Strictly Business #14: The CONSTRUCTION of a Wrestling TV Show

On this SPECIAL LIVE edition of Strictly Business. Eric & Jon deconstruct RAW and Dynamite just to put it back together again for YOUR INSIGHT. Special thanks to this week's sponsors! Stamps.com- Get a 4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale at https://www.stamps.com/BISCHOFF. Jimmy's Seafood-Free 2-day nationwide shipping on orders over $125 (excluding steamed crabs and fresh items) use the promo code: WRESTLEBIZ FOLLOW ALL OF OUR SOCIAL MEDIA at https://83weekslinks.com/ Stop throwing your money on rent! Get into a house with NO MONEY DOWN and roughly the same monthly payment at SaveWithConrad.com Get early, ad-free access to more than a dozen of your favorite wrestling podcasts, starting at just $9 over on AdFreeShows.com. That's less than 15 cents an episode each month! You can also listen to them directly through Apple Podcasts or your other regular podcast apps! AdFreeShows.com also has thousands of hours worth of bonus content including popular series like Title Chase, Eric Fires Back, Conversations with Conrad, Mike Chioda's Mailbag and many more! Plus, live, interactive virtual chats with your favorite podcasts hosts and wrestling legends. All that and much more! Sign up today at AdFreeShows.com! If your business targets 25-54 year old men, there's no better place to advertise than right here with us on Strictly Business. You've heard us do ads for some of the same companies for years...why? Because it works! And with our super-targeted audience, there's very little waste. Go to AdvertiseWithEric.com now and find out more about advertising with Strictly Business. Get all of your Strictly Business merchandise at https://boxofgimmicks.com/collections/83-weeks 0:09 START 2:30 Tom D Episode 3:00 Today's Topic: The CONSTRUCTION of a Wrestling TV Show 3:45 WHAT are the building blocks of a great wrestling TV Show? 6:20 HOW do you STAGGER a Wrestling show? 9:00 HOW do you keep an audience now vs the 90s? 11:30 can the A-Story be "Too Much?" 14:30 the pacing of RAW 02/13 16:15 the VALUE of a recap on TV 18:40 the 02/03 Smackdown segment by segment 22:17 02/08 Dynamite Segment by Segment 27:00 LAST NIGHT'S AEW Dynamite 29:30 Can you imagine Succession being structured like this? 32:00 The failure of the 3 man announce booth 36:05 DEFENSE of Excaliber on commentary 39:16 BREAK Jimmys Seafood 42:50 The Narrative urgency on WWE's programming 48:00 The CROSSOVER 51:46 GROWTH 52:16 LAST NGIHT'S Dynamite starting with a tag team match 55:30 MJF vs Bryan Danielson 57:38 BREAK STAMPS.com 1:01:05 Closing Dynamite with the Women 1:04:00 Does AEW NOT need to grow? 1:06:16 Wardlow dropped the ball 1:14:45 Does AEW need to grow? Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/4975053643186176 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices