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shakeup with AEW TV Rights at WarnerMedia leads to wrestling return to TBS for first time in 21 years with Dynamite moving to TBS next year.

Will_H_69_9

Will_H_69_9

today, it was announced that AEW will be on the move from it's current home of TNT to it's WarnerMedia/Turner owned sister network TBS in 2022, as with the arrival of NHL next season to Turner Sports and AEW dealing with scheduling conflicts with NBA Playoff games preempting them means it's time to switch networks, right now, Dynamite will stay on TNT until 2022, but after 2022, Dynamite and a new AEW show called Rampage (which will launch on Friday, August 13 at 10 PM ET/9 PM CT (which will not conflict with WWE's Friday Night SmackDown on Fox) on TNT) will move over to TBS, marking the return of pro wrestling on the network for the first time in 21 years by the time the move happens as the last pro wrestling show to air on the network that was put on the map by pro wrestling and Atlanta Braves baseball aired the final episode of WCW's secondary programming Thunder in March of 2001. TBS's history with pro wrestling dates back to 1971, long before it became a national cable channel, with Georgia Championship Wrestling, WWE (then WWF, briefly from 1984 to 1985), Jim Crockett Promotions, Mid-South Wrestling and of course the successor of Crockett Promotions, WCW after Ted Turner bought it from Jim Crockett Jr.

also in the restructuring of the AEW/WarnerMedia TV rights contract, AEW will be allow to do PPV like specials (simlar to how WCW had a PPV like series called "Clash of The Champions" which aired as monthly specials on TBS until WCW started doing monthly PPVs) in the month where AEW has no PPVs (AEW does 4 PPVs a year as February is Revolution, May is Double or Nothing, September is All Out, and November is Full Gear) that will air on TNT.

this could open the door for Wednesday Night Hockey to air on TNT.

AEW Dynamite is moving to TBS in January 2022, perhaps paving the way for the NHL on TNT
 
nomadcowatbk said:
they won't just reboot WCW?
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WWE now owns the rights to WCW. And outside of a rumored window nearly 20 years ago that didn’t pan out, they’ve never shown much interest in rebooting it.

AEW is considered by those in the know to be sort of a “spiritual successor” to WCW, as far as being a major network competition (on Turner’s old networks, no less) to WWE, but hopefully without the mistakes that killed WCW to begin with. So far, at least, they seem to be avoiding those traps.
 
Will having the NHL on TNT getting higher ratings than AEW cause WarnerMedia to question giving AEW a new TV deal in 2024?
 
tall_guy1 said:
Wednesday night on tbs is Samantha bee. Doesn't quite go with wrestling.....
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it might be possible her show may move to Conan's slot and go to a 4 days a week format since her brand of political humor could work for a daily basis if they are planning on replacing Conan with her since he's moving from TBS to HBOMax.
 
TVCOOL said:
Will having the NHL on TNT getting higher ratings than AEW cause WarnerMedia to question giving AEW a new TV deal in 2024?
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actually the deal with AEW ends in 2023, not 2024, and it's possible AEW may get a renewal next year if AEW ratings continue to trend upward, with touring resuming for AEW this summer (same with WWE) and WWE NXT giving up the Wednesday Night War (a ratings war between the 2 show that was giving fans flashbacks to the famed Monday Night War when WCW Nitro aired up against WWE's Raw from late 1995 to early 2001).
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
TBS's history with pro wrestling dates back to 1971, long before it became a national cable channel, with Georgia Championship Wrestling, WWE (then WWF, briefly from 1984 to 1985), Jim Crockett Promotions, Mid-South Wrestling and of course the successor of Crockett Promotions, WCW after Ted Turner bought it from Jim Crockett Jr.
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You forgot "Championship Wrestling from Georgia." It aired Saturday mornings.

 
TVCOOL said:
Will having the NHL on TNT getting higher ratings than AEW cause WarnerMedia to question giving AEW a new TV deal in 2024?
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If NHL does great ratings on TNT and AEW tumbles, it might—but that’s a big if. Hockey typically isn’t a great ratings draw in the States, certainly not on the order of NFL, NBA or top-tier college football. Even Major League Baseball isn’t a huge ratings draw outside of Playoff time. Hockey and baseball get respectable ratings, and networks these days are always happy to have live sports that they can sell to advertisers with little DVRing. But barring some setback for AEW, it seems unlikely that hockey will drag on AEW’s ratings, which have actually been pretty competitive with NBA the last several months.
 
On average AEW's ratings gets 750,000 - 900,000 max while the NBA's ratings on TNT is ok but not on the level as in the past.
 
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