Joe Galli Would Like To See NWA Powerrr Remain On YouTube For Accessibility Reasons
Every Tuesday, fans can enjoy NWA Powerrr on YouTube at 6:05 p.m. ET. Episodes remain available for those who may miss it live, allowing for easy access for fans from across the world. While many wrestling companies are looking for the next big television deal in the United States and internationally, a television deal can limit access to the product.
And that’s a strength of NWA Powerrr according to announcer Joe Galli.
“That is an excellent question,” said Galli when asked by Vulture Hound about where he sees NWA in five years. “You know, a lot of people talk about seeing us on a major cable broadcast at one of those, you know, alphabet soups, TNT, TBS, or whatever, seeing a move to one of those. Personally, I would love for us to stay on YouTube because it’s such a great way for people to enjoy our show internationally. All you fans over there in the United Kingdom, it’s very easy to watch over there. Even to use Canada as an example, there are a lot of fans in Canada that have a hard time watching All Elite Wrestling because of the cable station it’s on, and that’s not available north of the border. So with YouTube, it’s available pretty much everywhere, with very few exceptions across the planet. So I think we want to have the National Wrestling Alliance at the prominence to where it is recognised everywhere on the entire planet. I mean, there’s a reason why that globe is in the middle of the NWA World’s Heavyweight Championship, it’s so we have that global taste to it. And that’s why, Nick Aldis has gone and defended his championship on multiple continents, including over in China.”
While Galli might be comfortable on YouTube over the next five years, he does see the product outgrowing the current GPB Studios set-up, at least for certain events.
“I think we’re going to continue to expand, and I think in the next five years, you could probably expect us to do more large, high profile pay-per-view events that might be outside of the NWA arena, GPB studios. But I think we’re going to continue to grow and we’re going to continue to offer this product,” he said. “I hope that it’s available free to as many people as possible and I think another thing that you might notice is, you know, as we continue to do this and as it continues to be profitable, that catches the eye of a lot of other advertisers. Obviously, we have those great commercials. Yes. With Austin Idol, all those are very fun, all very fine commercials. But it would not surprise me if you also start seeing other types of commercials for major products like your Coke and Pepsi and Apple and all that other sort of stuff because we’re getting viewers and we’re getting enough eyeballs to where they know that they can make money if they advertise with us. So it would not surprise me in the least if in less than five years you start seeing that, then you know, the more revenue you generate, the more money everybody makes and the more we can offer to get, you know, top tier talent in our program. So it’s just the snowball effect. And I think we’re just going to keep on rolling.”
NWA will hold its next PPV event Hard Times on Friday, Jan. 24 from GPB Studios. You can find the full lineup for the event by clicking here.
Fightful will have live coverage of NWA Hard Times beginning at 7 p.m. ET.