport as an example, just like I used the Walking Dead as an example to show that if you have something that people are interested in THEY WILL WATCH IT ON TV. You talk like watching on tablets and phones and computers and using apps is the way of the future and maybe it is the way of the future and maybe watching TV the way we do now where a program is on once and once only unless you DVR it is a past time but they prove that people will still watch live sports and they will watch TV shows if they want to. They will sit in front of an actual TV, with a paid subscription to those channels and watch it.
And there might be a new way of measuring a program's success and they might bring in social media and they might be able to use the apps and Hulu and Youtube and give an accurate number of people and the ages of those people watching the show but until that system is made public, all we have are the old way of doing things, the old way of measuring an audience. That's all we have so that is what everything is based on. I don't think the current system is accurate, I don't think Barb is accurate either but that's all we have, they're the only numbers we have. I'm sure far behind the scenes all the big companies have microchips in those boxes sending back info, I'm sure they know exactly who is watching each channel and how long they watch for but there must be a reason why they have stuck with the system in place for so long.”
But its heading towards being more then a TV show, Its had to TV viewing is no longer enough for them as a company they want more (and more so when traditional tv viewing dies), They branching into other fields etc. A company cannot just stay in one field if it wants to get bigger and again with new ways to watching the product TV is just one small way of doing so
That's not all we have, We have social media, We have You Tube we have loads of different ways of measuring the important things to the company, They would rather have a link up with a certain company then the numbers of viewers they had back in the day because it helps them grow as a business more, TV companies will also benefit from the WWE having that link. Times are changing. Watching TV is changing, Everything about how we get our entertainment is changing,
Vince seems to have always wanted the company to be more then a Wrestling Company (and rightly so) and he is getting to that stage now, I would not be surprised to see them by an actual TV/production studio next next, Its a very logical step, They have the resources and the talent to make it worthwhile and now they have the contacts, Being just a wrestling company restricts what they can do.