Isn’t this TV deal supposed to be figured out by the end of the year??

[Official]

What’s gonna happen?!? I want everything on Fight Pass

 

[KarateYeah]

We still got 4 days!

 

[TIMELESS TRUTH]

What a freakin super-noob!

 

[FrankieNYC]

No. There's been tons of other great threads about the ongoing negotiations (search for threads started by @FrankieNYC )

Thank you brotha

To answer his query, UFC wanted to have the decision made by years end & announce it in Q1 of 2018.
I don't think they are there yet, unless NBC's bid came in & they loved it.
Last thing reported was Fox upped the bid slightly (over $200m per) & NBC was going to bid
Also they might be waiting on TW/ATT merger to go through, because they are expected to bid if it does!

 

[Jawth]

I think they stay with Fox, maybe add a streaming partner like Netflix or Prime. Really just getting other offers to get Fox to bid higher imo.

 

[Official]

Gonna be weird if no FOX

 

[FrankieNYC]

Gonna be weird if no FOX

If you want to check out something I did about 9 weeks ago on the subject - HERE

I update in the post above the movement since

HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

[RiseAboveHat]

Everything being on fight pass would be my only incentive to get FightPass

 

[FrankieNYC]

I want everything on Fight Pass

Everything being on fight pass would be my only incentive to get FightPass

Not a reality for 2019

From - https://mma-today.com/going-ufc-tv-deal-negotiations-fans-concerned

FNYC:
I think that will be tough to pull off and make it worthwhile. Let’s do some math. Let’s use a $400m yearly gross figure for domestic content as an example. That is a $250m TV deal and a 5m PPV purchase year approximately. That is $33.33 million a month. At $10 a month, that is 3.3 million subscribers, at $20 a month, that is $1.65m subscribers.

WWE has topped out at about 1.5m paid subscribers (well short of their initial goals of over 2m) and WWE charges $9.99 and includes 20 PPV quality events a year now. If UFC gets a TV deal with Fox/NBC, that network would want higher profile events. So, I think we will see less PPV events in 2019, but I cannot see them going completely off network TV. The guaranteed money is still there for live sports.

 

[Fahcough]

They need to consolidate to 1 fuggin channel or find a partner with enough balls to put these no name sporting events on FS2 when it runs over. That baseball game that went 18 innings ran 90 minutes over, DVR doesn't know shit sport is on. Last week a Big10? basketball game was on then 30 minutes of celebrations, 45 min of the 218 replay backed up.

Jumping from FX, Fox, FS1, FS2, FXX . Ignorant level in promotions.

 

[Maripucci]

All Ppv’s should have a 4-5 title defended. the rest should be on free tv. 1 ppv max a month.

 

[Andy Anderson]

What’s gonna happen?!? I want everything on Fight Pass

Isn't McGregor supposed to defend his UFC gifted belf? Just because they will doesn't mean it will happen

 

[Official]

All Ppv’s should have a 4-5 title defended. the rest should be on free tv. 1 ppv max a month.

Every month you think the UFC should put on a PPV with 4-5 title defenses on them? Am I misreading this?

 

[Official]

Isn't McGregor supposed to defend his UFC gifted belf? Just because they will doesn't mean it will happen

Oooo you got a double yellow!!!

 

[Kymbo]

If you want to check out something I did about 9 weeks ago on the subject - HERE

I update in the post above the movement since

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Thanks for posting, interesting to read.

 

[FrankieNYC]

Thanks for posting, interesting to read.

You're welcome
Thank you for checking it out

 

[VitorBelfoTRT]

I think they'll work something out. It's not like their gonna go let themselves not be on TV anymore. I just hope i'm subscribed to whatever channel they're gonna get. Having Fight Nights on fight pass would be convenient when I'm on the go and can't catch a TV. Perhaps they'll add that on in the future.

 

[FrankieNYC]

I think they'll work something out. It's not like their gonna go let themselves not be on TV anymore. I just hope i'm subscribed to whatever channel they're gonna get. Having Fight Nights on fight pass would be convenient when I'm on the go and can't catch a TV. Perhaps they'll add that on in the future.

Of course
Fox already offered an increase
So at worst, they will be back on Fox

 

[Meathead Jock]

WWE has topped out at about 1.5m paid subscribers (well short of their initial goals of over 2m) and WWE charges $9.99 and includes 20 PPV quality events a year now.

How would you rate the WWE Network move? I know it was considered a huge failure at first. Is that still the popular opinion that they would have been better off without making the change?

I'm still under the impression that it will work out for them long term because in a couple of years you will so so many companies with their own iPPV app that it will be hard to get new customers. But the WWE will have beat the market to the punch and will be able to hold onto its customers that others will struggle to add.

That is also me just talking out of my ass though with the opinion.

 

[FrankieNYC]

How would you rate the WWE Network move? I know it was considered a huge failure at first. Is that still the popular opinion that they would have been better off without making the change?

I'm still under the impression that it will work out for them long term because in a couple of years you will so so many companies with their own iPPV app that it will be hard to get new customers. But the WWE will have beat the market to the punch and will be able to hold onto its customers that others will struggle to add.

That is also me just talking out of my ass though with the opinion.

Its two-sided
The biggest mistake I (& others) think they made was including Mania in it
That was the huge 500k-1.2m PPV they can count on.
Vince told stockholders they would roll out at about 2m by end of first year (they are still 500k short) & when he realized the launch was going to look like a bomb, he panicked & added Mania.

They yet to recoup that loss

They are at a little over 1m domestic (subs) & that is way short of goals.

WWE-Network is profitable, but not as big as they hoped & it killed DVD & PPV.
Now both DVD & PPV were heading downward anyway though.

I think the biggest mistake they have is not promoting the library every Mon/Tuesday
They only promote the new stuff
If they should clips of a classic Flair, Dusty, Bruno match on Raw & said you can watch it in full on WWE-Network, I think it would be a great tool for subs.

but, Vince hates "wrestling" & does not want to have new era WWE fans associating "sports Entertainment" with "Wrestling"