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unusual facts about Pay Per View



Belinda Laracuente

Faced with world champion Christy Martin at the Félix Trinidad-David Reid Pay Per View undercard, Laracuente lost a decision in eight rounds, in a bout that HBO Boxing commentator Jim Lampley said that he personally thought Laracuente should have won it by 78 to 74 on his unofficial score.

Diema

Diema Extra (Диема Екстра) was a paid channel, airing Pay Per View events mostly from English and Spanish Football Leagues.

Laura Serrano

Serrano was supposed to box on the Julio César Chávez-Miguel Ángel González Pay Per View event's undercard in Mexico City, until an ordinance from 1947 was found, forbidding women from boxing events in Mexico.


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1080p

However, satellite services (e.g., DirecTV, XstreamHD and Dish Network) utilize the 1080p/24-30 format with MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoding for pay-per-view movies that are downloaded in advance via satellite or on-demand via broadband.

2010–11 Vancouver Canucks season

The new partnership included 13 additional games, on top of the 45 on Rogers Sportsnet Pacific, to be shown thus eliminating Canucks TV Pay-Per-View.

Allstate Arena

On June 16, 2013, the Allstate Arena hosted to a new WWE pay-per-view event, Payback.

Barely Legal

ECW Barely Legal, a pay-per-view event promoted by Extreme Championship Wrestling in April 1997

Blood Stained Love Story

The song "Ladies and Gentlemen" was the official theme song for the WWE PPV WrestleMania 23.

Brian Griffin's House of Payne

In an improvement over the previous four episodes, the episode was viewed in 7.27 million homes in its original airing, according to Nielsen ratings, despite airing simultaneously with The Amazing Race on CBS, Celebrity Apprentice on NBC and WWE WrestleMania XXVI on pay-per-view.

Child pornography

According to Jim Gamble, CEO of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, around 50 per cent of sites showing children being abused are operated on a pay-per-view basis.

Days Are Forgotten

This remix served as the official theme to World Wrestling Entertainment's TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view.

El Torero

Torero made his first Pay-Per-View (PPV) appearance at AAA's annual Triplemanía show, Triplemanía II-B where he teamed with Giro and Colorado to defeat Fantasma de la Quebrada, Marabunta and Audillo.

Exit row

A few airlines have gone to branding exit row seats as a premium economy product - on Virgin America's A320, the exit rows (as well as bulkhead seats) are considered "Main Cabin Select" where meals, alcohol, pay-per-view movies and a higher baggage allowance are all included.

Florence Civic Center

It hosted the infamous eighth WWF In Your House pay-per-view in 1996, during which a storm knocked out the power and thus the broadcast signal during the event.

Fred Luter

During his streetpreaching days Luter observed a need to draw men, particularly fathers, into his evangelistic appeal by urging events which attract male interest, on one occasion, in 1981, hosting a gathering for a pay-per-view televised boxing match between Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard.

Fred Ottman

He made his pay-per-view debut at that November's Survivor Series, where he teamed with Hogan, The Big Boss Man and Hacksaw Jim Duggan to face the team of Earthquake, Dino Bravo, Haku and The Barbarian.

Hog Wild

Road Wild, a professional wrestling pay-per-view from World Championship Wrestling, previously called Hog Wild

In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede

This pay-per-view was awarded Best Major Show for 1997 by Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

In Your House 9: International Incident

In Your House 9: International Incident was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), that took place on July 21, 1996 at General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Ivelisse Vélez

Velez made an appearance at Family Wrestling Entertainment's pay-per-view Back 2 Brooklyn, as a special guest along with former WWE Diva Maryse.

Kristina Laum

According to the storyline, Raven used her to replace Beulah McGillicutty, his former girlfriend and valet, who had announced that she was pregnant with Tommy Dreamer's child on January 7 at ECW's House Party pay-per-view event.

KroniK

Upon joining together as a tag team, Kronik (originally spelled Kronic) assisted Vince Russo in his vision of a clean sweep for his New Blood alliance at the 2000 Spring Stampede pay-per-view.

Louisville Gardens

WWE also staged two pay-per-view events at Louisville Gardens: (In Your House 6 and In Your House 17: Ground Zero).

Luis Villanueva

Some of his accomplishments include leading Venevision International to become the first distributor of films originally produced in Spanish for the Hispanic Market via theatrical, pay-per-view, home video, cable TV and free TV.

