Awful Announcing
WWE changed course suddenly Friday, going from a plan of pre-taping shows through early May to taping all shows live each week. And many performers reportedly aren't happy about that.
Not the news you want to hear headed into WrestleMania...
Fox's two-hour broadcast averaged 2.588 million viewers, up from last week's 2.456 million number.
WWE needed to adjust due to the coronavirus and they made it work.
This felt inevitable.
Smackdown's Fox debut averaged 3.87 million viewers and a 1.4 in the adults 18-49 demographic.
After doing ads for Fox's college football and NFL properties, Wieden+Kennedy has now created an ad series promoting WWE Smackdown's fall move to Fox.
WWE is insisting this is all behind-the-scenes and not part of a storyline, but that could obviously change.
Vince McMahon claims that there will no longer be wrestling during commercial breaks on television.
WWE's stock fell over 10 percent Thursday after their Q1 numbers were well below many analysts' estimates.
The show would combine wrestlers from Raw and Smackdown Live each week.
Sami Zayn showed the kind of heel charisma that fans never knew he had.
Shane McMahon took an ill-advised approach to management vs. labor relations.
