Tony Khan wants AEW's library of shows to be added to the MAX streaming service. AEW has made a strong connection with Warner Brothers Discovery, which used to be called WarnerMedia.
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Tony Khan wants AEW’s library of shows to be added to the MAX streaming service. AEW has made a strong connection with Warner Brothers Discovery, which used to be called WarnerMedia. The company has weekly TV shows on TBS and TNT called AEW Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision. The fact that WBD just added Collision shows that they want more AEW material.
Fans keep wondering if AEW’s library could end up on a streaming service like WBD’s MAX as the company keeps adding more shows. Khan talked about a possible streaming service for AEW with Mike Johnson of PWInsider. He said that Warner Brothers Discovery has the streaming rights for them right now. Khan also talked about how strong their relationship was. The CEO of AEW then talked about how big AEW’s material library is.
“Well, if you live abroad, there’s a great streaming service AEW Plus that we’ve put together for international,” Khan said. “Domestically, all of our streaming rights are held exclusively by Warner Brothers Discovery. They also have all of our domestic TV rights exclusively, which has been great and has helped drive the launch of AEW Collision, which has been such a great success and in addition to Rampage and Dynamite, where we again celebrate episode 200 tonight of Wednesday night Dynamite on TBS. And that relationship is really important to us.
“The streaming rights is something that they’ve put a lot of thought into. You know, as of tonight, again, there’s 200 episodes of Wednesday night Dynamite. There’s over 100 episodes of Friday night Rampage. And we’ve now going into this week this will be episode eight of Saturday Night Collision, and that’s a really strong collection that we’re building there. And we’ve also had about 20 huge pay-per-view events, and hundreds of episodes of AEW Dark, and 1000s of hours that I own outside of the AEW catalog of Ring of Honor footage that includes some of the biggest stars in all of pro wrestling today and all time.”
Khan went on to say that he thinks they have everything they need to make a good video site. Before he said that his dream is for the library to end up on MAX, he made it clear that AEW would be a great addition to a streaming service. Khan also said that he thinks AEW’s streaming service will happen and that it’s up to WBD to make it happen.
“When you look at all that, I think we have all the bones for a really, really strong streaming platform,” Tony Khan said. “I think it would be a very strong addition to any streaming platform. And my dream is that it all lands on MAX. I think it would be tremendous; right now, AEW: All Access is available on that, which is very cool. And hopefully, that’s a step in the right direction of getting our stuff streaming.
“We’ve got a great library altogether with everything I own. It’s 1000s of hours of great wrestling. And the AEW catalog has grown so much, considering it was stuff we bootstrapped and started the thing from scratch four years ago. And I believe the streaming service will happen. As to where it is and what platform it is that is something that I believe largely will be influenced by Warner Brothers.”
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