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Just a rumor, but I'm hearing AEW may have gotten a deal worth a billi
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Mike Tenay noted that a sports story to watch which is just starting to happen is that several Western teams are pulling out of their deals with the dying RSN's and trying to get television deals for all games with their local market regular television over the air stations. The idea is that with RSN's dying and people cutting back on signing up for cable, that the teams will get more viewers and more local exposure on traditional television. The move to streaming that everyone predicted hasn't materialized because all the money from streaming hasn't been there like they expected with so many streaming platforms so deep in the red to begin with. Since television sports migration and news has to do with the most important pro wrestling and MMA stories as far as the money end goes, this is something to watch out for.
 
Just a rumor, but I'm hearing AEW may have gotten a deal worth a billi
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I don't know what it is. AEW appears more popular than ever, yet I just can't get into the product. I like most of their roster, but the shows just don't keep my attention. It feels like the stories are inconsistent and you never know who exactly will be featured. It really does feel like wCw in 2000, which I actually liked when I was a kid, but I can see the mess now.
 
I don't know what it is. AEW appears more popular than ever, yet I just can't get into the product. I like most of their roster, but the shows just don't keep my attention. It feels like the stories are inconsistent and you never know who exactly will be featured. It really does feel like wCw in 2000, which I actually liked when I was a kid, but I can see the mess now.
 
We’ve heard so much about AEW’s new Saturday show Collision and possible plans for it that it’s hard to remember that it officially doesn’t even exist yet.





But that should change soon, and not just because we’re getting closer and closer to the date Tony Khan’s allegedly booked Chicago’s United Center to host the show’s premiere (and likely CM Punk’s return to the company).

No, it’s because next week is upfronts. That’s when networks — and streamers who have ad-supported tiers, which is now most of them — present their upcoming programming slates to potential advertisers. Warner Bros Discovery will make their pitches on May 17 at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theatre, and PWInsider& others say that’s when we’ll get confirmation of Collision.

There are also some pretty big numbers being bandied about online regarding the new deal Tony Khan’s believed to have inked with WBD for Dynamite, Rampage, Collision and possibly more... but we’ll wait for someone to go on record with a report before we get too far into that discussion. Even if that doesn’t happen in the interim, we’ll find out more next Wednesday.

UPDATE: Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer isn’t reporting the terms (years or amounts), but did go on record to say a new rights contract will be announced at the Warner Bros Discovery upfronts. He reiterated a past report that the deal gives WBD exclusive rights to AEW product, thus the cancellation of the YouTube shows, and that it doesn’t include Ring of Honor.
 
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