Um, the only reason for the merging of talent and the new announcement of ECW to air on WWE.com on Wednesday's is because the sci-fi deal is not going to get renewed and until the WWE can find a new deal for ECW they need to make sure the brand is still watchable. So, people who have great internet access can watch it on WWE.com, and in the mean time ECW will piggy back on Smackdown as well so that the fans can still see there fav ECW stars on TV if they don't have net access. ECW isn't going away, as always your all reading too much into this. WWE will shop ECW around for a new TV deal. If they were smart they would try to see if they can fill an empty time slot on CW, since CW loves WWE and is happy with the product. Also CW would probably give them a 2 hour time slot for ECW as well, which since TNA fans believe that was the solution to all TNA's problems, it could potentially be for ECW as well...though I actually like ECW, and believe that the advantage to 2 hours would mean that casual fan would finally be able to perseve it as an equal brand to Raw & Smackdown.