WWE SEC filing notes: Executive compensation, temporary name for merged company

Here are notes from WWE’s SEC filing filed on Friday afternoon. As part of their acquisition by Endeavor, the company will merge with the UFC to form a new public company. In their SEC filing, the company was referred to as “New Whale Inc.”. However, it was noted in the filing that the name is …

Matt Hardy: ‘Logan Paul Working WWE Money In The Bank Match Is Good For Business’

Logan Paul will be part of the Men’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match, where he will compete against Shinsuke Nakamura, Ricochet, LA Knight, Santos Escobar, Butch, and Damian Priest in the match.   Matt Hardy discussed the decision to have Paul on his “The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy” podcast. Click Here: Memphis Depay …

SmackDown ratings down big following WWE Draft

Friday's episode of SmackDown (the go-home show for Backlash) averaged 2.059 million viewers on Fox, down 16.7 percent from the previous week's WWE Draft episode. It's the lowest viewership for a Fox airing of the show since August 26 of last year. Click Here: Custom stamp die mold and Product SmackDown topped all of network …

Backstage Notes on Vince McMahon and WWE Creative, McMahon’s Influence to Grow?

In what has become the norm as of late, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon reportedly had his “fingerprints” all over Monday’s Money In the Bank go-home edition of WWE RAW, as he did with recent RAW and SmackDown episodes since WrestleMania 39. Vince himself has recently stated that he would have at least some input into …

Mark Levinson No.36 D/A converter

To echo Audio Cheapskate Sam Tellig, who was in turn paraphrasing Thomas R. Marshall, what the world needs is a great $299 CD player. Certainly there’s no shortage of expensive units vying for your attention—most of them consisting of separate transports and D/A converters. Sam, of course, has often advised against spending big for CD …

Charley Hansen: The Wizard of Boulder

Twenty-three years ago, in 1993, Charles Hansen cofounded Ayre Acoustics, Inc., in Boulder, Colorado. On Ayre’s website, Hansen is named as Research Director for Ayre, and it seems an apt description. Along with experimenting in and developing audio-electronics hardware and software, Hansen has strongly hewn to certain design principles, among them fully balanced operation, an …