RAW was an interesting show this week, as we saw some big returns and also some highly-anticipated segments, even if they did not turn out as expected. The company aired the big segments in order to be done by the top of each hour.
On Figure Four Daily, Bryan Alvarez noted something that Dave Meltzer had mentioned earlier when talking about WWE’s reasoning for this choice of programming.
“Their theory was, ‘We’ll counteract the football game.’ That’s why they aired at those weird times. Clearly, it didn’t work. I don’t know why he was going to argue that people tune in at the top of each hour to see if there’s anything.”
“I mean I had people telling me all the next day emailing and texting saying, ‘Yeah, I do that! I don’t watch the whole show, I tune in at nine, I tune in at ten. I want to see what the big angles are and then I tune in at the end of the show.’”
“Like, people do that. They’ve done it for years and years and years. I don’t even know how you could argue that. That’s what a lot of people do.”
From the looks of it, Vince McMahon had a big idea to counterprogram against the NCAA College Football Championship game. Of course, this meant that people definitely missed a couple of big segments as they might have stayed long enough to see them if they saw it at the top hour.
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h/t to Ringside News for the transcription.
