>>8200392>Wrestling Observer Radio’s Dave Meltzer described how WBD’s budget cuts are changing the landscape for AEW as the company tries to secure a lot more money on a new TV deal with WBD:“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.”
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