Source: Pyro And Ballyhoo
\nVince Russo has a new blog on his official website titled, “Stop The Bull: The ‘REAL’ Reason Behind The RAW Ratings.” Here’s part of what Russo wrote:<\/p>\n
But HERE is where the problem with the WWE and its current ratings lie.
\nMoments after the baby bull was decapitated from behind, John Cena was in the middle of the ring telling Bray Wyatt, “Payback is a B***H!”. Whoa\u2014now wait a minute. If I brought little Johnny, and he came to see the baby bull\u2014what do I do now? Do I cover his ears? Do I up and leave? Do I never come back to see another WWE event live? Do I stop watching the show all together? What do I do with this BLATANT MIXED MESSAGE THAT WAS JUST THROWN MY WAY?!!!<\/p>\n“You can’t be half pregnant”.<\/p>\n
Vince McMahon said that to me many, many years ago, and it has become my #1 rule when scripting wrestling. What Vince meant was that when you make the decision to do something\u2014YOU GO ALL THE WAY WITH IT! So, the WWE made the decision to go family friendly\u2014they told us all\u2013however, the problem is that they’re not going all the way with it\u2014-they are BEING HALF PREGNANT. Is this because in reality they, themselves as a company, haven’t bought 100% into it, and are just trying to “appease” the board, or, are there other reasons simply steaming from greediness?<\/p>\n
Could the reason they haven’t committed one way, or the other, be this simple\u2014from a philosophic point of view\u2014the WWE is trying to capture EVERYONE!? Whereas networks these days are going for the demo P (people) 18-49, the WWE is going for P 5-65. In other words\u2014in typical Vince fashion\u2014they want it ALL!!! And, in theory, there is nothing wrong with that\u2014it’s how Vince made all that money. Go for it all\u2014and leave nothing behind. But that’s only in “theory”.<\/p>\n
Back in 2002, I almost went back to the WWE because I took it personally that, within the matter of a little over a two-year span, their ratings had split in half from the time that I had left\u2013they had fallen below a 3.0. Today\u2013a DOZEN years later\u2014the ratings are still where they were then. When it comes to eyeballs on TVs every Monday night\u2014half of the people are watching now, compared to when the “Attitude Era” was in full stride. Yeah\u2014they’ll fling every excuse at you. Primarily\u2014the television landscape has changed with the internet, iphones, ipads, whatever\u2013OK, good argument. HOWEVER\u2013if that were the case, then why hasn’t the NFL lost half its audience in the last 12 years? They’re on TV, right? Other ways to watch their product are out there\u2014just like in the WWE’s case.<\/p>\n
No\u2013that’s a BS excuse. We saw within a five-minute span on “Raw” last night why the ratings are HALF of what they used to be. In attempting to obtain ALL\u2014the WWE has literally alienated, or “turned off” half their audience in the process. Don’t believe me\u2014see what the IWS community has to say about last night’s “Raw” today. Yeah\u2014they loved the Shield brawling with Evolution at the end\u2014but, the baby bull\u2014not so much. And what about the “families”? Oh, yeah, that bull thing was “cute”, but John Cena swearing\u2014not so much. Now, if you keep doing this week in, and week out, the things you “don’t like” will eventually start to build, or add up\u2014until all of a sudden\u2014it’s OK if we miss “Raw” this week. Well, this week turns into next week, and the next week\u2014until they’re not watching anymore.<\/p>\n
By trying to be “all things to all people”\u2013which they can’t be\u2014nobody can\u2013the WWE has shot themselves in the boot. For every kid they are gaining, they are losing an adult, and for every adult they are gaining\u2014they are losing a kid. It a switch-off, an exchange, a vicious cycle.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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