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KKLEIN wrote:From the hilariously dilapidated car Shawn Michaels was driving off in, to the overblown sound effects, that closing segment on RAW was comedy gold.

While outwardly, nobody can say anything negative, the feedback we’ve gotten internally has been almost all negative. There is the feeling that the two hours drags most weeks and adding a third won’t be a benefit. It’s unknown exactly how this went down other than for years USA has been interested in a third hour of Raw, and WWE has not been interested.

systematic wrote:It's USA that wants the three hours, not WWE.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1194 ... hed-for-it

While outwardly, nobody can say anything negative, the feedback we’ve gotten internally has been almost all negative. There is the feeling that the two hours drags most weeks and adding a third won’t be a benefit. It’s unknown exactly how this went down other than for years USA has been interested in a third hour of Raw, and WWE has not been interested.

I don't think Vince can turn down an extra $5 million + a year for the extra hour anymore lol.

If I used just the wrestlers I already had in another two-hour show, I'd overexpose them. I'd also run the risk of watering the stories down to the point where they wouldn't be significant any longer. And that assumed I didn't run them down to the point of sheer exhaustion. Another show meant I had to add on-air talent and writers or bookers as well.

Adding more house shows only made morale worse. It contradicted one of the basic rules I'd followed in making WCW profitable. One of the draws for talent had been the fact that we put on substantially less shows per year than WWE. The better quality of life had been a big motivator, a reason for wrestlers to join us. Now we'd taken that away. I tried to split up the wrestlers and rotate the schedule, but the load remained much heavier than it had been. Wrestlers weren't the only ones who were stretched either. The production people, the office staff, and the people in our support positions also had to do more. Some complained and were generally uncomfotable, even though they soldiered on. It was more a slow burn than an explosion.

Besides Thunder and additional house shows, we expanded Nitro to three hours. There was no additional expense doing that, because everybody was already there. Whether you do a one-hour show or a three-hour show, 95% of the costs are the same. But the problem was, the expansion meant we had to fill the extra forty-four minutes with content. That helped overexpose the talent, watering down the impact of a lot of what we were doing.

Prototype wrote:Looking forward to some reactionary changes.

The Trendrr.tv social media score for Monday's 3-Hour WWE RAW was 369,933, down 8% from last week (401,202). RAW ranked #5 on cable TV, trailing "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" (VH1), "Teen Wolf" (MTV) and Shark Week programming (Discovery).

captain red dog wrote:3 hours is too long for any show. They seem to be really sacrificing creativity to do everything they can to keep Linda's campaign free of controversy. Sadly Linda won her primary yesterday so expect WWE to stick along the same course until the general election is done in Nov.

Prototype wrote:That poster.

Morgan knows the score. Absolutely awesome.