I'll take the PPV piece of this first - AEW's PPVs were previously carried in the US by BleacherReport.com, a Turner/TNT Sports website, but it never made a ton of sense in that B/R never had a TV-centric streaming app, so to have PPVs move to Max is really more lateral than anything else.
As far as live-streaming AEW programming, I have to assume this is viewed as a way to stay competitive with Netflix (which will be taking on WWE Raw in the US and ALL WWE programming - new and archived - internationally starting in 2025) and Peacock (which is still the home of the WWE"s back catalog [save for NXT, which has moved to the CW app] and Premium Live Events). Zaslav would be foolish to think this is somehow going to fill the Shaq-sized hole created by losing rights to the NBA, but rasslin' has proven to be a consistent revenue draw, so there is some logic in maintaining the relationship. On Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 12:53:03 PM UTC-4 Mark Jeffries wrote: > Still hurting from the misbegotten decision to let the NBA package fly out > of their hands to Amazon, Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that it has > extended its relationship with All Elite Wrestling (the promotion that > isn't the WWE), with the weekly TBS and TNT programs to be also streamed > live on Max (God, John Oliver must be proud by now), along with future > pay-per-view events (which will be an extra charge): > > > https://www.thewrap.com/warner-bros-discovery-all-elite-wrestling-media-rights-renewal/ > > Remember, friends, Max--it's not HBO, it's just TV. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/6cea5288-3701-49a1-ab08-434113d1dbacn%40googlegroups.com.
