What could HAVE helped? All episodes split up, but 30k isn't an absolute failure because come the RTWM next year they will at least upgrade by 10x, this is a perfect chance for WWE to perfect it, because the $10 a month when you get to January will be a serious deal all by itself. They should have a year contract for it, made in payments because who doesnt piss $10 (tgmi could pay the shit) and you're golden.
They should have a tv aspect, and a pc aspect. PC being more capable of searching and making requests, with a forum (there's an idea soli) for people to make WWE requests as well as WCW and ECW since they are owned by WWE. TV could be pretty simple, having a setup and daily rated shows. Say this week we have the best of WCW for 8 hours a day (like spike tv and others run cops/prison shows) and then next week is the best of ECW, Attitude era, rocknroll wrestling etc. They give you a week in advance they would own DVR hits.