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I wanted to see if anyone has managed to build up enough resources (moolah) to start their own broadcaster. Did you give yourself a "loan" or earn it the hard way? What's the name of it? Did you make a PPV, Commercial, Free-To-Air, or Subscription network? What did you set your initial coverage size to be and in what areas? Have you seen any big gains using your own broadcaster? Did you give your developmental promotion a TV show if you have one?

 

I've been building my company up and we have $33 million. At the very least I want to start the network with Huge coverage in the USA and Medium in Canada. That'd be $44.5 million to create. I was thinking of going with a Subscription network. I believe I would still show my monthly events for each brand on PPV or switch off every month with one brand getting the PPV and the other being shown on the network.

 

I have two developmental promotions and I'm going to start a third brand (minor as opposed to the two major currently) when we're able to start our own network. I'd like to be able to give the developmental promotions a TV show, as well as promote our third brand as a step in between developmental and the main roster.

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<p>I will be, but am not there yet and am actually switching to a financial strategy that will delay this by limiting monthly profits.</p><p> </p><p>

Since you appear to be looking at it.... is there a post you know of that says what you need to do to be profitable at each size? I think I read once that any region <75% would lose money, but would think that would depend on size as you would expect that for a tiny broadcaster.</p>

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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="liontamer" data-cite="liontamer" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I will be, but am not there yet and am actually switching to a financial strategy that will delay this by limiting monthly profits.<p> </p><p> Since you appear to be looking at it.... is there a post you know of that says what you need to do to be profitable at each size? I think I read once that any region <75% would lose money, but would think that would depend on size as you would expect that for a tiny broadcaster.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> As far as I know from the screen to create your own broadcaster, it says anything above 71 popularity in a region for a subscription network will create a profit. Anything below that will create a loss. We're about 5pts away from that in all areas of Canada. No other region comes close, so those would be the two I focus on when creating the network.</p>
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I'm at about 15 mil as SWF after Supreme Challenge 2016 in my game and debating it. I know it's cheaper to start your network bigger than it is to raise the levels later, so I'm tempted to wait until my broadcasting deals are closer to ending as well.
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<p>I asked in the small questions thread but no one responded so will ask here. </p><p> </p><p>

is it ultimately possible to have my own network replace all tv deals I have? I'm aiming to get huge coverage in the US with my network. Once I reach that is it worth just showing all my shows on there and ditching any other US based broadcast deals? Or is there additional benefits to have tv carriers as well?</p>

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<p>Glad someone started this thread as I was just looking at this on my game.</p><p> </p><p>

Does anyone know what kind of profits you get for this? At the moment my shows are on reverie, so a very big subscription network as it is. Each month I make just under 6 million on TV revenue. If I start my own network will I be looking at bigger or smaller profits? Because on create broadcaster it says I'd make 150k on subscriptions, so would I be spending over 100 million just to lose around 6 million a month too? If so that seems...pointless. </p><p> </p><p>

I also run two PPVs a month, with huge coverage USA and Canada, very small in Europe and small in mexico...I make around 6.5 million. Again, would I make more than that if I create my own PPV network?</p><p> </p><p>

If I create a commercial network would I make more or less than I would subscription?</p><p> </p><p>

Can I approach companies to be on my networks? </p><p> </p><p>

Can I create new companies in "investments" and put them on my network?</p><p> </p><p>

I tried looking on here and in game help files for answers so I may be missing something.</p><p> </p><p>

Just for added info I'm popularity "A" in USA, B+ canada and UK, C+ Europe, C Mexico so built up decent world wide popularity.</p><p> </p><p>

thank you!</p>

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<p>Alright I guess I'll add my 2 cents in here with everyone else.</p><p> </p><p>

First off having your own network is a splendid idea however we must all keep in mind that we are only allowed to have one network at a time. With this is mind it is very important that you choose which type of network it will be very carefully. If you'd like to have a free to air network you must keep in mind that you will lose money for the running of said network never to gain a penny from it. The good thing is that you have a wider audience to reach because it is essential free for all to consume/watch. Subscription based networks are a great source of income but that depends entirely on your popularity and since 71 pop in whatever region your in is the minimum then you really need to be careful. Losing a national battle or a string of bad shows can sap your companies pop and if you fall below 71 you'd be taking a massive financial blow. I advise only national companies and up to use such a network. Then you have the one I am most fond of which is commercial. This is the best network in my opinion because the advertising revenue from companies having commercials and what have you on your network allows for decent income at least theoretically. This is also a great network to have if you have a development fed to give tv time to. Lastly, a ppv network which I find the most useless in terms of benefits for a development fed. I guess because in my head who in the hell will pay to see unknowns every month wrestle for titles that have no value in their eyes. That's all I can say about it really. I could go on but I won't.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Also, why get a subscription based network when you can get on reverie and take advantage of that huge coverage they have while also having your own commercial broadcaster for tv and such. (IDK, ignore me)</p>

