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WWE News: WWE executive explains the decision to change PPV names
PWTorch.com —
... our affiliates."
Overall, Clifford said WWE cut back its expectations for PPV buys during the recent economic downturn. He said WWE is on target to meet revenue goals after the changes.
"We have a long history of looking at our PPV events and we have a pretty good idea of where they are going to land," he said. "We took into account the economy and cut back our expectations a bit, so we’re pretty much on budget, which is a good thing for us."
Link: Multichannel News story.
WWE official says the company hasn't ruled out dropping some pay-per-view events from the schedule, explains why several pay-per-view names were changed
PROWRESTLING.NET —
... events from the schedule. "We’re constantly looking at our product to find out how to make it better,” Clifford told Multichannel News. Clifford also noted that he's hopeful that changing the names of some pay-per-view events will lead to more buys. "We’ve been doing these PPVs for a few years and we felt that some of the PPVs were a little flat in terms of what we wanted the titles to project, so we looked to see which ones we can rename,” he said. To read the full story, visit Multichannel.com. Powell's POV: The story noted that WWE hasn't ruled out "dropping some monthly ...
WWE doesn't rule out dropping PPV's
WrestleView.com —
... It is interesting to note that Clifford didn't rule out WWE possibly dropping some PPV events from the yearly schedule and talked about changing names of some events to freshen them up. Clifford added, "We have a long history of looking at our PPV events and we have a pretty good idea of where they are going to land. We took into account the economy and cut back our expectations a bit, so were pretty much on budget, which is a good thing for us." To check out the full interview, click here . ...
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... events, including renaming September's Unforgiven event to Breaking Point. “We’ve been doing these PPVs for a few years and we felt that some of the PPVs were a little flat in terms of what we wanted the titles to project, so we looked to see which ones we can rename,” he said. Clifford also wouldn't rule out dropping some monthly PPV events to maximize overall annual buys. “We’re constantly looking at our product to find out how to make it better.” To read the whole interview, visit Multichannel.com . -- J.D. Costello, President & CEO of the National Wrestling Alliance's ...
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