Posted August 13, 201411 yr comment_5618650 After waiting months for WWE Network to get a Canadian launch...this is what we are treated to...a farce. Rogers paid WWE money to get an exclusive on what should be a netflix like service. Although I do have Rogers as a provider...I'm not upgrading my cable bill JUST to get the network. Same as it ever was in the great white north.... slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/MatMatters/2014/08/12/21869386.html slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2014/08/13/21871016.html I am boycotting until we get the same kind of service available in the US.
August 13, 201411 yr comment_5618715 So I don't know how things like this work. Why is it so hard just to let people with Canadian IP addresses register on their website? Or IPs from anywhere in the world?
August 13, 201411 yr Author comment_5618716 There is a whole 39 hours available right now for your money.
August 13, 201411 yr comment_5618717 So I don't know how things like this work. Why is it so hard just to let people with Canadian IP addresses register on their website? Or IPs from anywhere in the world? As long as the Rogers money is higher than the expected number of Canadian subscribers times 7 (or whatever is left after paying MLB and considering organization) it is the right choice from a business perspective.
August 13, 201411 yr comment_5618745 Kinda reminds of 1993 when Raw debuted and we couldn't get it in my part of Canada for another 2 years, and then it was on like Friday nights at 11pm or some such shitty timeslot.
August 13, 201411 yr comment_5618749 So I don't know how things like this work. Why is it so hard just to let people with Canadian IP addresses register on their website? Or IPs from anywhere in the world? As long as the Rogers money is higher than the expected number of Canadian subscribers times 7 (or whatever is left after paying MLB and considering organization) it is the right choice from a business perspective. Pretty much. I'm assuming Rogers only* needed to toss the WWE about $10 million per year (so just at the nine figure range for the length of the contract). WWE likely assumed, after assessing their US totals, that it was more than enough to believe it's a safe gain in Canada. *what they're paying WWE is still a fraction of what they're paying the NHL, I'm guessing
August 14, 201411 yr comment_5618884 Why did wwe do the cable channel in Canada? Are they offering the streaming, also?
August 14, 201411 yr Author comment_5618933 The WWE took the cable route because (in my cynical view) ROGERS cable offered them some money. The WWE doesn't realize the most successful entertainment entity in Canada is NETFLIX -- everybody who can get it does. The reviews are in and they ain't pretty: slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2014/08/13/21871531.html This is the core WWE audience talking -- not casual fans.
August 15, 201411 yr comment_5619018 This all seems so backwards. This isn't 1982. Why the hell would WWE go the TV route for its programming? Were there some technical hangups? It couldn't have all boiled down simply to dollars and sense. Unless the money WWE is getting from Rogers will help supplement The Network's 'income' as it continues to lose WWE money.
August 17, 201411 yr comment_5619468 I'm just concerned Rogers will start blocking certain things that allow me to watch the real network. This tv deal sounds horrendous.
August 17, 201411 yr comment_5619492 Pretty positive that was exactly why they went this route. Vince didn't screw Canada. Canada screwed Canada. It'd be sort of funny if there was a backlash to this from the crowd next time they're in Canada for a Raw.
August 19, 201411 yr comment_5620426 Meltzer says it's been a huge success in Canada. Sorry guys. Did he explain how? It's not available to hardly anyone, free for those who do get it, hasn't passed CRTC approval yet and did I mention most of the country doesn't get it?
August 20, 201411 yr comment_5620541 Meltzer says it's been a huge success in Canada. Sorry guys. Did he explain how? It's not available to hardly anyone, free for those who do get it, hasn't passed CRTC approval yet and did I mention most of the country doesn't get it? I have Rogers. It's not free.
August 20, 201411 yr comment_5620585 Meltzer says it's been a huge success in Canada. Sorry guys. Did he explain how? It's not available to hardly anyone, free for those who do get it, hasn't passed CRTC approval yet and did I mention most of the country doesn't get it? I have Rogers. It's not free. Mistyped on my part. I meant that it was still in the free preview stage. Which, since I'm with Bell, I should frame as a question rather than as a statement.
August 20, 201411 yr comment_5620591 Mistyped on my part. I meant that it was still in the free preview stage. Which, since I'm with Bell, I should frame as a question rather than as a statement. Not a free preview, either. There's an explanation here: http://communityforums.rogers.com/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/PVR_settop_boxes_remotes/thread-id/18941 Does WWE Net Pak have a Free Preview? There is no Free Preview of WWE Net Pak. WWE Net Pak is a monthly Pay Per View package for only $11.99/month that is a Preview of the best of the WWE Network. The use of the word “Preview” has caused some confusion with customers thinking this means it’s a Free Preview. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. The only thing I heard close to it is that if you order the Net Pak, the initial two weeks is free, which seems strange in itself. But not the same as a provider simply playing the channel for free for a certain period of time, without the customer asking them to.
August 21, 201411 yr Author comment_5620787 Meltzer, in his dotage, must be reading from a fucking WWE press release
August 22, 201411 yr comment_5620877 Just that it's (in Alvarez's words) exceeded expectations. Expectations must have been pretty low, then.
August 22, 201411 yr comment_5620880 Just that it's (in Alvarez's words) exceeded expectations. Expectations must have been pretty low, then. Which makes me wonder the following: 1. What WWE's expectations in Canada were and how much money they would've made had it been strictly OTT. 2. What Rogers paid WWE and how much of a difference it was compared to the money predicted in 1. 3. How many subscribers they're actually getting from approximately only 20% of the country right now, and if that actually changes projections once the service (eventually) expands. 4. If it means Rogers makes a significant amount of money from this. 5. If it's all bullshit.
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