Posted by Cheryl
on 10/29/2009, 10:38 am, in reply to "Re: USWO STANDING ROOM ONLY"
Message modified by user Cheryl 10/29/2009, 10:42 am
I do actually love classic wrestling. Have a collection of a few hundred DVDs. My place in the wrestling business is actually in filming for television and promoting by creating flyers for events. I've filmed promos for wrestlers ranging from Anthony Wayne to Al Snow, and if all goes well, Mick Foley in January. I know plenty about promoting and television wrestling. Television has changed a lot too. Most people have a choice of 200+ channels to watch in any given time slot. It's not like it was when you had 3 networks, and maybe three UHF. There weren't even DVDs back then, or Netflix, or the Internet. Getting a following for a television show isn't as easy as it used to be. And there's even more money needed to promote a TV show to gain an audience and in turn to get the TV audience to the shows. TV may help, and enough promoters are trying it to see if it will help attendance. But, there's probably more money to be made from getting sponsors and advertisers for the TV shows, than there is from extra attendance at the matches.
Is the wrestling business the same now as it was back then? We all agree it is not. There aren't a few hundred coming to each wrestling event in Nashville every week. So, talking about the way it WAS doesn't matter a whole lot in making something successful TODAY.
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