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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="DevinTEW13" data-cite="DevinTEW13" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Alright I guess I'll add my 2 cents in here with everyone else.<p> </p><p> First off having your own network is a splendid idea however we must all keep in mind that we are only allowed to have one network at a time. With this is mind it is very important that you choose which type of network it will be very carefully. If you'd like to have a free to air network you must keep in mind that you will lose money for the running of said network never to gain a penny from it. The good thing is that you have a wider audience to reach because it is essential free for all to consume/watch. Subscription based networks are a great source of income but that depends entirely on your popularity and since 71 pop in whatever region your in is the minimum then you really need to be careful. Losing a national battle or a string of bad shows can sap your companies pop and if you fall below 71 you'd be taking a massive financial blow. I advise only national companies and up to use such a network. Then you have the one I am most fond of which is commercial. This is the best network in my opinion because the advertising revenue from companies having commercials and what have you on your network allows for decent income at least theoretically. This is also a great network to have if you have a development fed to give tv time to. Lastly, a ppv network which I find the most useless in terms of benefits for a development fed. I guess because in my head who in the hell will pay to see unknowns every month wrestle for titles that have no value in their eyes. That's all I can say about it really. I could go on but I won't.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Also, why get a subscription based network when you can get on reverie and take advantage of that huge coverage they have while also having your own commercial broadcaster for tv and such. (IDK, ignore me)</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I didn't realise you could only own one!</p><p> </p><p> So commercial brings in a lot of money? More than subscription or not?</p><p> </p><p> I was thinking creating a PPV broadcaster as at the moment I struggle to get on any other decent international PPV broadcasters, but then like you say that wouldn't help development companies as much. I like the idea of creating a couple of smaller companies and getting them on a worldwide broadcaster.</p><p> </p><p> Hmmm decisions!!</p>
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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="lois lily" data-cite="lois lily" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I asked in the small questions thread but no one responded so will ask here. <p> </p><p> is it ultimately possible to have my own network replace all tv deals I have? I'm aiming to get huge coverage in the US with my network. Once I reach that is it worth just showing all my shows on there and ditching any other US based broadcast deals? Or is there additional benefits to have tv carriers as well?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Yes. I bought one in my TCW game and after my TV/PPV deals ran out I just left them on my own network as it was making me more money and gaining me more pop</p>
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Your own broadcaster is by far the best investment you can make, particularly if you go with a commercial broadcaster. Subscription is OK, but as others have pointed out, it's only valid in regions you're already killing it in. There are plenty of good PPV carriers you can make deals with for your events, and free-to-air just seems pointless outside of RP scenarios.

 

I like the fire up a commercial broadcaster as soon as I can. It's cheaper to stat it with higher coverage, but you can always add to it later, and once you're cult/national+ with a commercial station money stops being an issue. In my current game there's a global fed with 2 A shows, 2 B shows, and a development show, and they're currently worth hundreds of billions.

 

I would say that's the only downside to a commercial broadcaster - it turns things in to easy mode pretty quick. CPU-controlled feds will never go out of business because they will always have that tv cash, that can be annoying too.

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I didn't realise you could only own one!

 

So commercial brings in a lot of money? More than subscription or not?

 

I was thinking creating a PPV broadcaster as at the moment I struggle to get on any other decent international PPV broadcasters, but then like you say that wouldn't help development companies as much. I like the idea of creating a couple of smaller companies and getting them on a worldwide broadcaster.

 

Hmmm decisions!!

 

From everything I've read in the game itself, Subscription is based purely on how big your company is. You need to be popular and producing good shows to get subscribers to pay for content every month. It can also lead to more financial gains than Commerical, but slightly less popularity growth for the company.

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Glad someone started this thread as I was just looking at this on my game.

