WWE 24/7 management team announced

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Source: Business Wire

 

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Announces Management Team for WWE 24/7

 

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2004--Tom Barreca, Senior Vice President, WWE Enterprises, today announced further additions to the management team for WWE 24/7.

 

Steven Lazas is Director, Broadcast Operations whose responsibilities include digitizing and maintaining WWE's extensive professional wrestling archive which contains more than 75,000 hours of original programming inclusive of 25,000 hours of first-run content making it the largest of its kind in the world. He also is in charge of Master Control, Transmission, Scheduling, and the VOD operations staff and equipment required for delivery of VOD/SVOD programming and metadata. Prior to joining WWE's Television Division in September 1999, Lazas served as Broadcast Operations Supervisor at SkyView World Media Group in Fort Lee, N.J. He was employed as a researcher and subsequently Manager of the Film Library at The Image Bank in New York City from 1996 to 1998, antecedent to which he worked in the Registrar's Department of the Museum of Television & Radio.

 

Steven Finkelstein is Producer for WWE 24/7. He is currently working to program monthly schedules, produce shows for WWE 24/7, and develop new content. For the past two years, Finkelstein was Producer, WWE Home Video, supervising production of WWE Home Video projects for both VHS and DVD. He developed new titles and led all aspects of production including script writing, interviews, field shoots, studio production and editing for some of WWE's most popular video titles. Before joining WWE in September 1997, Finkelstein had worked for NBC Sports and the NBC Olympics.

 

Shannon Skemp is Director, Business Operations and Development. She is responsible for the implementation and operating portion of WWE 24/7, including managing the financials, resources and vendors. Previously, she was Director, Digital Media Business Development at WWE, in which she developed and managed new digital opportunities. Prior to joining WWE in September 2000, Skemp was Director of New Media Strategy & Product Development for Discovery Communications working on interactive television and broadband projects. Skemp also worked for the Advanced Television Technology Center where she served as project manager for the ATSC International HDTV demonstration team in Australia, China and Mexico and participated in multiple ATSC committees focused on the implementation of the ATSC Digital Television Standard.

 

Jill Andrews is Director, Affiliate Marketing and is responsible for developing marketing, advertising and promotions for WWE 24/7. Prior to joining WWE, Andrews directed affiliate marketing efforts at Comedy Central for six years where she was named Director, Affiliate Marketing in 2000. Before Comedy Central, Andrews was part of the marketing team that launched The History Channel. She also coordinated marketing and promotions for both The History Channel and A&E Television, and was in the account management group at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising in New York City.

 

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) 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. WWE 24/7 is a subscription video on demand service being made available through cable and satellite television providers and leveraging WWE's 75,000-hour library, the largest of its kind in the world, featuring the leading wrestling and other sports entertainment brands and programming. More information can be found at www.wwe24-7.com.

 

75,000 hours.

 

Yowza.

[spman 0]

Wow, it would take about eight and a half years non-stop to watch all of the footage WWE currently owns the rights to.

[The Mandarin 0]

I'd be willing to have "All Hail McMahon" tattooed to my forehead for just 24 hours in the WWE video vault.

[Gert T 0]

Since it's going to be an IN Demand channel, how many hours of footage will they make available per month. Hopefully it's better than Comedy Central's IN Demand shitty 4 minute snippets.

[spman 0]

Since it's going to be an IN Demand channel, how many hours of footage will they make available per month. Hopefully it's better than Comedy Central's IN Demand shitty 4 minute snippets.

According to Meltzer, it's going to start out with 20 hours of programming per month presented in a best of series, so say September would be BEst of Hulk Hogan October would be Best of Andre the Giant, etc.

[Placebo Effect 0]

October would be Best of Andre the Giant, etc.

EGADS... NO!

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

I'm still not sure if this is something you can only see on WWE.com, or an actually PPV channel on digital cable. I hope the latter because my computer is slow as fucking hell.

[Guest Anglesault]

I'm a sucker for old Andre.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

I'm not getting too excited about this.

 

20 hours a week, it claims. "With a majority" being WWF footage from the 70's to today.

 

I seriously doubt you will "save from having to buy a DVD".

 

I'm guessing we'll get a bunch of RAW/Smackdown! episodes from the previous month.

 

One old PPV (which could be cool, depending if they want to push the Attitude crap (with a blurry logo, tho?) or the old-school WWE...

 

Old Coliseum's on Hulk, Macho, etc.

 

It's not "the wrestling channel"...

[Jobber of the Week 0]

They don't have to worry about the logo as long as this doesn't go overseas.

 

cable and satellite television providers

 

Hooray, there holds out hope for a broadcast varient (regular TV channel, not like Video On Demand) after all.

 

And to the poster above, INDemand is a PPV provider for the big 5 cable providers. On Demand (VOD) is a technology.