{"id":56036,"date":"2018-02-28T12:36:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=56036"},"modified":"2018-02-28T12:43:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:43:53","slug":"tv-asahi-announces-big-increase-njpw-world-subscribers-foreign-numbers-increase-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/02\/28\/tv-asahi-announces-big-increase-njpw-world-subscribers-foreign-numbers-increase-well\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Asahi announces big increase in NJPW World Subscribers, foreign numbers increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-676142777\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>TV Asahi announced at a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/hl?a=20180227-00000073-sph-ent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press conference<\/a>\u00a0on Feb. 27 that NJPW World subscribers went up 40% ahead of Wrestle Kingdom 12 on Jan. 4. The numbers were broken down as foreign subscriptions to NJPW&#8217;s OTT service going up 80% with U.S. subscription seeing a 60% increase.<\/p>\n<p>It was also revealed during the press conference that NJPW has big expectations for their next U.S. event in March when they run Strong Style Evolved on March 25. TV Asashi claimed that subscription numbers went up 15% for NJPW World, which indicated the company was creating compelling globel content. Chris Jericho, who wrestled Kenny Omega at Wrestle Kingdom on Jan. 4 was given credit for the big overall increase of subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Asahi are trumpeting NJPW\u2019s presence in the U.S. and have high hopes for Strong Style Evolved. Last year\u2019s LA shows saw a 15% bump in subscriber numbers overall at NJPW World.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1906654799\"><div id=\"pwtor-2682093372\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>TV Asahi announced at a\u00a0press conference\u00a0on Feb. 27 that NJPW World subscribers went up 40% ahead of Wrestle Kingdom 12 on Jan. 4. The numbers were broken down as foreign subscriptions to NJPW&#8217;s OTT service <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/02\/28\/tv-asahi-announces-big-increase-njpw-world-subscribers-foreign-numbers-increase-well\/\" title=\"TV Asahi announces big increase in NJPW World Subscribers, foreign numbers increase\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[131,404,5344,5918],"class_list":["post-56036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_japan","tag-chris-jericho","tag-njpw","tag-njpw-world","tag-tv-asashi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NJPWdark_3x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56038,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56036\/revisions\/56038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}