Pro wrestling legend and former WCW executive Eric Bischoff recently took to his 83 Weeks podcast and talked about AEW moving from TNT to TBS in 2022 isn’t just a good move, it’s a great move and is even a giant bonus.
Bischoff said, “I think the whole move is a giant bonus.” “I think it’s a brilliant move. Let’s look at it, and I don’t know how much money is involved, it doesn’t matter. Here’s what happened; AEW is moving from TNT on a Wednesday night at 8 p.m. over to TBS on a Wednesday night at 8 p.m. The audience is going to find them, there’s not going to be a loss of audience. It’s not going to change a thing so there’s no net loss. There’s no net gain, I don’t think there will be a net gain, but I could be wrong. But let’s just say it’s a neutral move, it’s a lateral move. Didn’t hurt, didn’t help, it just is.”
Eric Bischoff then talked about AEW's brand-new show called Rampage and how it is a huge positive for it to follow WWE SmackDown on a Friday night.
Bischoff said, “But they got a show on Friday night following SmackDown. Guess what I’m doing if I’m Turner? Tony, are you listening? I’m buying local advertising inside of SmackDown in all of the markets in this country that I want to promote my shows in, live events or otherwise. And while people are watching SmackDown, I’m going to be telling them ‘hey, when SmackDown’s over, guess what we’re doing over here?’ And you’re going to drag some of that audience with you. That’s not a positive, that’s a giant positive, a giant net gain."
“So they risk nothing, they get an extra hour of television which is going to be additional revenue, how much we don’t know (doesn’t matter, it’s going to work). And they’re going to be able to draft off of SmackDown. How does that suck?”
You can check out Eric Bischoff's comments in the video below:
