ROH to air nationally on COMET

[Stopspot]

Ring of Honor to air nationally on COMET starting December 2nd
#WatchROH every Wednesday at MIDNIGHT EST/11pm CST on COMET

(BALTIMORE, MD) – Ring of Honor (“ROH”) is proud to announce that beginning December 2nd, ROH will air its weekly television program nationally on the COMET television channel. Fans will be able to #WatchROH every Wednesday night at midnight for the latest Ring of Honor action.

“Ring of Honor has been enjoying tremendous growth and expansion across the broadcast space, including new local TV deals in strategic markets, and even internationally with L'Equipe 21 in France,” said Ring of Honor COO, Joe Koff. “As we continue to push for greater domestic and international distribution, Ring of Honor truly showcases itself as world-class wrestling. Having Ring of Honor on COMET, in addition to the availability in Sinclair markets and independent agreements, means fans across the United States can continue to enjoy ROH television weekly.”

Ring of Honor’s weekly episodes recently enjoyed great success on Destination America, peaking at 227,000 viewers on a single television airing. ROH’s 26-week deal signed in May 2015 with Destination America is set to expire, which will see ROH’s final episode air on the channel on November 25th, 2015.

Sinclair Television Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) (“Sinclair”), and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (“MGM”), recently announced that COMET, the first-ever 24 hour/7 day per week science fiction multi-channel network, which will feature more than 1,500 hours of premium MGM content, would premiere in over 60% of the country and over 65 million homes on October 31st of this year. The network will debut in all top markets including New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA; Seattle, WA; Denver, CO; St. Louis, MO; San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA; Washington D.C.; Boston, MA; Pittsburgh, PA and Houston, TX. In addition to the Sinclair owned television stations, COMET will also launch on a number of Tribune and Titan stations.

Fans can also watch Ring of Honor content on http://rohwrestling.com. To find out where Ring of Honor Wrestling airs in your area click here. Fans can also follow Ring of Honor’s social media channels for even more content and news, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

So ROH are moving off of Destination America in December, to the recently launched/launching COMET network. Which will air nationally and in all the big US markets. Difference between COMET and DA is that ROH are guaranteed to be on COMET since it is owned and run by Sinclair broadcasting, the same company that owns ROH.

 

[Roadster]

I think I actually have that channel. Ah hell yeah.

 

[Prince Bálor]

Awesome!

 

[Rogue]

Assuming TNA will get the same treatment, minus the national deal ofc.

 

[Snowman1]

It's weird. Many people who actually pay for cable don't get Comet, but on the over the air digital TV it's right there. Wow.
Check to make sure you can't just do something like that if you don't find it.

Anyway it's a great deal. Heard the Destination America deal was very lucrative for the station, so a little surprised ROH couldn't land a better deal, but w/e. Upwards and onwards!

 

[Stopspot]

It's weird. Many people who actually pay for cable don't get Comet, but on the over the air digital TV it's right there. Wow.
Check to make sure you can't just do something like that if you don't find it.

Anyway it's a great deal. Heard the Destination America deal was very lucrative for the station, so a little surprised ROH couldn't land a better deal, but w/e. Upwards and onwards!

Comet as a station is like 2 months old or something like that. So it not being on all the cable stations is not that surprising. But from what I understand the long term plan is to make it a full on cable station.

As for DA: The guy who brought in both ROH and TNA got let go, and the new head of programming didn't like wrestling. A perk for ROH being on Comet is that Comet is 50% owned by the company that owns ROH. So they are guaranteed TV time.