Figured I’d make a thread to those interested.
I too was told by somebody July 21st.
In addition, over the last day or so, images of AEW on MAX in European markets, have appeared online. I’ve heard conflicting stories that this is from the last month to last 24 hours. Regardless, it could be a good sign that the deal is nearly done - or a whole lot of nothing.
We will probably be hearing something sooner than later though, one way or another.
If they stay with WBD, it’s hard to imagine the weekly shows leaving linear TV (regardless of your opinion on ratings, what would they replace it with that would do better?). But not paying for PPVs and getting the library on Max is what I’m rooting for.
Absolutely.
I think simulcasting would be a good option for weekly TV. But definitely, the money for weekly shows is linear television.
Does this mean that their PPVs would be available on Crave? (The Canadian version of HBO Max)?
I wouldn’t assume anything at the moment about Crave’s content.
While they get most HBO stuff, it doesn’t automatically get all the same programming and is a different company.
I’d love to see it happen though.
How does this play now?
I doubt it changes much, if anything at this stage.
Agreed. Unless somebody blew it with this report/leak of a deal being imminent, you’d have to think that its well known (behind closed doors) where the NBA rights are going to land.
(Or I’m completely wrong, Turner said “fuck it” and put in one more offer to try to retain the NBA before using its money elsewhere).
Not sure who on here cares about the NBA rights beyond the WBD/AEW aspect, but this is a helpful graphic.
Btw, this may be a dumb question, but is WBD losing out on NBA rights ultimately seen as a good thing or a bad thing for AEW?
i.e. does it mean WBD now has a huge chunk of change that they thought was committed elsewhere (plus more urgency to secure programming such as AEW), or does it mean WBD takes a huge financial hit by not securing NBA rights?
The long and short of it is that, nobody really knows.
It could be bad, as without NBA, Turner may lose some of their premium carriage fees.
It could be good, as WBD may be looking to spend much more on successful and proven content, and now has money on hand.
So, like everything else, nobody really knows.
If this is relevant at all, can someone explain it to me like I transferred out of business school 20 years ago and still don’t actually know what being “in finance” means? Hypothetically, of course.
Edit (not deleting, since conversation was impacted by this) but apparently it’s been debunked as phony.
I mean, can you trust him though? We know he’s pretty biased towards AEW. This is the same dude that consistently claims he can’t attend wrestlemania because it takes too much time and you would have to rewatch it in review but is perfectly happy to get on a plane and chill out a boat in London.
Like it’s a huge double standard with him. And if you pointed out, he’ll just attack you and say you’re being disingenuous.
I saw Bix talk mention this. Is this bad? Is this good? I mean, I guess that means ROH is coming to TV.
