Overnight Smackdown rating, WOW Magazine dead, WWFE/DirecTV, more Submitted by William Martinez on Friday, October 19, 2001 at 5:40 PM EST
Last night's episode of WWF Smackdown! scored a 4.5 overnight rating. Look for the final number later today.
According to Kappa Publishing, the company that bought the rights to WOW Magazine, the magazine is officially dead.
It is being rumored that the reason negotiations broke off between WWFE and DirecTV as far as airing No Mercy on the provider is that the sides were 5% apart of the splitting of the show's revenue.
Smackdown was preempted in Detroit due to a Red Wings hockey game. It will air on Sunday at noon instead.
Spike Dudley will be taking Chris Benoit's place tonight at Spooky World in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
Credit: 1wrestling.com
Trish Stratus has won the 2001 Internet Babe of the Year tournament by defeating Lita 55% to 45% in the finals. Trish will be rewarded with her own website.
Credit: WWF.com
Kurt Angle, Steve Austin, Booker T, The Undertaker, Debra, Bradshaw and the McMahon family represented the WWF by visiting the World Trade Center site last Sunday.
Credit: Cody Monk at DallasNews.com
According to the latest issue of Stuff Magazine, Smackdown was responsible for 11% of sex, cursing and violence on television in 1999.
