Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Why I stopped watching WWE? Part 1

  • I must say that I have stop watched watching WWE.
  • Earlier during my childhood days ( early 90's) WWE was known as WWF and after Gulf War in 1991 newly we got Cable Tv in India and they began beaming foreign programs into our TV sets.
  • Among the programs we got was Ice hockey, American football, of course cricket and WWF or Wrestling.
  • There was also a channel TNT which used to broadcast Black and White Hollywood movies and that used to show TNT Nitro.
  • I for one was never interested in violence.
  • What interested me in those days were the movie Channels and Music TV (MTV).
  • Plus I felt that WWF was fake.
  • Certain stunts are not fake I do admit.
  • But the script was faked.
  • They followed a pattern so as to keep the audience engrossed.
  • Same thing is continuing till today.
  • Now let us come to current time.
  • I used to watch TV through Cable TV right through all the years (1991 till 2005).
  • Till 2005 when I fist got a dish antenna which beamed the Free to Air Doordarshan Channels.
  • Then again I had to dismantle the dish when I changed my address and cable Tv continued.
  • In 2007 I again fixed my Free to Air Dish. And I had both Cable and Free to Air Dish.
  • Slowly slowly what I found that number of variety got reduced.
  • DD i.e. Doordarshan remained Free to Air but many channels moved to Paid platform.
  • In 2008 when my Cable TV stopped BBC World I went for Dish TV which was Standard Definition.
  • At that time also I had both cable and Dish TV.
  • Then in 2011 I went for Cable TV once more when there was change in address.
  • I must say in cable TV we never get to see what we like.
  • We only watch what is shown.
  • In 2012 I took HD LED TV.
  • Since my Cable TV box was SD, I went for HD Videocon D2H.
  • Even then I never got to see what I like.
  • In 2013 I took a second connection. Videocon D2H always said that one wire can only support one box.
  • So I took Tata Sky which had common antenna in our building.
  • Subsequently Videcon D2H stopped completely which made me take a second Tata Sky connection.
  • Then I started watching the Sports channel and realise that WWE programs show themselves quite often on Tv and there is a pattern.
  • The programs were Raw, Smackdown, Superstars, Main Event, NXT and special events which happened once a month.
  • In other words I discovered WWE Universe.
  • And I was lost in it.
  • There was also TNA which used to be shown on Son Sports.
  • While WWE was being shown in Ten Sports.

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