All Elite Wrestling #1: AEW announced TV deal with TNT, partners with B/R Live

[GKJ]

As we know, AEW is going to Turner. Dave said it will be a network in as many homes as USA.

 

[KaseMeOutside]

I wonder if we'll see any cross promotion during the NBA ECF once it's announced

 

[TimeZone]

Well let's see if the report is accurate.

Should be an interesting day Tomorrow.

 

[Disclose]

Main Card
Kenny Omega vs Chris Jericho
The Young Bucks vs Pentagon Jr. / Fenix
“Hangman” Adam Page vs PAC
Cody vs Dustin Rhodes
SCU (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian et Scorpio Sky) vs. CIMA, T-Hawk et Lindaman
Britt Baker vs Nyla Rose vs. Kylie Ra
Angélico et Jack Evans vs The Best Friends
Aja Kong, Yuka Sakazaki et Emi Sakura vs Hikaru Shida, Riho Abe et Ryo Mizunami.

PRE-SHOW
Casino Battle Royale (winner gets a shot at AEW championship): Sonny Kiss, Brandon Cutler, Ace Romero, Brian Pillman Jr., Glacier, Sunny Daze, MJF, Joey Janela, Dustin Thomas and more to be announced.

Sammy Guevara vs Kip Sabian

 

[Disclose]

 

[GKJ]

 

[Kimi]

Why can't they post that in a readable format? People who post pictures of text instead of just linking to it should be shot.

 

[GKJ]

Because then someone else can't copy and paste it

 

[Kimi]

Because then someone else can't copy and paste it

Except OCR is a thing. So that's a moot point.


And it's still not a reason to post an image of text in a small font AND with compression artefacts. You can render it perfectly if you want to with zero effort, they just chose to be bad and didn't.

 

[JackSlater]

It's not really worth reading anyway.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

This better not bump Rizzoli and Isles out of their timeslot.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Primetime on Tuesdays?

 

[KaseMeOutside]

10,000 RT on the official TNT account

12,000 on AEW

the interest is significant and very real

 

[Disclose]

so what is TNT drama? a special channel, but NOT the real TNT? where they show basketball and stuff.

 

[Fro]

so what is TNT drama? a special channel, but NOT the real TNT? where they show basketball and stuff.

It's what TNT has been rebrands as...the streaming is tntdrama.com

 

[xtra]

Well now that it’s confirmed with tnt the financial details on it will Be important.

If they do one show a week I wonder if 3 hours a week is too much or not - they will probably go with 2 hours which is smart to start out with.

 

[Cor]

Well now that it’s confirmed with tnt the financial details on it will Be important.

If they do one show a week I wonder if 3 hours a week is too much or not - they will probably go with 2 hours which is smart to start out with.

It's like 100% gonna be 2 hours, based on reports. Sounds like Tuesday nights.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

It's like 100% gonna be 2 hours, based on reports. Sounds like Tuesday nights.

Sounds Dynamite.

 

[TimeZone]

Well now that it’s confirmed with tnt the financial details on it will Be important.

If they do one show a week I wonder if 3 hours a week is too much or not - they will probably go with 2 hours which is smart to start out with.

Definitely anticipating that it'll be 2 hours. Excited that it'll be live.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

This is so big for wrestling. Hopefully TSN picks up the rights in Canada.

 

[GKJ]

The NBA has been on TNT for as long as there's been TNT. The two stations are very similar, both are pretty even in terms of number of homes (both are roughly between 94-96 million), but because of sports, TNT more recognizable channel than USA is. So while the money in all likelihood is not there for them, they do have the access, and they will have the programming to be promoted on. There is also a link to HBO if that's an avenue they want to explore as opposed to PPV.

AEW is coming for Vince. I don't know who and/or how many people, specifically in AEW are aware of that reality, but TNT didn't sign up for 300,000 viewers in prime time, and I do feel confident that AEW is going to challenge that Raw number on opening night. October is going to be very interesting. And I'm sure Vince is trying to think up something huge for Raw that week - which is also interesting because that's a resource that won't go to Smackdown's first week on Fox.

 

[Sheppy]

Just scrolled ahead to next Saturday on my DVR. Double or Nothing is $94.99 CAD, holy crap.

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Do they have to worry about NBA overlapping with their time slot?

 

[Emperoreddy]

This is fun.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

Meltzer says TNT would be happy with 400,000 viewers for AEW to start but there would be problems if it didn’t grow.