https://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/480752/jamie-kellner
Sep 5, 2013 at 6:15am Nobody and Glitch
Jamie Kellner is a giant idiot who should have been fired from his job years ago. That isn't fan bias btw.
To cancel a show that was doing better ratings than everything else on their network is crazy. I've been looking for what replaced Nitro on TNT but cant find any information or how it did in ratings. But from what I have seen from other popular shows shows, they tend to do 1-2's. Nitro did 5's at one point and high 3's most of the time. Raw doesn't do hight 3's now days. So he lost ratings.
As for the money. Yes Nitro was in a hole. But that could have been fixed by introducing a budget. If they don't have access to millions of dollars, then Eric cant spend millions of dollars can he!? Yes WCW would become little better than an indy, but hey, at least it wouldn't loose money. The second factor was that Bishoff was trying to buy WCW and was offering $50 million. By cancelling the TV shows when he did, Kellner cost AOL/TimeWarner $50 million dollars. WCW had already lost the $60 million, so Kellner instead of coping the $10 million loss, ended up costing AOL/TW $110 million.
They do eventually sell WCW to WWF for 3 million, so Kellner looses 47 million in a bad business decision, all because he doesn't respect pro wrestling. If he had waited and cancelled WCW 1 year later, he would have been fine. It would have been Bishoff's and thus his problem.
But the biggest thing for me is his arrogance, to not like something is fine, but to discriminate and exclude it is stupidity. I don't like the show Glee...would I be right in cancelling it?? I also hate first person shooters. So I cancel MOH and Halo. How an I doing business wise?? Exactly.
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