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Daily Sports: Nippon TV will discontinue NOAH TV show in March
By Zach Arnold | December 17, 2008
The newspaper reports the horrible news for Japan’s top pro-wrestling company. The article discusses how Yomiuri TV, which is N-TV’s 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 company’s TV deal, which would all but sabotage the company’s current structure.
It’s a big blow to the wrestling industry in Japan which has been struggling to get out of MMA’s shadow. It’s 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 aren’t going to support wrestling…
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