WWE Show disproportion and TNA's PPV cut

Two topics to discuss in this post. First, something I'm sure I must have mentioned before, or if I didn't, I must have at least spoken about it. I can't be the only one with the feeling that Raw is the only show that the WWE seem to care about right now. I've already spoken about the obvious lack of the roster's top stars on Smackdown. How often do you see John Cena, CM Punk, The Rock [I know he was there once or twice in recent weeks] or The Undertaker on Smackdown? Yes The Undertaker is never on TV anymore until the few weeks leading up to Wrestlemania. When he is on TV during that time though, don't tune in to Smackdown if you want to see him. He seems to be exclusive to Raw, like many of the other top guys. We know Main Event and NXT are secondary shows anyway, but Smackdown is [or at least was] not. It would be one thing if there was a reason for the absences of these guys on Smackdown, but I can't seem to find a reason as to why they are only on Raw. Most of the remaining roster seems to be able to make it to Raw and Smackdown, so why can't Punk and Cena? It's as if Smackdown rolls around and the writers go 'ah no, we're gonna have to fill this show up with matches and segments again.' I'm not hounding the WWE for doing this, but it just seems completely illogical. They want ratings, yet people who used to watch both shows, in the old days, when Smackdown would be a continuation of Raw, or the slightly less old days, when there was a brand split and Smackdown and Raw both had their own top guys, can now see that Smackdown does not matter. You can miss an episode of Smackdown, or even a handful of episodes of Smackdown, and you'll be fine. All this will do is get fans to start missing Smackdown, knowing it's less important. Raw is where it happens.

Moving on to TNA. Not too long ago they made a decision to only do four PPV's per month. What does this mean? Will it be better? Well I don't know. I highly doubt that having less PPV's is going to improve the quality of their product, but it's a move they have made for reasons that I can only image to be 'these PPV's cost a lot more to promote and not enough people are buying them.' It seems they simply are not generating enough interest. That could partly be because the PPV cards are not gripping, or because a lot of them take place at the same Disney studio arena that Impact airs in. If having a PPV every three months means storylines get more time to develop and the PPV's themselves are actually big events, with more interesting cards, then I'm all for it. Of course there is no guarantee that this move will improve the product, but we will just have to wait and see.