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Is Chris Jericho working the boys over his WWE falling out?
In remarkably coincidental timing, as soon as the news leaked that supposedly Chris Jericho's contract negotiations to return to WWE had broken down, WWE started a viral marketing campaign, somewhat reminiscent of how they hyped Y2J's debut in 1999 and his first return to the company in 2007, to...
WWE Network start date rushed to jump the gun on UFC
Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer reported on today's free Wrestling Observer Radio show that the heavy promotion on last night's Raw that the WWE Network would debut sometime in 2012 was prompted by fears that their combat entertainment competitor UFC was going to start their our network soon and...
Analyst: WWE in many shades of trouble if HHH replaced Vince McMahon
Darren Rovell, an analyst for CNBC (which, like WWE's home on the USA Network, is owned by Comcast) just Tweeted the following about the...thing at the end of Raw announcing that Paul "Triple H" Levesque is replacing Vince McMahon as the man in charge of WWE on-screen and the wrestling end of the...
Harrell is Lucky Number Seven
Word came in last night that Charlotte, North Carolina offensive lineman Mark Harrell has committed to Notre Dame. The 6'5" 270 pounder from Charlotte Catholic High School is a little under the radar as a 3-star prospect and No. 47 ranked tackle according to Scout, but he is on the ESPNU 150...
2011 Blue-Gold Game to be Aired Live on Versus
Last summer I rolled out a nice long post about the possibilities of some sort of Notre Dame television network being born in the future. In there, I discussed some of the options the University has to expand its presence throughout the country and in particularly with regards to the football...
UFC in talks to buy 60% of the G4 cable network from Comcast
The big news today is that the Wall Street Journal (free registration required) and the New York Times are reporting that UFC is in negotiations to buy 60% of video game themed turned dollar store Spike TV cable network G4 from Comcast. According to Bloomberg.com, analysts value a G4 purchase at...
WWE Smackdown to move from My Network TV to Syfy in the fall
The L.A. Times' entertainment news blog is reporting that WWE Smackdown will, after 11 years on lower tier broadcast networks, be moving from My Network TV to cable's Syfy (the former Sci-Fi Channel, currently the home of WWE NXT) this fall. The deal will officially be announced later this week. ...
Imagine The World After A NBC Universal-Comcast Merger
This was a post I originally authored quite some time ago when the first rumors of an NBC-Comcast Merger went public. Now that the deal has been done and is awaiting regulatory approval, I thought it might be good to bring it back up here. Discussions have apparently been ongoing between Comcast...
Hockey: TV on the Fritz
The other day, Cassie wrote an article talking about the National Hockey League and their US television contract. The article started out with a lament we've all heard since 2005-06: people complaining they'd prefer games broadcast on ESPN as to Versus. There are so many extra facts and opinions...
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