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Anyone remember the "Billionaire Ted's Board Room" segments from 1996? I'm watching some old episodes of RAW from that time period and these have been on every week so far.
The segments are pretty corny, mocking Ted, Hogan, Randy Savage, etc. with lookalikes/"impersonators".
An example, one segment had "Ted" (always referred to as "Billionaire Ted") in a press conference. Some of the questions the reporters were asking him were, and I'm paraphrasing here:
- "Billionaire Ted, is it true that even though you offer double the content of the WWF, you're purposely undercutting their advertising rates?"
- "Billionaire Ted, you own your own networks, so why didn't you put your show on at a different day of the week or timeslot? Aren't you purposely trying to run the WWF out of business?"
And so on. Kind of funny, the segments actually sort of make the WWF look like babies who don't like competition, to me at least.
Also at the end of one of the episodes of RAW Vince talked about an ad that the WWF was putting in some large newspapers (some of whom rejected the ad) warning Ted's stockholders about something. Couldn't read what the ad said though.
The segments are pretty corny, mocking Ted, Hogan, Randy Savage, etc. with lookalikes/"impersonators".
An example, one segment had "Ted" (always referred to as "Billionaire Ted") in a press conference. Some of the questions the reporters were asking him were, and I'm paraphrasing here:
- "Billionaire Ted, is it true that even though you offer double the content of the WWF, you're purposely undercutting their advertising rates?"
- "Billionaire Ted, you own your own networks, so why didn't you put your show on at a different day of the week or timeslot? Aren't you purposely trying to run the WWF out of business?"
And so on. Kind of funny, the segments actually sort of make the WWF look like babies who don't like competition, to me at least.
Also at the end of one of the episodes of RAW Vince talked about an ad that the WWF was putting in some large newspapers (some of whom rejected the ad) warning Ted's stockholders about something. Couldn't read what the ad said though.