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The History of Pay Per View

By Scott Keith on June 17, 2016

This doesn’t have anything directly to do with wrestling but it’s a history of Pay-Per-View itself which started way back in 1951 (!). I just thought it was really interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyfa3wX4qFk



Indeed it was! And those early test setups showing black and white second-run movies for the 1950s equivalent of $80 a month were still doing better numbers than TNA.

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