Tony Khan: AEW Media Rights Deal "Very Lucrative"

Tony Khan is confident that AEW will receive vastly improved rights fees for their television shows and streaming services during the next set of negotiations.

Speaking to Uproxx, he said;

“I expect big increases in the rights for the AEW programs and we’re on a good pace to make a very lucrative deal for the AEW media rights going forward...we’ve done 174 episodes of Dynamite, 80 episodes of AEW Rampage, our 17th pay-per-view event will be March 5 in Revolution, so we’ve done hundreds and hundreds of hours of AEW content in our library. I also purchased Ring of Honor last year, which is a great promotion with over 20 years of history, thousands of hours of video in their library...There’s a lot of interest in this library as well as the new weekly content we continue to produce each week, and I do think there’s a lot of demand for the library and it makes a lot of sense for us to try to make that AEW library available to fans all over the world on demand.”

Thanks to Being The Elite and the Road To... series, there have been calls for All Elite Wrestling to offer a service similar to the WWE Network, and those have only grown louder with the above hours and hours of AEW and ROH content since produced and/or procured by the company.

Dynamite is currently earning the company approximately $44million a year after negotiating a revised deal in early-2020. The show's excellent performance ever since has ensured Khan's projections are sound.