WWE Pay-Per-View Buyrates, SmackDown/CW Network In The Press

By Chris Walters on February 10, 2006 at 2:56 PM EST

WWE has updated their pay-per-view buyrate numbers. January's New Year's Revolution current sits at about 300,00 buys. December 2005's Armageddon is around 290,000 while Survivor Series sits at 375,000 buys. Taboo Tuesday, which will become Cyber Sunday this year, pulled in about 220,000 buys.

Reader Chris Salcedo sent in the following:
I just received the February 6th edition of Television Week, and on the front cover, it has a picture of Batista and JBL wrestling at a PPV from last year. Below it, they have a story about the CW network titled, "Slamming for Time Slots." In it, the story talks about what's being picked up by CW, what's being dumped, and what's being moved to a new time slot. For the Friday slot, it mentions WWE SmackDown! will be on at its usual time. This is an excerpt from the article when discussing Friday nights:

"Once UPN's demographic outlier, the two-hour "WWE" has a dedicated audience that could be well served with promotion from a male-skewing Thursday lineup. The WB would lose its Friday night comedy block that includes newcomers "Living With Fran" and "Twins," veteran "What I Like About You," which would leave, and "Reba," which moves to Sunday."

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