Zach Arnold reporting at Fightopinion.com
http://www.fightopinion.com/2008/12/17/daily-sports-n*ppon-tv-will-discontinue-noah-tv-show-in-march/
Daily Sports: n*ppon TV will discontinue NOAH TV show in March
By Zach Arnold | December 17, 2008
The newspaper reports the horrible news for Japanâs top pro-wrestling company. The article discusses how Yomiuri TV, which is N-TVâs Kansai-based branch (Osaka/Kobe), discontinued NOAH programming at the end of September. The paper claims that wrestlers and NOAH employees are being told about N-TV possibly pulling the plug on the companyâs TV deal, which would all but sabotage the companyâs current structure.
Itâs a big blow to the wrestling industry in Japan which has been struggling to get out of MMAâs shadow. Itâs not a good sign for non-boxing fight programming in general in the country. Wrestling is significantly cheaper to produce than MMA or boxing, and if the networks arenât going to support wrestlingâ¦
