So here’s the thing. I’m watching Velocity. I’ve already done Heat – I just haven’t pushed the right buttons so it’s up here. 2 segments in – enough to continue my preoccupation with the WGTT/Funaki non-issue and wonder why they just turn more things into angles in the hopes that something actually clicks – but now we’re into Rhyno/Kanyon, two guys I like enough not to just go “Gore (x:xx)” and more on, but I just don’t have any energy (or interest?) to recap anymore. Right now. At least right now. Even the promise of personal fav American Dragon (and versus Spanky!! oh the fun that’ll be had) can’t keep me going.
It’s also 2 AM. I’m not sure if I should sleep or not, because my sleep has gotten completely messed up by this point. But I just feel tired of this.
Problem is, if I don’t finish Velocity by 5-ish tomorrow, it won’t turn up on OO till Wednesday. And that seems always seems like a personal failure. And I’ve had my fill of them.
The deal with the RunDown that I wanted to point out, but don’t feel like a going into much detail, is that Thursday night advertising is traditionally bought out by movie companies to promote whatever’s debuting the next night. This is why NBC and CBS are in a death struggle (well, from the looks of ratings things, it’s pretty clear that NBC is the only suffering from death) for being the highest rated network on the night; higher ratings (and being #1) equals more money they can charge to the movie people, who don’t really have any options about going at some other time for it being cheaper.
UPN is a relatively smaller player in this (and everything else), but SmackDown! does attract a fair amount of the typical target movie audience – particularly if it’s a big blockbuster action type deal.
The Rundown is pretty close to that.
And it bombed. Well, maybe that’s too harsh – but it didn’t come close to it’s expectations.
SmackDown! already doesn’t get it’s “fair share” of ad revenue. And if I’m a movie exec, and I notice that a movie the WWE tirelessly worked to promote failed that badly, I don’t think putting my own (lesser) ads on during
This is just a theory. I’m sure either movie execs don’t care about these things, or they have people researching these things so they know where the money’s both well spent. Or someplace in the middle – like I know.
But if we still had someone who chronicled commercials around, it could be interesting to research if the number of movie ads before, during and after the Rundown. Last thing the WWE needs is one more dwindling source of funds.
That was the short version? Egads.
Gonna get some water. Then post Heat. Then, whatever.
There’s bucketloads of movie ads during Raw on TSN and Smackdown on The Score in Canada, but it’s all for bad, bad movies. If a movie is guaranteed to stink (Freddy Got Fingered, Stealing Harvard, The Animal), it’ll be advertised to death.