Marketing
Bulletin for June 10th
MMA
Oh, I'm really late in posting this:
Fuji TV splits with Pride FC
taken from www.fightoption.com
Mainichi Shimbun in Japan reports that Fuji TV has cancelled PRIDE from their network. The contract is immediately cancelled. Fuji TV’s PR department in the article is quoted as saying that PRIDE breached the contract with Fuji TV (the yakuza scandal would be the likely guess — as Shukan Gendai noted last week), but they cannot say directly what it is. (For a refresher course on the yakuza scandal, use this link).
This Yomiuri Hochi report states that Fuji TV’s PR department claimed that PRIDE committed an “improper event” and that after consulting with their lawyers, they annuled the contract with DSE. Both the Nikkei & Kyodo news wires have articles on the story as well. The Yomiuri article mentions the past arrests of three yakuza men related to Seiya Kawamata, and the Nikkei article mentions in passing that “a weekly magazine” (Shukan Gendai) had an article series about the alleged yakuza influence in PRIDE.
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In addition to Fuji TV canceling their contract with PRIDE, Yomiuri Hochi (via Yahoo Japan) reports that the network has also issued an order stating that any PRIDE fighters or people associated with PRIDE cannot appear on any Fuji TV shows. This includes variety shows, sports shows, and other programming.
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At the following press conference, DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara vociferously defended his company and denied all allegations of ties to the yakuza.
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This Yomiuri Hochi report states that Fuji TV’s PR department claimed that PRIDE committed an “improper event” and that after consulting with their lawyers, they annuled the contract with DSE. Both the Nikkei & Kyodo news wires have articles on the story as well. The Yomiuri article mentions the past arrests of three yakuza men related to Seiya Kawamata, and the Nikkei article mentions in passing that “a weekly magazine” (Shukan Gendai) had an article series about the alleged yakuza influence in PRIDE.
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In addition to Fuji TV canceling their contract with PRIDE, Yomiuri Hochi (via Yahoo Japan) reports that the network has also issued an order stating that any PRIDE fighters or people associated with PRIDE cannot appear on any Fuji TV shows. This includes variety shows, sports shows, and other programming.
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At the following press conference, DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara vociferously defended his company and denied all allegations of ties to the yakuza.
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hmmm...
It's clearly that Pride FC/DSE are in big troubles considering that there aren't so many TV-stations in Japan capable of broadcasting their shows on PPV, both - in Japan and abroad, specially in such a short notice - cause the 2nd round of the OWGP will happen in less than a month period.
Btw. PPVs are probably the most important financial source of Pride FC wealth and greatness.
And this cancellation, if you read it carefully, means that Mirko Cro Cop Filipović (like any other rRide FC fighter) is also banned from Fuji TV.
Post je objavljen 10.06.2006. u 03:10 sati.