The Monday Night Wars - Ep 2 - The Rise of the nWo
Added 2024-08-27 03:01:01 +0000 UTCWatch: https://streamable.com/6muf62
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Oh yeah that was one of the first few watchalongs. He also also the Fingerpoke of Doom which I assume they’ll show next episode.
Big Ell
2024-11-25 19:29:14 +0000 UTCNielsen would send out questionnaires to a random sample of people in the mail and ask them to track what they watched on TV for a week or so, then mail it back, then converted that to the ratings. So a score of 2.5 meant that 2.5% of that random sample watched a program.
prototype27
2024-08-31 09:55:37 +0000 UTCIt is a WWE doc so they’re always skewed and they always bend the truth to some degree. Like the Ruthless Aggression doc series where they claim the company name was changed to freshen things up when in reality they had to change because they lost a court battle to the World Wildlife Fund.
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-08-31 09:19:07 +0000 UTCIt’s hilarious to me that Nash and Hall got new contracts because the dumbass executives thought they were going back to the WWF.
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-08-31 09:17:45 +0000 UTCI know I'm a few days late but fun fact, Fake Diesel is Kane
Matthew Harvey
2024-08-30 23:59:21 +0000 UTCThe ratings that show up on the screen are Nielsen ratings. They are attached to every tv set and the channels that people watch. The reason the numbers look low are because that is the percentage of households watching that program. 3.7% of people watching tv were watching WCW that particular time slot
Bobthekow
2024-08-29 23:38:29 +0000 UTCOne thing that the documentary kinda glosses over is that WCW had been moderately ahead and honestly a much better show for several years by the time the NWO was formed. The NWO was basically what caused WCW's short lasting dominance as the clear #1 prompotion
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2024-08-29 21:24:30 +0000 UTCOne thing worth remembering about this series is that it kind of understates quite long period when WCW was way better than WWE. Both in terms of WCW being good and in terms of WWE being very bad. Not saying that to discredit it, because it's a fun series.
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2024-08-29 20:52:25 +0000 UTCRude response. It’s not a technicality. Totally unnecessary. A 1.0 rating does not equate to 1 million viewers.
CG
2024-08-29 03:57:18 +0000 UTCAs a kid i started watching wrestling in the late 90s early 2000s. I have heard about the monday night wars, but didn't know all this history and detail! Thanks for covering this docu-series! its been very educational! I look forward to the future episodes!
Courtney コートニー
2024-08-28 02:30:15 +0000 UTCBiggest heel turn of all time. Went on international news! I actually prefer WCW back in that era to WWF. I was privileged enough that we had a sattelite dish, so up until TNT started coding, we could watch. Just not PPV's. Used to listen to PPV's but the image was green and moving around. Swedish tv stopped airing wcw and wrestling altogether in early 1996. It would be 8 years until they started airing pro wrestling again.
Jennifer Lindgren
2024-08-27 20:26:58 +0000 UTCBasically 1.0% of people watching doesn't mean 1 million people watched the show. Hope that helps tk no drama :) doesn't really matter
Diruroru
2024-08-27 17:33:14 +0000 UTCWow. Thanks Vince.
Chad
2024-08-27 11:35:52 +0000 UTCIt’s still the biggest heel turn of all time. The only thing that would rival it is Cena.
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-08-27 09:00:37 +0000 UTCHow come it’s only 5 minutes? Nevermind the full thing is an hour. Two Sweet!
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-08-27 08:58:13 +0000 UTCThe idea of Bloodline Cole is now in my head and it is so very cursed.
Wade Kruse
2024-08-27 07:08:47 +0000 UTCGreat analogy lol
Dport
2024-08-27 06:40:03 +0000 UTCI think the idea of adding Eric Bischoff to the NWO makes some sense. Like, the idea of this invading force having a man on the inside with executive power is a logical storytelling move. But I can’t help but agree it feels lame. He’s just got this dorky energy to him. It’s like…Michael Cole joining the Bloodline.
Wade Kruse
2024-08-27 06:38:48 +0000 UTCThe Undertaker did wrestle in WCW as Mean Mark Callous. But that was long before the NWO he's been with WWE since 1990. You also saw Rey Mysterio in WCW before this you watched him vs Eddie Guerrero at Halloween Havoc
Drew Or Die
2024-08-27 05:56:44 +0000 UTCI dont know what the hell this means but I know when the ratings come out and lets say AEW Dynamite does a 1.0 rating thats a million views but im sure you will be right there typing away saying well technically........
Tk Banks
2024-08-27 05:06:36 +0000 UTCNot related to this video but congrats to smackdown 25th year anniversary 💯💯🔥🔥
Phillyman!!
2024-08-27 04:56:19 +0000 UTCI think the numbers mean the percentage of people who watched the program so a 2.5 would mean 2.5 percent of all people that had cable watched the show . Keep in mind thats not 2.5 percent of who was watching tv that night its 2.5 percent of the entirety of people that had access to cable tv whether they were watching that night or not. Not exactly sure how they gather that whether its a smaller pool that they use calculations to expand or what.
Nicholas Kramer
2024-08-27 04:28:31 +0000 UTCNot quite accurate. The viewership numbers are different from the rating... from Google - Nielsen calculates the percentage of their panel that watched each given program and reports that data as a number; if a program gets a reported 9.6 Nielsen rating, that means 9.6% of the panel watched that program; thus Nielsen estimates that 9.6% of American households watched the program. - millions were watching though yeah
Diruroru
2024-08-27 04:25:18 +0000 UTCIt can’t be overstated how huge Hogan’s heel turn was at the time. He was the red and yellow superhero for well over a decade at that point. Top guys just did not change their characters that much back then.
Ryan Redd
2024-08-27 04:23:08 +0000 UTCYeah. Kane had a few awful characters before finally being Kane. They also briefly showed one of his others, Isaac Yankem D.D.S., the dentist with the bad teeth lol
VegasViking
2024-08-27 04:11:02 +0000 UTC😲 really??
Tallywags
2024-08-27 04:09:10 +0000 UTCNo waaaaaayyyy!!! I hear it now!! I knew it sounded familiar but couldn't tell who it was. I thought it was the Arby's commercial guy lol
Tallywags
2024-08-27 04:00:49 +0000 UTCFake Diesel was Kane btw
VegasViking
2024-08-27 04:00:34 +0000 UTCI FUCKING KNEW IT
Dport
2024-08-27 03:58:32 +0000 UTCThe ratings are Neilsen viewers ratings. The higher the rating, the more people tuned in
VegasViking
2024-08-27 03:55:58 +0000 UTCThe ratings is viewership so a when you see 3.0 thats 3 million people watched. Today Raw gets about 1.4-1.7 million viewership and Smackdown gets around 2.0 mil
Tk Banks
2024-08-27 03:47:20 +0000 UTCNarrator is also captain/ admiral anderson from mass effect :)
Diruroru
2024-08-27 03:46:09 +0000 UTCIt has audio, I realize it's muted about a minute or two into the show and start it over.
Dport
2024-08-27 03:15:01 +0000 UTCCool that you're looking at documentaries as well as classic matches. There is one video that I'd like to recommend to you both called Villains in Wrestling: Making People Hate You by Super Eyepatch Wolf. It's on YouTube and it's a great about the heels in wrestling, I think you'll really like it
Christopher Lovejoy
2024-08-27 03:09:39 +0000 UTCThese are so great. Thanks Josh and Tally
VegasViking
2024-08-27 03:07:14 +0000 UTC
