The WWE Network App is Still on Charles's LG Television in Prayia's Room..... November 5th, 2022
November 5th, 2022
The WWE Network App is Still on Charles's LG Television in Prayia's Room..... November 5th, 2022
It's been over a year since all of WWE's content moved to Peacock. Maybe it's been two. I forget when exactly the switch was made. I never liked it. I wish that WWE had kept it as WWE Network, its own separate app. I'm sure it made good business sense to partner with NBC, even though, to my knowledge, neither Raw nor SmackDown are shown on NBC. I don't even know what channel SmackDown is on right now. I haven't really followed it since the days when it was on UPN. That was owned by Paramount, I think. Regardless, while it may have been sensible financially to move to Peacock, I think it's a slap in the face to wrestling, wrestlers and wrestling fans.
Vince McMahon has been viewed negatively for years because of his portrayal of wrestling as "sports entertainment." And while there were plenty of fun stuff on WWF/WWE over the last forty years, that term is just a disrespectful one. I don't think guys like Mick Foley or Stone Cold Steve Austin, wrestlers who have suffered very serious injuries in the ring, see themselves as "entertainers." So, moving half a century of wrestling over to an app that has Friends and Saturday Night Live on it just dilutes everything these guys have done. You're not wrestlers. You're just actors who pretend to do things on camera. Lorne Michaels may as well be the owner of WWE!
Secondly, when it comes to the fans, while WWF/WWE may have historic ties to MBC via Saturday Night's Main Event, the same can't be said for WCW, NWA, AWA, etc. Even if you're an eighties Rock & Wrestling fan who saw a lot of that stuff on NBC, WCW and the rest are far outside of that sphere, and their presence on Peacock is just aesthetically odd. But WWE owns it, so they can't just put old episodes of Nitro on whatever app TNT programs are shown on.
Finally, I mainly watch old stuff. It took me a little while to find WrestleMania! I didn't realize that each 'Mania would be categorized into "seasons." Again, that's another slap in the face to wrestlers, and finding content is just a burden.
Charles died on October 21st, 2022. Obviously, he wasn't able to watch WWE Network anymore. He had to go to Peacock to watch it. I never asked him, but I'm assuming that he probably shared a lot of the views I just expressed about wrestling and how WWE should be portrayed. He was a fan of WWE Network. I'm not surprised that he didn't have the heart to delete the app from the menu screen.
The WWE Network App is Still on Charles's LG Television in Prayia's Room..... November 5th, 2022
It's been over a year since all of WWE's content moved to Peacock. Maybe it's been two. I forget when exactly the switch was made. I never liked it. I wish that WWE had kept it as WWE Network, its own separate app. I'm sure it made good business sense to partner with NBC, even though, to my knowledge, neither Raw nor SmackDown are shown on NBC. I don't even know what channel SmackDown is on right now. I haven't really followed it since the days when it was on UPN. That was owned by Paramount, I think. Regardless, while it may have been sensible financially to move to Peacock, I think it's a slap in the face to wrestling, wrestlers and wrestling fans.
Vince McMahon has been viewed negatively for years because of his portrayal of wrestling as "sports entertainment." And while there were plenty of fun stuff on WWF/WWE over the last forty years, that term is just a disrespectful one. I don't think guys like Mick Foley or Stone Cold Steve Austin, wrestlers who have suffered very serious injuries in the ring, see themselves as "entertainers." So, moving half a century of wrestling over to an app that has Friends and Saturday Night Live on it just dilutes everything these guys have done. You're not wrestlers. You're just actors who pretend to do things on camera. Lorne Michaels may as well be the owner of WWE!
Secondly, when it comes to the fans, while WWF/WWE may have historic ties to MBC via Saturday Night's Main Event, the same can't be said for WCW, NWA, AWA, etc. Even if you're an eighties Rock & Wrestling fan who saw a lot of that stuff on NBC, WCW and the rest are far outside of that sphere, and their presence on Peacock is just aesthetically odd. But WWE owns it, so they can't just put old episodes of Nitro on whatever app TNT programs are shown on.
Finally, I mainly watch old stuff. It took me a little while to find WrestleMania! I didn't realize that each 'Mania would be categorized into "seasons." Again, that's another slap in the face to wrestlers, and finding content is just a burden.
Charles died on October 21st, 2022. Obviously, he wasn't able to watch WWE Network anymore. He had to go to Peacock to watch it. I never asked him, but I'm assuming that he probably shared a lot of the views I just expressed about wrestling and how WWE should be portrayed. He was a fan of WWE Network. I'm not surprised that he didn't have the heart to delete the app from the menu screen.
