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WCW as a serious competitor.

Overall the number one factor in judging a company?s success in this industry is

revenue. The WWF and its Compitition are the most competitive when it comes to the

Neilson Ratings wars, and the battle for television advertisers. At any respected wrestling

website, the Neilson ratings for each WWF program is broken down for fans and investors.

For example, when the WWF and WCW went head to head on Monday Nights, websites

would break the Neilson Ratings down by 15 minute intervals, in order to see which

performers scored big with TV audiences. The competition became almost absurd. The

intensity of the competition has died down since WCW bowed out, and moved their

programming away from the Monday Night 9pm to 11pm eastern spot, but ratings are still

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posted all around the Internet. The success of the wrestling industry is also judged on the

success of merchandise sales. This is also a hot competition among the performers due to the

fact that royalties are distributed to performers for sales of products with their likenesses.

Also the Pay Per View buyrates and revenue from the audience profits have been used to

judge the success of the companies in this industry.

The global market has had a distinct effect on the industry. The WWF sends its

programming to over 50 countries world wide. They hold a large percentage of their live

shows in Canada. They have held two exclusive Pay Per Views in the United Kingdom (their

strongest overseas market). The WWF recently has gained popularity in Japan. Japan was

also witness to a strong wrestling boom in the 1980?s with two very popular companies, New

Japan Pro Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling. The Japanese culture, differs in regards to

wrestling, as opposed to North America. A handful of performers in Japan, from the 1980?s,

were actually elected to the equilivalent to the United States Senate, in Japan. Today, the

Japanese wrestling boom has died down but remains steady, and is a very attractive market

for the WWF to reach in the future.

As far as employment in this industry, the available jobs are as broad as the products

themselves. The most difficult employment opportunity to obtain is that of a performer.

There are hundreds of ?wrestling schools? across the country loaded with hopeful performers