This is ai

I believe him.

>>21253009
So why doesn't Tony just tell him like he tells him about the PPV numbers? Because that's who gives him the information

Does Dave not know that we have comparable simulcast numbers for much bigger entities like the NFL and the NBA and they don't even come close to 41.5%?

Reminder that in 2024, the SB simulcasted on Tubi as well. The Super Bowl did like 122M that year on TV.
Tubi ROUTINELY has a higher usage share monthly than HBO Max and it is fucking free.

So the SUPER BOWL, which aired on a FREE streaming service, that has a higher usage share than HBO Max did 15M on Tubi. That equals 12% of the the TV audience. To further point how stupid Dave's number is, that 15M represents 1/3rd of all streaming viewer for the Super Bowl that year. That means the total streaming numbers only captures 36% of the TV rating.
Dave is either a fucking idiot or a fucking liar, one or the other.

>>21253009
Didn't the guy who pushed these numbers, BJ Bethel, get fired for pushing fake news?

>>21253076
I wonder if Dave just chooses to ignore stuff like this and take what Tony and other pro-AEW people say for granted or if he's just delusional. Idk anythimg about Dave's background but I doubt he's able to do math like this. From what I've seen, much like his arguments, he has a conclusion and then uses math to somehow support it, rather than the other way around.

>>21253113
BJ was fired for fake news because it was the WRONG fake news. You gotta clear every post with Tony and/or Meltzer before posting. He failed that step and was fired.

>>21253009
Over an entire week? And worldwide? Maybe. Same day in the US? No fucking way. 900k tops on a good week.

>>21253076
NFL and NBA are same day events. You don't watch for the entertainment, you watch for the result and there's no point watching a catch-up if you've seen the result. There's entire sitcom storylines about this exact shit it's so prevalent.

>>21253914
>900k tops on a good week
Spots simulcasts average 5-15% of the cable number.
If AEW is averaging 700k viewers, they're doing 35k-105k on streaming and I'm going to go on with the low end of that range because HBO Max has very low monthly usage
>NFL and NBA are same day events
Dave is claiming the same day numbers of AEW are as high as 1.5M

>>21253947
>Spots simulcasts average 5-15% of the cable number.
>If AEW is averaging 700k viewers, they're doing 35k-105k on streaming and I'm going to go on with the low end of that range because HBO Max has very low monthly usage
Wrestling is entertainment, not sports. That's why AEW isn't on TNT sport.
>Dave is claiming the same day numbers of AEW are as high as 1.5M
Then Dave is a fucking moron.

AEW could barely get a milly 5 years ago when they got the hottest free agents and tons more people still had cable yet Dave thinks they get 50% more viewers now? It's time to put him in a nursing home. Brian knows this too. He is so over his dementia bullshit

>>21253983
>AEW could barely get a milly 5 years ago when they got the hottest free agents and tons more people still had cable yet Dave thinks they get 50% more viewers now?
That actually leads to a different question. If this is what Dave is saying, then who are viewers that are contributing this massive spike in viewership?

Are these old AEW fans who only stopped watching because they cut the cord? Because, if it is, that makes no sense because the weekly average at AEW's peak in 2022 was about 900k.
Are these new fans? If so, why haven't we seen any other metric to indicate growth in fans increase as well like audience?
Are these AEW fans who were only subscribed to cable to watch AEW and when AEW went to HBO Max, they cut the cord? That can't be because it's still higher than what AEW was before they ended up on HBO Max.
Are these passive viewers of HBO Max? It strains crudgility that AEW has like 500-800k passive viewers on the live stream because HBO max is routinely the least used streaming platform montly, getting about a 1.1% share of all streaming.

But Dave doesn't these very simple questions, Dave has an idea he wants the numbers to be like >>21253828 and works backwards to get it.

>>21253009
Is is genuine mental illness at this point