The NWA will be on The Roku Channel

[C.S.]

Sorry for the repeat posts, gang. 1. We really need some mod presence here. 2. We really need this annoying apostrophe glitch to be fixed. 3. Hopefully someone will see and erase the other threads quickly.

Same timeslot as NXT

"The deal will see matches airing on The Roku Channel in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, starting on July 29.

The move will see NWA matches streaming for free every Tuesday at 8pm ET."

https://deadline.com/2025/06/billy-corgan-national-wrestling-alliance-roku-1236426337/ 

[flyonthewall2983]

Does Billy own much archival footage?

[C.S.]

33 minutes ago, flyonthewall2983 said:

Does Billy own much archival footage?

I assume he bought whatever Bruce Tharpe owned and posted to the NWA On Demand service or whatever it was called.

But I doubt Roku is interested in uploading any of that.

[strobogo]

Why the fuck would Roku be interested in uploading any Corgan NWA either tho

[C.S.]

1 hour ago, strobogo said:

Why the fuck would Roku be interested in uploading any Corgan NWA either tho

Cheap, easy, reliable programming with viewers that will come back week after week - something Roku doesn't have in any form or fashion right now. 

[JRH]

16 minutes ago, C.S. said:

Cheap, easy, reliable programming with viewers that will come back week after week - something Roku doesn't have in any form or fashion right now. 

Being on a free service also gives it an advantage over AEW (HBO Max) and RAW (Netflix).

[sek69]

Roku is one of the top FAST (free ad supported) streaming service, not in small part due to how it's preinstalled on nearly every TV sold at Walmart. It's not a billion dollar streaming deal, but they actually have some shows people watch. 

[flyonthewall2983]

1 hour ago, C.S. said:

Cheap, easy, reliable programming with viewers that will come back week after week - something Roku doesn't have in any form or fashion right now. 

It could possibly interest them to put up older stuff, if they catch on at least. That’s my hope anyway.

[strobogo]

2 hours ago, C.S. said:

Cheap, easy, reliable programming with viewers that will come back week after week - something Roku doesn't have in any form or fashion right now. 

What kind of fucking psycho would come back after watching a Corgan NWA show

[C.S.]

15 hours ago, strobogo said:

What kind of fucking psycho would come back after watching a Corgan NWA show

You're asking the wrong guy. I loved NWA Powerrr in the early days, but it was the biggest victim of the pandemic, and I haven't watched it in years. 

Regardless, my point stands. Wrestling is something that will attract weekly viewers. The Roku Channel doesn't have anything else like that right now.

[El-P]

15 hours ago, strobogo said:

What kind of fucking psycho would come back after watching a Corgan NWA show

You don't wanna watch Thom Latimer legendary World Title reign ? Who doesn't want to do that ? The funny thing is that it's probably a hundred times better than the two previous champ Corgan had too (and yeah, this is the biggest backhanded compliment ever).

[Blehschmidt]

Did you ever imagine there would come a time when you could say things like "Man, I miss Dan Severns 1400 day reign with the NWA Title" or "Whatever happened to respectable NWA Champions like The Colorado Kid" and while those things wouldn't actually be true, the NWA would somehow actually be shittier than what it was then.

[The Thread Killer]

8 hours ago, Blehschmidt said:

Did you ever imagine there would come a time when you could say things like "Man, I miss Dan Severns 1400 day reign with the NWA Title" or "Whatever happened to respectable NWA Champions like The Colorado Kid" and while those things wouldn't actually be true, the NWA would somehow actually be shittier than what it was then.

I honestly thought they were really onto something when Power first debuted on YouTube. But then a whole bunch of things converged all at once, to pretty much ruin it.

Firstly the booking was terrible. I will never forget that first run of shows leading up to their first pay-per-view Into The Fire was great, it looked like they were going to go with Tim Storm vs Nick Aldis for the World Championship when all of a sudden they pivoted at the last minute and gave the shot to James Storm with no buildup at all.

Then there was the whole fiasco with Cornette and the fried chicken joke. And then right on the heels of that, Dave Lagana gets fired because of the whole “Speaking Out” movement.

Then the pandemic hits, and they lose Eli Drake, Eddie Kingston, Ricky Starks, Thunder Rosa, Nick Aldis…and end up replacing them with people like Tyrus and EC3.

On top of that, they have been bouncing from platform to platform, they go from YouTube to Triller back to YouTube to Twitter.

The “Lightning One” era actually started out well, but it ended up becoming a total shit show. I wouldn’t be able to pick 99% of their current roster out of a police lineup.