AEW Dynamite and Collision to remain on TBS/TNT + Stream on Max starting January 2025

[Hidden Blaze]

FUCKING BANK

 

[Comrade Khan]

[Dave Meltzer] The AEW/WBD deal will begin in January 2025 and is worth $555m over three years ($185m per year). There is an option for a 4th year. AEW will be very profitable with the new deal even before they get a TV deal for Shockwave.​

 

[Chris]

 

[Comrade Khan]

meltzer keeps peddling the equity lie along with others. wonder who is saying this shit to them. suspect nefariousness of their source

 

[Chris]

He says he thinks it bc of how Tony Khan has answered when asked a couple times, not sure if anyone is pushing it on him. But someone def pushed it to the sports business journal

 

[Comrade Khan]

He says he thinks it bc of how Tony Khan has answered when asked a couple times, not sure if anyone is pushing it on him. But someone def pushed it to the sports business journal

probably Legentil

 

[Chairman Jay]

[Dave Meltzer] The AEW/WBD deal will begin in January 2025 and is worth $555m over three years ($185m per year). There is an option for a 4th year. AEW will be very profitable with the new deal even before they get a TV deal for Shockwave.​

I was reading the PPV's are slightly discounted now.

 

[Chairman Jay]

Here's to all aew fans . We here still and will be for a long time to come.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

 

[Chairman Jay]

Nice Comment from Bully Ray.

 

[Chris]

The original report that broke that news has been updated with the amount those pesky dirt sheets said was actually true

 

[Chris]

In regards to the Max simulcasting, Meltzer is saying he THINKS (hasn't been for sure confirmed) that they will have regular commercials as a concession for having the option for the cable companies

 

[Chris]

Triller internationally isn't beholden to those masters like Max and AEW are in the US so I think he's probably right too sadly, makes too much sense to me

 

[Chris]

This is a tad unrelated but rare hard data of AEW finances, but in a recent filing of the Kevin Kelly/The Boys lawsuit it was revealed that over the past two years AEW wrestlers were paid $60M.

So we can reasonably assume it's higher than that average now with the additions this year's but even if it's like $75M thats so much they should be able to afford to spend on other things hopefully lol

 

[Chris]

• I think we proved a lot of so-called ‘experts’ — we made them look like idiots. We knew what was going on with this. The landscape changes constantly, numbers go up, numbers go down. But the overall demo of what AEW brings to the table as a live sporting event is invaluable. So we knew that it was something that people would want to be involved with and be a part of, and Warner Bros. Discovery didn’t want to let us go anywhere.
• And you can see, I mean, $185 million a year for a company that’s only been going for five years, that’s never happened before. Ever. Obviously WWE is the standard, the gold standard. They didn’t have a deal like that five years in. Nobody else has. So with all the growing pains — good and bad — that AEW has, we’re still such a young company. And that, to me, showed that we have a real commitment. We’re not going anywhere. Tony Khan’s not going anywhere. I’m not going anywhere, much to some people’s chagrin. And neither is the rest of the company. And I think it’s going to be a really great next 3-5 years. And, listen, Tommy [Dreamer] and Bully [Ray] know, there’s nothing worse than if AEW didn’t get a great television deal. There’s nothing better for the business, the fans, for you guys [than] for AEW to be thriving and to be healthy. And we are.