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“If you’re an AEW fan, the last two days, not good news at all.”
“We knew that [WBD was] gonna do slashing of the budgets, but it really feels like...the prestige programming that TNT had, that that’s gonna be out the window. I just have this feeling aside from the NBA, that TNT [and TBS] is just gonna be another station on cable...it looks like they just want to slash things, and CNN too for that matter. They’re slashing everything.”
“...a lot of the executives at HBO Max are gonna be gone. A lot of the budget from HBO Max is probably gonna be down. They’re really trying to cut a lot of money. And they know that the one thing that they feel that they have to keep, which is gonna cost them a lot of money, is the NBA.”
“It’s probably the worst time possible to go in there and ask for a big raise in rates. It’s gonna be very interesting.”
“As far as giving it a big increase in rights, they’re really going to have to find outside bidders. And then that becomes problematic because if you go to a weaker station, your numbers aren’t gonna look as good.”
“[TBS] is the perfect fit for AEW. But at the same time, the key way the company’s gonna be able to make money is through television rights. And if you want to make it a profitable company, and your parent company is slicing budgets everywhere, and in ways that people do not expect it, such as stopping movies in production, stopping TV shows in production, I mean it’s been a bloodletting there. And there’s probably still more to come. So the timing for AEW, with their deal coming up which would be at the end of next year, the last two days haven’t looked good.”
