Tony Schiavone Wants AEW Streaming Service After Network Takeover

Legendary announcer Tony Schiavone is hopeful that a recent corporate merger involving the promotion's television network will lead to an All Elite Wrestling streaming service.

AEW programming has gone out on WarnerMedia platforms TNT and TBS since Dynamite debuted in October 2019. Discovery completed a buyout of Warner in April, creating Warner Bros. Discovery, sparking speculation on AEW's televised future following Kathleen Finch's instalment as head of TBS.

Although it's impossible for outsiders to accurately predict what this will mean for AEW, good or bad, Schiavone spoke on the matter during a recent episode of What Happened When. Asked if he was concerned about the situation, the AEW commentator said the following (h/t WrestlingNews.co):-

“From the people I’ve talked with, no. For me on the surface, yes, because I know what happened before. But I think we have a viable enough product that if Discovery says, ‘We don’t wrestling’, we could end up somewhere else. The Khans are pretty plugged in. That’s what’s different about this era is that if Time Warner/Discovery doesn’t want us, we still have a business. I think there’s always some concern, but we’ve built up a very good relationship with Warner Media.”

Continuing, Tony said that he was hopeful of AEW content ending up on its own streaming platform as a result of the deal:-

“If this merger comes, and as we’ve been reading, they’ve been clearing out a lot of people, it seems to me they are really big into streaming services. What I hope this means is that we are finally going to have a streaming service. In other words, we are finally going to have our own network where we can show our old shows.”

The Discovery/WarnerMedia merger will result in existing streaming platforms HBO Max and Discovery+ being combined into one service in the near future.