WWE to release weekly rating figures...

[Guest wrestlingbs]

Credit WWE.com, Business Wire, Ashish at 411mania.com, and 1wrestling.com:

 

It appears that WrestleMania ended up doing well below 600,000 buys. WWE was expecting 850,000 buys for the show. The drastic drop has caused the company to redo their entire yearly budget.

 

WWE Judgment Day did around 225,000 buys, while Bad Blood did around 300,000 buys. Both of those numbers are far below what PPV in the same month have done in the last two years.

 

Credit: 1wrestling.com

 

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2003--World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is now providing trend information on television ratings, pay-per-view buys and live event attendance in the Investor Relations section of its corporate website. The information will be updated weekly. To link directly to this new information, click here http://corporate.wwe.com/invest/index.html

 

"Television ratings, pay-per-view buys and live event attendance are key indicators of our company's performance, and I am pleased to announce that we are now providing this information on our corporate website on a weekly basis," said Phil Livingston, CFO. "It is important to share trends in these areas with our shareholders and members of the investment community,"

 

Livingston also announced the WWE has hired Michele Goldstein as Vice President, Planning and Investor Relations to lead the company's efforts in these areas. Ms. Goldstein comes to WWE from Viacom, where she worked in corporate finance for 12 years, advancing to Vice President, Financial Planning in (1998). Ms. Goldstein, who also logged experience with Ernst and Young, is a Certified Public Accountant.

 

"Michele Goldstein is a tremendous addition to our team. Her experience within the media and entertainment industries will be a great asset," said Livingston.

 

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE - News) is an integrated media and entertainment company headquartered in Stamford, Conn., with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto and London. Additional information on the company can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com. For additional information on WrestleMania XX, to be broadcast live on pay-per-view from Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 14, 2004, go to wrestlemania.wwe.com. Information on television ratings and community activities can be found at parents.wwe.com.

[Guest myburninghammer]

Well, this is nice...I couldn't understand where everyone was getting the idea that JD did like 400,000 buys.

[Guest JMA]

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE - News) is an integrated media and entertainment company headquartered in Stamford, Conn.

Can't they just call it a wrestling company? Geez.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Because they do music and movies too.

 

... those are some pretty half-assed graphs they got there.

[Guest teke184]

I don't think that Goldberg or Cena can be blamed for the shitty Backlash buyrate now since Judgment Day seems to have sunk even lower...

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Cena couldn't, but Goldberg has to bear some of the responsibility given the amount of money they're paying him.

[Guest teke184]

Contrast Goldberg's expected drawing power with the WWE's supposed booking. As many people have said, the WWE took a can't-miss match and made people not want to see it by the time Backlash rolled around because they wanted to get cute in booking Goldberg.

 

I'm not a Goldberg fan by any means but, with what they're paying him, they should have done a LOT better job of booking and promoting him.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Oh I agree, certainly mistreatment and miscalculation by the braintrusts over at Titan, but Goldberg has so shoulder some-of-the-blame for the unimpressive buyrate given he was hired and paid a lot of money _for_ that very purpose and put against the companies to star. He didn't deliver.