 

Does anyone know what kind of profits you get for this? At the moment my shows are on reverie, so a very big subscription network as it is. Each month I make just under 6 million on TV revenue. If I start my own network will I be looking at bigger or smaller profits? Because on create broadcaster it says I'd make 150k on subscriptions, so would I be spending over 100 million just to lose around 6 million a month too? If so that seems...pointless.

 

I also run two PPVs a month, with huge coverage USA and Canada, very small in Europe and small in mexico...I make around 6.5 million. Again, would I make more than that if I create my own PPV network?

 

If I create a commercial network would I make more or less than I would subscription?

 

Can I approach companies to be on my networks?

 

Can I create new companies in "investments" and put them on my network?

 

I tried looking on here and in game help files for answers so I may be missing something.

 

Just for added info I'm popularity "A" in USA, B+ canada and UK, C+ Europe, C Mexico so built up decent world wide popularity.

 

thank you!

 

 

1-As far as I can tell,you can get more money with your Subscription network than with the default ones,but you need to be huge.

 

2-I believe yes,you would.You can also expand it to International Waters whenever you want/have money,so it's an Upside.

 

3-More,but again,it's all about your size.

 

4-It would be fun but no,you can't.

 

5-You mean the Dev Companies?Yes,just click on "Child Companies" and then "View Own Broadcaster" in your office to negotiate - Your broadcaster can't reject,so if you want you can literally create 7 weekly TV shows and put them all there.

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<p>Thought of creating a thread like this a couple of times. Glad someone did. </p><p> </p><p>

The way I see (and not saying this is 100% right) is that the "right" type of broadcaster depends on what your priority is. Free to Air is great for building popularity but entirely sacrifices making money. A PPV broadcaster is the opposite, though less extreme - most profitable, but the least helpful with building company popularity. As Logan says, Subscription is a bit more profitable (if you are already a popular company) but a bit less effective at building popularity. Commercial, that's flipped. It makes sense if you think about it - with subscription and especially with PPV, you are asking fans to directly pay for content. Not exactly the easiest way to build new fans. </p><p> </p><p>

I'm debating which way to go in my game I'm about to start. Done a ton of planning for it as I was working on the mod, which is a tweaked version of Genadi's 2K1 WCW Lives mod. WCW start at Cult and its a relatively slow grind back to national. They have starting TV and PPV deals with pretty small networks. I like start several of the smallest possible size developmental companies, which doesn't put too much of a dent in WCW's starting money ($5 million). With the industry booming, making money is pretty easy. I definitely want to open a broadcaster - either a subscription or a commercial one. It probably won't be that long into the game before I could open a US-only tiny broadcaster. But that would only help for my child promotions and maybe for a B show - although I can get a B show on a bigger network than that already. I could wait until I can open a broadcaster big enough that its worth putting an A show or my events on, but that will take way longer to save up. </p><p> </p><p>

Also, I mentioned this before in another thread or two, but I did some testing with putting child promotions on a promotion-owned broadcaster. Same mod, so the promotions started at the smallest size (actually 0 popularity) and the network was tiny as well, with US only coverage. The prospects I gave the child companies were outstanding prospects (the ROH generation, for the most part) but they had zero popularity to start. By the time the AI called them up, some guys were into C and C+ popularity nationally. So they could step right into the midcard of a national company with no build required.</p>

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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Liger!Liger!" data-cite="Liger!Liger!" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>1-As far as I can tell,you can get more money with your Subscription network than with the default ones,but you need to be huge.<p> </p><p> 2-I believe yes,you would.You can also expand it to International Waters whenever you want/have money,so it's an Upside.</p><p> </p><p> 3-More,but again,it's all about your size.</p><p> </p><p> 4-It would be fun but no,you can't.</p><p> </p><p> 5-You mean the Dev Companies?Yes,just click on "Child Companies" and then "View Own Broadcaster" in your office to negotiate - Your broadcaster can't reject,so if you want you can literally create 7 weekly TV shows and put them all there.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Thanks for the help, you too LoganRodzen, I think I am going to go with a subscription network when I have the money, I'm making around £9 million a month at the moment and have just under £100 million in bank. I want it to be enormous world wide to make it worth doing, and I feel better about doing PPV's on a subscription broadcaster rather than normal commercial one lol.</p>
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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="kito333" data-cite="kito333" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Is there a limit to how many shows you can have on your own broadcaster?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> No.</p>
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<p>The difference between Subscription and the rest is, you get a direct profit based the popularity of your promotion. You get any TV Revenue from Subscription Networks as well. Commercial gets TV Revenue, PPV gets PPV Revenue, and FTA generates no revenue in-of-itself. </p><p> </p><p>

