AEW No Longer Available On 2 International Broadcasting Platforms
AEW content no longer available on DAZN and TelevisaUnivision internationally.
AEW content is no longer available on DAZN and TelevisaUnivision in international markets after the Tony Khan-helmed promotion's deals with the platforms quietly ended.
Via Twitter, former DAZN writer Steven Muehlhausen revealed that DAZN had exercised a one-year out clause on its deal with AEW on New Year's Eve. Originally, he stated that the platform made this call as audience figures were below DAZN's expectations.
SCOOP: DAZN and AEW had a three-year deal with DAZN having the right to drop them after the first year. DAZN exercised the option that ended the deal on New Year’s Eve.
The reason DAZN dropped AEW was because except for All In, the PPV numbers were below expectations and not… https://t.co/fvI5BwvUe7
Advertisement— Steven Muehlhausen (@SMuehlhausenJr) April 28, 2024
In a follow-up post containing information that definitely should have been included in the original "scoop" (which quickly gained traction, encouraging kneejerk responses from less-discerning Twitter users), as it provides important context, Muehlhausen absolved AEW of blame for the non-renewal. He noted that DAZN allocated less than 5% of the budget it gives to boxing and MMA to wrestling, meaning that beyond the platform's news and social media teams, AEW wasn't given "the opportunity it deserved."
Want to make PERFECTLY CLEAR, to me it wasn’t AEW fault the deal wasn’t renewed.
I ran the wrestling social side for DAZN. AEW bent over backwards when I asked for interviews and liners from talent to promote their major TV shows and PPVs.
DAZN NEVER gave wrestling even 5… https://t.co/pz6ljpkufiAdvertisement— Steven Muehlhausen (@SMuehlhausenJr) April 28, 2024
DAZN had offered AEW's weekly television offerings and pay-per-views in the following countries:
Albania, Alderney, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, Jan Mayen Islands, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Svalbard, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
AEW's deal with TelevisaUnivision, understood to be worth approximately $150,000 annually, had run since July 2023 and was intended to bring AEW programming to the ViX streaming service in Mexico, plus additional countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. ViX's support page containing the news was last updated on 13 March, per the HTML code.