Wrestling Pay-Per-View buys have been in the toilet for a few years now because the only company in the wrestling business doing it right is ROH who is promoting their Pay-Per-View extremely hard on TV and maybe not the first to have Pay-Per-Views solely on the internet but they are making it affordable at 14.99 and they are not having a PPV every month like the other wrestling companies are doing in North America. So as of April 1 of 2012 (this is not an april fool's joke) the WWE will launch their very own TV station and may begin on the internet as not all TV companies will agree to the WWE terms of right fees right away but it looks like the non staple Pay-Per-Views will be put on this WWE TV station as incentive for the consumer to buy the station and will likely be in that 10-15 dollar range most likely and diffidently under 20 bucks a month which is way less than the 45 or 55 dollars a PPV costs. Which will diffidently more profitable than the WWE ondemand station has been and the WWE will not need to worry about if they are getting 75 thousand buys or a 175 thousand buys for a PPV and then they can go back to the late-80's - early-90's when they had quarterly PPVs with the Rumble in January, WrestleMania in late-March or early-April, Summerslam in August, and the Survivor Series in November with the hope to have better sales for the quarterly PPVs. Then there is TNA who lose money hand or fist on PPV as they use their PPVs to promote the TV when it should be the other way around and instead of having PPVs that U do not promote maybe have a three hour super show every 6 weeks that they build their product to just like a Saturday Night Main Event and maybe even put it on at like 9 PM on a Saturday night. They can keep doing PPVs but just make them every like three or four month and make it so the price is like 29.99 to attract audience because pricing it like the WWE is stupid as they have nowhere near the fan base the WWE has and lower price and fewer of them may make PPV not such a money loser.
The new PPV landscape is looking good for the WWE and ROH while TNA needs to join the party
Tom Mehegan
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