Depending on what you are doing, the two best choices are likely Commercial or Subscription, but I'm partial to Subscription because if you own the network, you get the money from the TV Revenue and the Subscriptions. With Commercial, you are relying only TV Revenue.</p>

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<p>SOTBPW just opened their own Network on Saturday, Week 4, March 2024 in my current save (that prompted me to make this thread in the first place). They went with a Commercial-model, Big in the USA / Canada, Enormous in Mexico, and Medium throughout the rest of the world. This is the first time I've seen a promotion create a network during a save game. Curious if the AI is on to something with going the Commercial-route though.</p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m521/Logan_Rodzen/sotbpwnetwork_zpsfthg26uk.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Bigpapa42" data-cite="Bigpapa42" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Also, I mentioned this before in another thread or two, but I did some testing with putting child promotions on a promotion-owned broadcaster. Same mod, so the promotions started at the smallest size (actually 0 popularity) and the network was tiny as well, with US only coverage. The prospects I gave the child companies were outstanding prospects (the ROH generation, for the most part) but they had zero popularity to start. By the time the AI called them up, some guys were into C and C+ popularity nationally. So they could step right into the midcard of a national company with no build required.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That's what I was hoping for. That makes the reward of having your own network truly worth it. Those workers will be asking for wage increases shortly after being called back up though! <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>
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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="LoganRodzen" data-cite="LoganRodzen" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Those workers will be asking for wage increases shortly after being called back up though! <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote>Eh, even with a Commercial Broadcaster, entire revenue you get from TV is yours to keep. If you negotiate smartly with your workers, you'll probably end up with the better bargain.
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<p>I did a simple lookup (no controls or anything), and here's what I did. Let's set the initial coverage everywhere to "Enormous", and assume you have enough cash to pay for the flat fees. Also, the company has 100% overness in the everywhere. Here's what the "Create your Own Broadcaster" screen told me: </p><p> </p><p>

FTA: Costs $45,000 per month</p><p>

Commercial and PPV: Costs $72,000 per month</p><p>

Subscription: $522,000 (From subscriptions)</p><p> </p><p>

With Subscription, you won't have to rely solely on TV or PPV Revenue. Those are monthly figures, meaning if you multiply by 12 for a year, comes to $6,264,000. And that's not including what you get from TV Revenue for Subscription TV.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know how to adjust the risk levels of your own broadcaster? Just created one and it's set at medium, one of the reasons I chose to create one is so that I could have high risk matches without the network whining.</p><p> </p><p>

EDIT: Never mind, used the in game editor, I just thought there would be a way of doing it from the office.</p>

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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="ampulator" data-cite="ampulator" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I did a simple lookup (no controls or anything), and here's what I did. Let's set the initial coverage everywhere to "Enormous", and assume you have enough cash to pay for the flat fees. Also, the company has 100% overness in the everywhere. Here's what the "Create your Own Broadcaster" screen told me: <p> </p><p> FTA: Costs $45,000 per month</p><p> Commercial and PPV: Costs $72,000 per month</p><p> Subscription: $522,000 (From subscriptions)</p><p> </p><p> With Subscription, you won't have to rely solely on TV or PPV Revenue. Those are monthly figures, meaning if you multiply by 12 for a year, comes to $6,264,000. And that's not including what you get from TV Revenue for Subscription TV.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Subscription is the route I'm going. I just need to build up some more $moolah$ before I start it up. I want to have a decent amount of coverage if I'm going to spend big money.</p>
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<p>Is there any benefit to running your monthly events on Subscription like WWE instead of PPV except for role-play purposes? </p><p> </p><p>

I am currently playing as TCW with a brand split and I do have two monthly shows most of the months.</p>

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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Gtact420" data-cite="Gtact420" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42328" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Is there any benefit to running your monthly events on Subscription like WWE instead of PPV except for role-play purposes? <p> </p><p> I am currently playing as TCW with a brand split and I do have two monthly shows most of the months.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I ended up creating an Enormous network throughout the entire world. I've ran my weekly shows on the subscription network I own, along with a slew of developmental companies I've given TV and Event slots. I still keep my PPV contracts and run my monthly events on PPV though. I think you get more from running the PPV than you would from the income on your own network (unless your network is a PPV-model).</p>
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