The WarnerMedia/Discovery merger has wrestling fans and industry observers paying close attention to the company’s every move for signs about the television & streaming future of AEW.
A report TBS & TNT’s pro wrestling shows would get “a big push” at this week’s upfronts — where networks pitch their upcoming slate of content to advertisers — bolstered hopes AEW would remain a key piece of the newly-rechristened Warner Bros. Discovery’s plans. But the upfronts were this week, and when Warners Discovery made their presentation on Wednesday, WWE legend John Cena had as much of a presence as Tony Khan’s company.
Cena was there to tout a new season of Wipeout on TBS. AEW was represented by... a picture of Red Velvet.
It is good that Dynamite was represented as Wednesday’s premiere option. And it’s possible the presentation happening on the same day that show airs live created a scheduling conflict which prevented wrestlers from making an appearance. But it’s hard to believe TK would have turned down a chance to send someone (like Jade Cargill, a highly marketable star that didn’t do much in Houston this week) had Warners Discovery asked.
On Observer Radio, Meltzer summed up his read as:
>I don’t take it as a kiss of death or anything like that [but] the planning went from huge to not much at all, to kind of big, to not much at all. Those decisions were made by the people in charge, and they did go from kind of big to not much at all in the last week, so there’s no way to take that as a good sign.
Oh dear it is all falling to pieces. As rumored it seems like Discovery is slowly phasing out AEW before they shitcan it entirely. Makes sense they want to devalue the property as much as possible so rival networks can't make any money off the AEW brand they helped build
>be a janny
>delete thread mocking drones who watched a media network's stream for hours only to get no news
>allow drones to suck each off to a fever-induced hallucination they collectively had from the hours-long stream
jannies are useless
True
Janny is the mandygay and a shoot edrone
>where's muh AEW safespace
It's called reddit
GO BACK
>floods the board because he's a triggered schizo
>acts like a victim
go back to twatter
Nobody makes money off AEW but the wrestlers that conned Tiny out of the biggest contracts
You just know they picked Red Velvet as they have no idea who any of the stars are and picked a random black woman for clout and assumed they was a well known wrestler
one of the trannies jannies banned me for laughing when this happened kek
>Upfronts
Didn't this happen ages ago?
Why so late to the party, op?
It was yesterday and they didn't even mention AEW kek
It was yesterday? Why are trannies acting like it happened over a month ago?
Trying to bury the truth
I still don't know what an upfront is
These are the brands they consider important. Kek
>cartoon network
literally how? isn't that shit network just a Teen Titans Go Channel 24/7?
Lol edrones at least wait for rampage to be cancelled before doing this low level troll lol
I remember Discovery+ had an upfront and didn't invite AEW. So Tony bought himself a table and paid his own accommodations. What a geek.
>And it’s possible the presentation happening on the same day that show airs live created a scheduling conflict which prevented wrestlers from making an appearance.
i think the roster is plenty deep to send some people out. didn't phil show up injured to some geek shit recently for aew promo?
oh nooo
first drones said rampage would be canceled live during an investor call, now they've moved the goalposts to this, e-tards eternally BTFO