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The CW 2023-2024 season thread

Will_H_69_9 said:
if NBCUniversal isn't gonna retain WWE Programming in 2024, then AEW would wind up on USA or NBC before the CW.
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Looks like NBCUniversal is doubling down on WWE programming, even taking Smackdown from Fox. Not surprising seeing as how Peacock has the WWE network now.

As for AEW, it'll come down to "is it profitable". If it isn't profitable for WB, it's unlikely to be profitable for The CW, and they don't appear to want to take huge risks on profits, so I wouldn't count on them picking up AEW (unless it becomes cheap).
 
The overuse of acronyms in this thread has me completely lost. I'm guessing that "NWA" doesn't stand for "Ni***z With Attitude" in this context but maybe it does. ECW? ACW?
 
valvashon said:
The overuse of acronyms in this thread has me completely lost. I'm guessing that "NWA" doesn't stand for "Ni***z With Attitude" in this context but maybe it does. ECW? ACW?
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NWA-Nationwide Wrestling Alliance
ECW-Extreme Championship Wrestling
 
and somehow, NWA has been around longer then anyone thought, as the promotion began in 1948 and has gone through a lot of evolution from being the sanctioning body behind most of pro wrestling to becoming the promotion that oversaw Jim Crockett Promotions/WCW in the 1980s to early 1990s to surviving the WCW split, surviving a brief partnership with ECW (when the E stood for Eastern and not Extreme) which ended with Shane Douglas throwing the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship on the ground to denounce the belt as being associated with the past and that it lead to the birth of "Extreme Championship Wrestling", surviving their partnership with the then TNA Wrestling (now Impact Wrestling) to a dark period of NWA in the late 2000s to 2010s until Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins fame bought it out and became the promoter of NWA.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
and somehow, NWA has been around longer then anyone thought, as the promotion began in 1948 and has gone through a lot of evolution from being the sanctioning body behind most of pro wrestling to becoming the promotion that oversaw Jim Crockett Promotions/WCW in the 1980s to early 1990s to surviving the WCW split, surviving a brief partnership with ECW (when the E stood for Eastern and not Extreme) which ended with Shane Douglas throwing the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship on the ground to denounce the belt as being associated with the past and that it lead to the birth of "Extreme Championship Wrestling", surviving their partnership with the then TNA Wrestling (now Impact Wrestling) to a dark period of NWA in the late 2000s to 2010s until Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins fame bought it out and became the promoter of NWA.
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Also, what we now know as WWE broke away from the NWA in the early 1960s, as did the American Wrestling Association (AWA), which gained a national following in the 1980s when it was televised by ESPN.

Long story short, 5 major promotions (WWE, Impact, WCW, ECW, AWA) began as NWA affiliates/territories, and then broke out as national companies in their own right.

Will_H_69_9 said:
Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins fame bought it out and became the promoter of NWA.
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And this isn't even Corgan's first foray into wrestling, as he had previously served as president/booker of Impact Wrestling in the mid 2010s.
 
TVCOOL said:
NWA Powerrr on the CW is an automatic win in the grand scheme of things with cord cutting rising. Too bad back in the day ECW couldn't get on a UPN or WB.
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A win for who? Smackdown is on Fox and pulls in a .62 on Friday nights, or around 2.4 million viewers. By comparison, Last Man Standing, also on Fridays, did double the audience.

AEW's biggest show (Dynamite) doesn't even crack a million viewers. And even Raw is down to a 0.44 rating. Wrestling just isn't as popular as it was back when Raw and Nitro were EACH pulling a 4-5 share. There just isn't really room for a 3rd "big" promotion. I suppose if cheap enough The CW will try it, but I think the days of being super successful when airing wrestling are behind us.

As to cord cutting, people aren't doing that to run to broadcast TV. They are doing that to run to streaming providers.
 
WWE Smackdown will be returning to USA in fall 2024 as Fox didn't renew with WWE. NWA is the little wrestling org that could I'm surprised it has made it for over 70+ years. I think NWA should do alright for The CW when that debut next year.
 
Megatron said:
WWE Smackdown will be returning to USA in fall 2024 as Fox didn't renew with WWE. NWA is the little wrestling org that could I'm surprised it has made it for over 70+ years. I think NWA should do alright for The CW when that debut next year.
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yep, unless a top 4 network picks up the TV Rights for WWE Monday Night Raw (and possibly moves it away from Mondays to avoid the NFL competition during the football season), it's looking like WWE's TV future is back to what it was in the 2010s, exclusively behind a TV Network on basic cable or streaming on a platform, either way, it's gonna be behind a paywall, which sucks for those who watched WWE via OTA during 1999-2010 and again in 2019 to next fall.
 
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