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Smackdown CANCELLED by the CW!?

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter
How can we live in a world without SMACKDOWN?
 
It quite saddens me to know of the existence of subhumans who watch such garbage.
 
ANYway...

The CW wasn't doing wrestling any favors. They're half a network at best. They probably couldn't afford to keep them.

I'm sure it will show up on another channel, probably Spike or USA or maybe Lifetime.
 
Where is this world going to ?
 
?? It's gone?
The only one that you can get on regular tv?
No subscription required?
SHITE!!!
 
Anyone who watches this shit who happens to be over 9 years old should be sodomized immediately.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
ANYway...

The CW wasn't doing wrestling any favors. They're half a network at best. They probably couldn't afford to keep them.

I'm sure it will show up on another channel, probably Spike or USA or maybe Lifetime.
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Lifetime?
 
My bet is Oxygen
 
the B E T word on that d o double g!
 
So it's okay to sodomise 10 year old boys but not watch grown men pretend to sodomise each other?
 
Wow, did I miss a memo...
 
THOSE HOLLYWOOF FAT CATS HAVE A LOT TO ANSWER FOR. BUT THEY'RE TOO BUSY EATING. EATING MONEY.
 
I might have to start going out into the real world on friday nights...
 
I would have figured Smackdown would be one its higher rated shows.
 
I think it was.
 
I was their second highest rated show, I think, after America's Next Top Model.
 
It was about declining ratings and changing demographics:
The CW Shuts Down 'Smackdown'

John Consoli
FEB 08, 2008

The CW has terminated its relationship with Vince and Linda McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment and will no longer air WWE Smackdown after Sept. 12, 2008.

A brief statement by the network said, “After a successful decade of Smackdown on both UPN and The CW, The CW and World Wrestling Entertainment have agreed to conclude our partnership. We are grateful to Linda and Vince McMahon and their entire organization for providing great entertainment to our viewers for so many years.”

The wrestling show first began airing on UPN and was picked up for The CW when UPN merged with The WB two years ago.

The negotiating window for a new deal between The CW and WWE ended on Jan. 31, according to sources familiar with the negotiations, and a new rights fee could not be agreed upon.

The CW insiders said the network was not exactly excited about renewing, since the Smackdown adult 18-34 rating this season had decreased to a 1.4, which made it only the seventh highest-rated show on the network in prime time.

Another issue that led to the CW’s decision to drop Smackdown was that the show was entirely young-male oriented and then network was not able to use it’s Friday night telecast to promote its female-skewing Sunday programming.

“There was absolutely no audience flow to any of our other shows,” a CW insider said. “No one who watched Smackdown watched any of our other shows on any other night.

Smackdown was originally a time buy on UPN, where it first aired beginning 10 years ago. Several years ago, UPN began selling the ad time on Smackdown and when UPN and The WB merged into The CW two years ago, The CW sales staff began selling ad time for it.

Selling ads on Smackdown became challenged, sources said, because it could not be sold in combination or as part of packages with other CW female-skewing shows.

“I think we just knew it was time to move in another direction,” a CW insider said.
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UPN was a guy's network. CW is a chick channel. The chicks said, "Not in the house!"
 
Maybe they'll recombine the rosters and make RAW FOUR HOURS LONG every Monday!
 
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