More annoying to me is them putting ads in the middle of matches, cut that shit out & let us have the match from start to finish without interruptions.
I dont get the hate for 3 hour raw i always torrent it since tv in my country aint got raw and the torrent releases are very good quality and have most adds cut most of the time and 1 episode is only 2 hours and a few minutes -_-
Vince needs more time to torture us with the crappy RAWs and less time to reward us with some actual quality wrestling on the PPVs. Sports Entertainment baby.
This isn't true in the modern era. I made a thread about this actually, as there's an obvious disconnect between Vince talking about sports entertainment (which is what we need) and the fact that Raw is actually a wrestling show. There's always 2 if not 3 20 minute matches, several title matches and so on. What let's Raw down is that these matches need to be ppv and that we need more wildy violent, crazy, funny back stage segments/brawls etc.
Because they need to pay advertisers. Advertisers pay a lot of money for ad spots. But 3 hrs is too much. It needs to go back to 2 hrs. HHH even said that on The Austin Podcast. if it was up to him he would go back to 2 hrs. He feels in that hour, its more filler stuff. With 2 hrs it would give more time for a more designated show.
In theory, Raw gives more time to hype the matches and feature the entire roster, where PPVs are the cream of the crop and only the best make it on the show. Taking into account advertising on Raw that doesn't occur on a PPV, I'd say the actual production is longer on a PPV than on Raw.
Does anyone know how long a Raw is without adverts compared to a PPV?? I'd guess the PPV is longer.
In theory, Raw gives more time to hype the matches and feature the entire roster, where PPVs are the cream of the crop and only the best make it on the show.
Cut the adverts out and it's actually 30 minutes shorter. A PPV is almost 3 hours solid. Some RAWs are just 2 hours and 10 minutes.
3 hours is too much time to sit down and watch one show straight. Think of 3 hour films, there's probably just a couple that warrant the full time. At least with a movie you can pause it, watch the second half later. With "most" TV you can't do that. It's ignorant to expect people to sit and watch the show for that long in one sitting. Meaning a lot of people are channel surfing or the show is in the background playing second fiddle to whatever else they are doing. When it was 2 hours it was okay. The change is great for advertising dollars but terrible for everyone else - fans, wrestlers and the writers. Think how difficult it is to write a 3 hour movie/ show that doesn't drag and is supposed to keep a viewer engaged entirely throughout? Almost impossible.
RAW should have stayed at 2 hrs., making it 3 hrs. really hurts the product.
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