Billy Corgan Says NWA Has Signed A TV Deal With A Top 20 Network

NWA Powerrr premiered on YouTube in October 2019, airing weekly on the platform. The show found a home on FITE TV as part of an NWA subscription service for a year in 2021, but returned to YouTube in 2022. 

NWA pay-per-view specials air on FITE. 

Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Billy Corgan says NWA has signed two network deals. 

“YouTube is a terrible partner for wrestling. I’m just going to say that flat out. Lately, because who knows how these AI systems work, they’ve been squeezing all the wrestling content creators. No one can figure it out, but everyone’s numbers are down. That’s across the board. No one knows what YouTube is doing, but it is mercurial. We can’t even put ads on YouTube because they keep labeling…any ad, even if it’s just Jim Mitchell saying, ‘Come watch Samhain on pay-per-view,’ it gets banned for being offensive. We can’t find anybody to talk to telling us why we can’t put an ad on there. Even when we’re trying to spend money to get people to watch our programming, we can’t. Five years ago, YouTube was a good place to start and it helped us build the brand. It started with the debut of Powerrr, which we just passed our four year anniversary, thanks to people like The Rock putting us over, it kind of put us on the map. It’s been an effective way. I can now say, for the first time, and I have to be a little vague because there are political aspects to this, but I can say that we have signed not just one, but two television details. The announcement as far as where and who will be coming soon. We finally, now, will be able to move off YouTube. Not exclusively, because we still want to be able to do stuff on YouTube, but we’ll be moving with a network partner. I have to be vague. I can’t say who, but I can say it’s a top 20 network. I’ve been working on this for over a year. Not just one, but two. Two totally different wrestling related products we’ll be offering. 2024 is looking very bright,” he said.

Corgan did not offer further comments on the deals, but says NWA will step their game up since more people will be looking at the numbers and once again thanked YouTube for getting them to this point. 

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