Magnum Tokyo

The program came to a head when his interference backfired in a tag team match between The Dancing Fools and The Public Enemy at the 1998 "Road Wild" pay-per-view.

Martín Castillo

Castillo received some exposure in this fight, as it was the first televised bout on the Pay-Per-View (PPV) fight card featuring the first match between boxing superstars Érik Morales and Manny Pacquiao.

MITB

WWE Money in the Bank, a professional wrestling pay-per-view featuring the match type

Murder Music: A History of Black Metal

Murder Music: A History of Black Metal is a heavy metal music documentary aired on British pay-per-view channel Rockworld TV.

Profiles in Pain

Profiles in Pain was a professional wrestling internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event held by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) that took place on May 2, 1998 from the North Charleston Coliseum in North Charleston, SC.

Rockline

Notable non-musical guests include then Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton with running mate, then-United States Senator from Tennessee Al Gore during their presidential campaign in 1992; and on December 16, 1993 radio superstar Howard Stern, the latter of whom was promoting his New Year's Eve Pay-per-view special.

Ron Lipton

Ron Lipton Ron Lipton is a retired police officer and an internationally known boxing referee, having refereed many bouts on HBO, Pay-Per-View and world title bouts in the United States, Ireland and Italy, standing between some of the greatest boxers of his era, including Evander Holyfield, Roy Jones Jr., David Tua, Pernell Whitaker and Roberto Duran.

Serials crisis

Open access journals where the reader of a journal or the library at their institution does not need to pay a subscription or a pay per-view charge to read the articles published in that journal.

Sky Box Office

Sky Movies Box Office, BSkyB's Pay Per View (PPV) system available in the UK, previously known as Sky Box Office.

Steve Rucker

In 1997, he appeared on a Bee Gees concert at the MGM Grand Las Vegas which was shown on pay-per-view television, HBO, and was mastered as a live album.

TALC

Shaw PPV, a Canadian pay-per-view television network whose French language channels use the branding TALC

The Age of the Fall

At ROH's Take No Prisoners pay-per-view, Black pinned Delirious to win a Four Corner Survival match which also involved Go Shiozaki and Claudio Castagnoli.

The BroMans

On the Countdown to Bound for Glory Pre-show The BroMans (Jessie Godderz and Robbie E) with "Mr. Olympia" Phil Heath defeated Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez, Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels and Kazarian) and Eric Young and Joseph Park to earn a TNA World Tag Team Championship match on the Pay-per view, The Bro Mans defeated Storm and Gunner to win the TNA World Tag Team Championships.

Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock

The event sold out the MGM Grand Arena and sold 150,000 pay per view buys, a rate over three times larger than the previous Zuffa events.

TNA Asylum

After debuting TNA Impact! out of Soundstage 21 at Universal Studios Florida, TNA decided that they would eventually shut down their weekly pay per view operations in favor of switching to a monthly pay-per-view format.

UFC 12

After being removed from many pay per view carriers, and with mounting pressure from politicians such as Senator John McCain, the UFC had continuing troubles finding a venue, and a state, that would host UFC 12.

UFC 26

The event also marked the second UFC appearance of British fighter Ian Freeman, whose preliminary bout was shown on the live pay per view broadcast.

UFC 4

Play-by-play announcer Bruce Beck and color commentator Jeff Blatnick were paired together for the first time on the pay-per-view and became the regular commentary team on UFC broadcasts up to and including UFC 15.

UFC 9

Following the legal battle over UFC 9, Senator John McCain was successful in pulling UFC pay-per-view broadcasts from numerous cable systems, including TCI cable, which greatly hurt pay per view buy rates.

Viewer's Choice

In Demand, a US-based pay-per-view service formerly known as Viewer's Choice

Viewers Choice

Originally Viewer's Choice was the monopoly provider of pay-per-view service in Eastern Canada, while Western International Communications was granted similar rights for its Home Theatre service in Western Canada, mirroring the regions held by Astral and WIC for pay TV service (The Movie Network and Superchannel, respectively).

Although Viewers Choice (and pay-per-view services in general) continue to be a main provider of big-ticket live events, much of their movie content has been duplicated by video on demand (VOD) services operated by cable and IPTV companies (and as noted below, Viewers Choice is not currently available on any Canadian satellite provider).

WMXX

WrestleMania XX, the 20th professional wrestling WrestleMania pay-per-view by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)