Yes each of them could be offered a time slot on Vince's channel, but why accept the crumbs from someone elses plate when you can have your very own piece of the pie. Seperate all those wrestling federations are small in comparison, but combine them on to one network where, for just one example, each would take a portion of the revenue from advertising as opposed to getting nothing from that from just having a set time slot on Vince's channel.
I know I would watch a channel like this.
Because the crumbs from Vince's table will be bigger?
You don't get it. It's not about what YOU would watch. It's about what average people would watch. They KNOW the WWE Brand name. Whether you like it or not, when most people think of wrestling, they think of the WWE, not TNA, not ROH. In order to get a wrestling network off of the ground, you need to convince the cable providers to air it. The WWE has name brand recognition, TNA may have a small amount of name brand recognition, but I can guarantee you that most investors in a wrestling channel wouldn't have heard about the other companies at all. TNA just isn't big enough to be the marquee name in a collaborative effort to compete with the WWE Network. You have to think like a TV Executive, not just as a wrestling fan.
Just because you can sell two hours of programming a week to a second tier cable network doesn't mean you can carry an audience 24/7. Completely different animals. The combined name brand recognition of TNA, ROH, AJPW, AAA, and everyone else just isn't the same as that of the WWE.
I get that a lot of TNA fans think that TNA's product is vastly superior to the WWE's. I think your dead wrong, but this isn't about the product. It's about getting people to watch. Television is not about the quality of the show, it's about quantity of the viewers. There are lots of really well written TV shows that got cancelled due to low ratings, and a lot of really crappy TV shows that go on for years because for some reason or another, people watch anyway.
You think that there is this HUGE untapped market of potential wrestling viewers who would watch Japanese, Mexican and local indy feds that are 20 bucks away from bankruptcy and it simply isn't true. It's a niche market only. The amount of people that actually try to find these things online is very, very small. Most people simply don't give a damn. They might give it a try the first night...then when they get frustrated that they can't understand the Japanese or Mexican announcers, or get annoyed with the single camera setup of these indy feds (assuming they even have ONE TV camera at their disposal) that wrestle in front of 50 people in a high school gymnasium, they will change the channel because it looks like amateur hour.
Further, do you REALLY think that Vince McMahon didn't have his people do research on the potential impact of bringing in organizations from other countries, some of the indy leagues already? Do you really think he didn't do his homework before submitting his proposal to create a WWE Network to investors, to Comcast, to Dish Network, etc? Of course he did.
And like I said...we don't know that the WWE channel WON'T be broadcasting some of that stuff. There is still a lot about the WWE channel, what it will and won't be airing that is unknown to the general public.
You are just wishfully thinking. The entire concept, once you start digging and looking at the details, what would have to happen for it to succeed, etc, is simply ludicrous. We don't even know if the WWE Network will work or not, and you have a rag tag group of wrestling promotions trying to form an alliance to compete with it?
