This is a prime time with Sean Mooney production.

Because the event we're going to be talking about, Survivor Series 1987 had a lot going on with it.

If you go back in your time machine here, the WWF was in its initial really starting to climb as far as the in the broadcast industry and and uh becoming a

mainstream uh entertainment vehicle and uh the at that point in time not only was you know

they have the shows on television but the house shows were the big drive for income and with

WrestleMania that opened a whole new door.

And there was a few pay-per-view events, you know, WrestleMania 3.

And this pay-per-view event was also one of the first because up until then,

they'd done closed-circuit television.

Now, folks will remember closed-circuit television, closed circuit television, it was a private screening, basically.

You'd go to a movie theater or somewhere that would get this signal, and you would pay money, and you'd go.

Well, pay-per-view, you didn't even have to leave the house with cable.

And Vince McMahon saw the wonder of this and the chance for a great income from that.

Although it wasn't, you know, the first real pay-per-view event, and this kind of surprised me

doing the research on it, it happened in 1975, and it was a boxing match.

It was the thriller in Manila, if you remember, between

Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. It also appeared on, was transmitted on, on, on, HBO was also,

you know, one of the new cable channels out there. And, uh, that was really the kind of the birth

of all this as it started to go but

Vince McMahon certainly took it and ran with it and they were able to you know not

only make money from folks showing up to see the event but people were willing to

pay money to see it in their home.

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