AEW President and CEO Tony Khan was a guest on Market Domination Overtime, a program on Yahoo! Finance, during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. In the discussion, he covered various topics, including the split of Warner Bros. Discovery and its potential impact on the promotion in the future.
This is what Khan said, “That’s a great question. I know that AEW, for both sides of where Warner Bros. is going, we have great relationships with everybody at the top. Both on Global Networks and Streaming & Studios. Mr. Zaslav himself put our deal together. Gunnar (Wiedenfels), who will be running Global Networks, also was very involved in our deal as the CFO. The two of them and Bruce Campbell really negotiated this deal with AEW and myself and my team. So, on both sides, we’ve got the great relationships and both sides that really love AEW and have come to be great partners with AEW. So, for us, it’s been a big year in 2025 and now we’re kind of on both sides of that equation. We are a big part of TBS and TNT, the crown jewels of the Global Network side and then we’re also a huge — now — part of Streaming & Studios with AEW streaming every week so it’s exciting.”
All Elite Wrestling and WBD have signed a multi-year deal worth $185 million annually for the promotion’s media rights. This includes Dynamite on TBS and Collision on TNT, both of which have a simulcast on Max in the U.S.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
