UK Wrestling Ratings, THQ Posts Major Losses, Wrestlemania Bidding War
- Thanks to the BARB company for the following ratings data:
* Raw from April 20th drew 36,000 viewers in the live 2am airing and 62,000 viewers on the Thursday replay.
* The free TV version of the Lockdown PPV only drew 22,000 viewers on a tape delay. It aired Wednesday 22nd.
* April 23 TNA Impact drew 43,000 viewers. [Almost double the free PPV].
* SmackDown from April 24 drew 73,000 in the first airing and 35,000 on Saturday April 25’s morning replay.
To summarize fans tend to watch Impact but pay no attention to the PPVs (they aren’t hyped very well locally), and the first airings of WWE Raw generally draw low due to the late time slot.
- According to TradingMarkets.com THQ, which produces the WWE video games posted losses of $830 million. Despite this, the Legends of Wrestling video game and the WWE series in general are considered a “product driver” and one of their main cash cows with consistent sales.
Equally Midway Games, which is going through hell is still firmly behind TNA Impact the video game 2.
- Wrestlemania is becoming a huge economy driver for the cities that get to host it, and has turned in to a fully fledged bidding war.
Arizona won the pitch for Wrestlemania 26 next year, but cities vying for later events include Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville Florida. So we’ll almost certainly see a Floridian city host it again at some point in the future.
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great and most likely I will be out of Tampa by then! Crap!
When Wrestlemania was on Detroit, I was suprised at the amount of Europeans hanging out for the whole weekend. I had keep telling everyone NOT to go to 8 mile. It was great! I wore a mask and walked around downtown. If you know Detroit, you’d know you can’t do that everyday.
I always miss the TNA PPVs. Wednesday is a bad night for recording stuff for me, and I’ve usually managed to stumble across spoilers by then. The show usually sounds so bad, I just don’t bother.
Great ratings for WWE.