AAAUS: Not quite sure what’s going on here.
– Saturday’s afternoon airing and the east coast Sunday airing is shown as going only 1:30
– the overnight airing and the west coast Sunday airing is shown as going only 3:00
I presume the full scheduled show airs somewhere, but we may lose a week or get bumped back.
CAN52: Probably the AMex opener and Coliseo Main event. Sure getting a lot of the New New New New Infernales on the B-Shows.
FSE: Women’s trios, and a random group for the main event.
AAAMEX: The just compelted 05/12 taping.
CMLLMEX: Tiny Tecnicos vs Loco/Mexico/Nitro, Leyenda de Plata, Wagner/Atlantis.
Unless something unexpected happens, the Minoru Suzuki/Takayama trios match will not air anywhere. It’s in the dead spot.
Now you’ve jynxed it and the Arena Mex opener won’t air.:(
5/12? Did they skip a whole lot of weeks?
Er, got that backwards. 05/12 for Mexico.
That 1:30 slot for Lucha on Gala US is odd.
Fox Sports Espanol has Lucha listed at midnight through Memorial Day weekend. I hated it when FSE listed “Lucha Libre” generically in their press release and even in their TV Guide listings. It’s CMLL, and they know this, but continue to treat Lucha like second-class citizens.
Maybe CMLL will be coming back to GalaUS? :)
CMLL back in the US with 1:30 hour shows? Might be, I guess it would depend on the Perrito’s reality show being popular over there and people wanting to watch him… who knows, the show blew over here, no one really cares about it, save CMLL.
If this week is CMLL with 1:30 it’s only one week b/c the next week 5/27-28 is three hours on Galavision US. That’s why I said it’s “odd” not to get my hopes up.
Speaking about CMLL and Perro, Univision officially announced yesterday that they’ll carry his reality show for the fall season. So that will be a big boost for him.
I don’t get this Perro Reality show. Is it basically like that old US circus show with the stars from the 70’s?
Just wanted to run this by everyone:
How do you think CMLL and AAA would do in the US PPV market?
Now that I think about it, there was a short AAA show a few weeks back, which supposed to be 2 hours but was just like CMLL, ending earlier because of soccer. I assumed that in the US they would air it full, but now it seems it won’t be the case…
About the PPV… I think it would do proportionately better than what the PPV does here, but then, CMLL is not airing their main show over there, so I guess their PPVs wouldn’t work that much.
Ah, and about the reality show, what is the point on airing it not live, they make their money on fans calls, if it is not live, it would have not that and way less drama since the audience over there would now who won. (aguayo for sure, rest of the guys are a bunch of unknowns)
Univision will air Los Cinco Magnificos just like they are currently airing Bailando por la Boda de Mis Suenos. I know Josue wins, but no one else goes on the net to find out, so Univision does big ratings. And why is Liz Vega getting involved in Lucha?
My feeling about Lucha on PPV is that if junk like Japanese Hardcore can get a few PPV’s off the ground, a group like AAA with weekly TV seen in over 150,000 HH’s a week could do one too. Only problem is that whenever there is a PPV in Mexico, it’s kept a secret. You don’t see a promotional machine like you do in the US, and weekly TV does not turn into an infomercial like RAW does for WWE PPV’s. Last few CMLL PPV’s were poorly promoted. In the end, anything involving Televisa could end in disaster.
I think lucha ppv’s would do okay, heck, they have naked women’s wrestling, hardcore midgets, women’s extreme wrestling, none of whom have regular TV, and all have monthly ppv’s. And soon ROH also. I think lucha might do better than all of those.
I think a Lucha PPV with a strong main and promos during the weekly programming would be good for 10,000 based on what that Japanese Hardcore shit did.