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Hassman makes first comments in response to Jarrretts lawsuit

Aug 19, 2002 - 10:30:00 PM
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The following statement was issued to PWTorch.com by Jay Hassman tonight, who is being sued by J Sports Entertainment.

The Statement, according to Jay:

He said, she said, paranoia reigns, one impugns, another seconds, a rumor is suddenly verified as truth, all spirals outward, everybody's living in fear, disaster's on the horizon, anger, hatred is incited from within, as with venomous "leaks-scoops" with "5-minute-later 1wrestling.com exclusive extensive interviews" (read in actuality, diatribes), manipulative, scandalous follow-ups, mixed with rumor-mongering and not only attempted character-assassination, but also highlighted by threats of death by shooting...
All this, just because some people don't understand, won't listen, and regardless of how many times things are explained, "just don't get it!"

Don't get it, misinterpret, cycle bad info in-house, get confused, lose focus, strike out helter-skelter, and when all else seems incomprehensible through a blood-wrenching fog of self-deception, scream, "GET THE LAWYERS!"

Time for a reality check, guys.

Better yet, let's try for a couple of reality checks, all centered on the infamous complaint impetuously filed by JSE and destined to become a laughable classic in the cable and PPV business and its workings...

So what's it all about, Alfie??

Try this for starters: -- No wrestling-exclusivity in agreement. (If so important to JSE, why wouldn't they include it in the agreement they prepared, especially since they "say" they obtained it verbally?) --No mentions of any restriction on other business activities. --Absolutely no mention of "100% of all Hassman's time just for JSE". (Don't have to look to far to find that quotee..or is it "quotor".. "quoter," or just elder JJ?)

More revealing, though, are these tidbits: The first three-and-a-half-months were spent by Len Sabal successfully negotiating and concluding the iN Demand agreement for the industry's first weekly, primetime, year-long PPV series. But guess what???)... JSE now says they never even knew Len was "JSE's guy," didn't know that Len was conducting the negotiations on their behalf, (despite paying Len's LA and NY travel, lodging, entertainment and related expenses for iN Demand contract meetings, and despite Jeff and Jerry's late night calls by JSE to Len, "Where's the termsheet?", "When will we know if we have a deal?", "When will we know what night of the week we'll have?", and apparently never even seeing Len's name next to theirs on the drafts and executed iN Demand agreements as a Party for Notices.... Three and a half months of high intensity efforts, concluding this first-ever deal that any other PPV programmer will tell them is a GREAT deal for JSE.. and JSE has the gall to allege Len is "incompetent" in their "complaint," just because they still don't understand the business despite the repeated lessons and explanations, and because they think they can drag Len into their tortuous-web of persecution via prosecution.. (Or as others more cynically note, "Or just don't want to honor the agreement now that they've got the deal.. maybes more so because they're behind the eight-ball.) Either way, it's ludicrous to label a major success the work of an "incompetent," but indicative of the thought processes that have taken hold.

And still not even understanding what they signed with iN Demand. Like exclusive distribution and sub-distribution rights, meaning (duhh) In Demand has the rights and obligation for licensing all other cable and satellite platforms, like TVN, including Cablevision, DirecTV, EchoStar, Canada and others. Let me say it again, when JSE signed the iN Demand agreement, they granted carriage negations and rights to iN Demand. But, says JSE in their "complaint," that afterwards those and other rights were taken away from iN Demand..Yeah, like iN Demand was just oh-so-happy to get the JSE project off their plate, probably because they were just too, too tired from the exhaustive 3.5 month contract negotiation with mean ol' Len that got them all worn out and ready for a nappy in the afternoon. Right. And Santa lives in Nashville.

Ditto JSE's absolute absence of knowledge of the process of affiliate marketing, how it's done, who does what, and how their claims that affiliates never had NWATNA marketing kits and video spots is a laughing matter among the many thousands of cable personnel that have had each and every ad slick, reprint, background document, press release and video spot at their fingertips when they needed it. In their claim, they moan and groan that 1900 press and marketing kits, complete with video spots, were never sent to the iN Demand and DirecTV affiliates..but they think that somehow that was to be done without any consideration for even the thought of cost that would be incurred with such a backward method...Let's see, $18 a kit with slick, repros, color slides, background docs..for 2000 systems (gotta have additionals just in case) for $36,000...Plus 2000 monthly :30 and :60 spots, at $4 a pop, for another $8,000...plus two-day express (needed for tracking purposes) at $14 per or $28,000, and so "YEAH, GUYS, LET'S BUDGET $72,000 A MONTH TO SHIP THIS STUFF TO THE SYSTEMS." Right. And Santa skis in Nashville, too.

SPEAKING OF BUDGETS: Didja hear the one about 720 to 540 to 350 to 250 to 170 to 136.5. K, that is.. As the NATIONAL MEDIA BUDGET FOR THE GRAND INTRODUCTION TO THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES POPULACE OF THIS'HEYRE GREAT NEW THING???

But that's a matter for the NEXT STATEMENT, According to Jay..We'll call that one NUMBER TWO, and it's coming your way soon, so stay tuned for more loony times.

PS: No telephone calls, please. My lawyers say nothing but prepared statements in order to prevent any more "downright consternation crisis creations." PS: Email any questions to me and I will answer only those that counsel says I can.

Jay Hassman


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