GCW promoter Brett Lauderdale has confirmed that an announcement regarding GCW streaming will be made by November 1st.
Lauderdale made the announcement on The Business of Business podcast.
“So first and foremost, there’s gonna be an announcement coming between now and November 1st, the future of GCW’s streaming and where you can watch and how you can watch GCW events. It’s gonna be an announcement that fans are going to be very happy about, it’s gonna be something that people have basically been asking for and it’s gonna be something that’s gonna make it a lot easier for GCW fans not to just watch GCW but to watch every show. So, I’m happy and excited to be able to make that announcement and to make GCW more accessible. I’m not gonna tell you what it is because I’m not allowed to until the announcement is made but I will tell you a little bit about the process because this has been an ongoing process for over a year now, and we’ve had so many options on the table. We’ve explored everything from following models that are already in place for individual streaming networks to creating our own from scratch and this includes I did have meetings with literal developers, multiple, in different places.
Talking to people who have helped build networks for other companies outside of wrestling. Just hearing how they build these and put these togethers and hearing how much work and how much it actually costs to build these things which I learned they’re actually very expensive. It’s not as simple as, you know, just creating a website and uploading a file of a wrestling show. Actually, there’s a lot more that goes into it… we’ve looked at every option, we’ve weighed every option, we’ve looked at the numbers of everything on all those options and what those numbers would mean and what they could mean before coming to our conclusion and ultimately, I think the route we’re taking is the one that makes the most sense for us and will be the easiest transition for our fans. So, I am, again, I’m very excited for this and I think it’s great for the fans and I also think it’s great for GCW and if I was not sure this was gonna be great for GCW, I would not doing be doing it because this is a game changer in how people will view GCW and how it will be streamed and it’s a big difference in going from a literal every show is a pay-per-view model to what we’re gonna be doing so, without the circumstances in place, I wouldn’t be doing this and we’re very fortunate. This is a great opportunity for GCW and we’ll see. I’ll be able to talk more about it very soon and I’ll be happy to come talk about it once the announcement is made.”
He would later confirm that he was approached by Pluto TV about moving the content to their platform, but Brett expressed his opinion that it was a bad idea.
You can listen to the complete interview below:
Listen to “Episode 100: Brett Lauderdale of Game Changer Wrestling” on Spreaker.
(H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions)
