Hard to believe, what with all the dreams of an HBO Go freed from the cable conglomerate tether; of YouTube and Netflix and Hulu not as second run content providers, but the models of future media; that it is the last great carny wrestling promoter, (the peddler of content so belittled by mainstream media outlets that his television ratingings are less valued than other sports with less viewers), Vince McMahon who might have stuck the first dagger in Big Tv's entrammeled heart.
The WWE Network is ten bucks a month. It includes the monthly PPVs that did cost fifty. It includes the tape library of every major wrestling television programming in American history, on demand. It includes every WWE pay per view in history, on demand. It is wrestling Netflix, YouTube, and special event viewer, all in one, streamed via Apple, Playstation, Xbox, Roku, Internet TV, or computer. But not available on television in the old way. Vince is the first content provider to cut the throat of that longstanding middleman. Even as cable kills network, the creators kill them.
One wonders how much credit the carny will get once some Bill Maher or Will Ferrell tries the same thing. Certainly Vinnie Mac is not the guy the New York Times is looking to fete. Fuck'em. Just another dinosaur drowning in the swamp, that turd newspaper.
Progress, comrades!
The WWE Network is ten bucks a month. It includes the monthly PPVs that did cost fifty. It includes the tape library of every major wrestling television programming in American history, on demand. It includes every WWE pay per view in history, on demand. It is wrestling Netflix, YouTube, and special event viewer, all in one, streamed via Apple, Playstation, Xbox, Roku, Internet TV, or computer. But not available on television in the old way. Vince is the first content provider to cut the throat of that longstanding middleman. Even as cable kills network, the creators kill them.
One wonders how much credit the carny will get once some Bill Maher or Will Ferrell tries the same thing. Certainly Vinnie Mac is not the guy the New York Times is looking to fete. Fuck'em. Just another dinosaur drowning in the swamp, that turd newspaper.
Progress, comrades!
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