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The WWE Network – A Potential Game Changer?

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World Wrestling Entertainment announced plans to launch a 24/7 linear streaming channel dedicated to their popular worldwide brand of sports entertainment, or as we tend to call it, professional wrestling.  The WWE Network goes live on February 24 immediately following their popular prime-time showcase, Monday Night RAW. In addition to the streaming channel, the WWE Network will have a large video-on-demand service where fans can access documentaries, original programming, classic matches, pay-per-views, and network programming from the WWE, World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) libraries. The network is promising at least 1500 hours of VOD programming at launch, which is quite impressive. The WWE Network will be accessible across all digital devices, including iOS and Android-powered devices, Roku, Amazon’s Kindle Fire, and gaming consoles using the WWE App. Monthly charges for the network (which will also include all 12 WWE Pay-Per-View events [WrestleMania XXX will be the first PPV shown on the WWE Network]) will be $9.95/month with a six-month commitment.  You could find out more about

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How Do You Solve A Problem Like G4?

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As a TechTV fan, I am all but contractually obliged to hate G4 and root for its failure and utter demise. Why shouldn’t I? When Comcast bought TechTV, instead of it being a solid merger of equals (which it wasn’t), the lesser-known G4 culture took over the more tech-savvy, nerd-friendly environment of TechTV. The show that was essentially the face of TechTV, The Screen Savers, was affected the most in the transition, eventually morphing into Attack of the Show. The show affected the least was X-Play, one of the two real reasons Comcast bought TechTV for in the first place (the other being the lucrative, plentiful channel space). By the end of 2005, the G4 virus had completely taken over the network, and all things TechTV was gone. They decided to go for that 18-34 male demographic that no other network caters to except for every five out of six television networks in the United States in 2005 and cut back on original fare for the remainder of the decade. In