February 12, 201411 yr comment_5587663 BTW, i posted a link with 2006-2013 WWE PPV buys (with citiations from Wrestling Observer) split worldwide/domestic on my blog back in December: http://indeedwrestling.blogspot.com/2013/12/wwe-2006-2013-ppv-numbers-and-lengthy.html
January 20, 201510 yr comment_5650195 Confirmation that WM1 was on PPV from Broadcasting. It did a 10% buyrate among however few homes actually had access.
January 20, 201510 yr comment_5650205 A few weeks after Survivor Series '87, Titan was claiming a 7.5% buyrate for about 525,000 buys in the available universe, which I kind of doubt.
January 20, 201510 yr comment_5650211 A few weeks after Survivor Series '87, Titan was claiming a 7.5% buyrate for about 525,000 buys in the available universe, which I kind of doubt.
January 20, 201510 yr comment_5650247 How the hell did this ended up with an image from a TV channel from Chile?
January 20, 201510 yr comment_5650249 Whatever happened to our topic maker? Did he go off the rails and I've forgotten it?
February 16, 201510 yr comment_5654510 Just on the Mania 12 and Good Friends, Better Enemies buyrates, Meltzer at the time tabbed them as: Mania 12: 1.2 buyrate, 300,000 buys IYH7: 0.81 and 190,000 buys
August 13, 20196 yr comment_5896615 *bump* I found a Kagan-sourced chart of the top 20 PPVs of the '80s in the November 1989 issue of Channels, which includes the PPV universe, buy rate, and gross for each show. I proceeded to write way too much about it: https://babyfacevheel.substack.com/p/i-fell-down-a-historical-ppv-buy (If you want to skip to the key data for now, that's all in bold text, so you can skim before you read.) Only one of the numbers, Survivor Series '87, is the same as what we've always used. The rest fluctuate greatly, usually upwards. Maybe because the newsletters generally reported on buy rates just a few weeks out when accurate PPV data always took famously long amounts of time to come in? (Also, not in the chart, but something I included citing a different Channels article: The first WrestleMania apparently did over 100,000 buys on PPV, which is pretty incredible given the limited clearances and the national publicity explicitly advertising the arena experience.) I'm VERY curious what everyone else thinks.
August 13, 20196 yr comment_5896627 Awesome stuff Bix! For comparison sake what was the size of the PPV universe during the attitude era?
August 13, 20196 yr comment_5896640 "Ten million people went to wrestling matches during the past year [1988], and 30 million watch them on TV each week. The audience is not only in trailer parks and six -flats but in the Princeton Club of New York, where the downstairs TV set is often tuned to wrestling on Saturday. Although yuppies and their journalistic camp followers discovered wrestling a couple of years ago and gave it a tussle, its life in the mainstream has endured..." https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Channels-of-Communication/Channels-1989-01.pdf How do these Hulkamania numbers compare to previous eras (1940s-1950s Gorgeous George/DuMont Network, 1970s territories, early 1980s TBS)?
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