My question is this...
How many buys, roughly, is NJPW or even Dragon Gate getting for these shows?
Secondly, how many people would get ROH, DGUSA, Evolve, if it were a stable production?
Early estimates for New Japan were low end 1,000 or so, high end over 2,000 (international, Japan runs on another platform and does around 100,000 domestic for a Dome show, 40-80k for a standard show which population adjusted is pretty solid business). But nobody knows how accurate those estimates were, because Meltzer stopped reporting them when it became obvious they were sketchy figures at best. So in short, nobody really knows.
This is very unscientific, but I suspect Dragon Gate does next to nothing, because I live tweet every show from all of these companies, and twitter is dead during the DG shows. I'm talking DEAD. No buzz, no chatter, nothing. During G1 and big New Japan shows, twitter is on fire, even at 3am.
ROH does four figures routinely, they topped 2,000 for a few Final Battles. They could easily afford USTREAM & profit.
DGUSA from what I recall in in the 400-600 range, topping out around 900-1000. Evolve a little lower. Still, with 40 fucking buys the break even point, to me it's a no brainer. But wwnlive is under the same umbrella, so they will never leave because there is no split or cost, it's all bottom line for them. The rub, is the shitty stream quality driving off consumers.