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Earlier today, All Elite Wrestling announced that their Dynamite series has signed an extension with Warnermedia, as well as adding a second AEW program to a network under their umbrella.
According to Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer, the new deal is worth $175 million dollars, and will run through 2023, with an option to carry over.
Meltzer also reports that All Elite Wrestling will have to pay their own production costs, but will retain split ad revenues with Warnermedia.
Tony Maglio of The Wrap spoke with Turner President Kevin Reilly who revealed the additional AEW programming will be on TNT.
Maglio states the second AEW series will be ‘AEW Dark’. This may indicate either a rebranding of the program, which currently airs on Youtube.
That second #AEW series will be #AEWDark, Turner President Kevin Reilly told me. It will be on TNT, it will be weekly but maybe not 52x/year. We do not yet have a weeknight for it, but obv. “Dark” is currently a Tuesday show on YouTube. #TCA20 #AEWDynamite
— Tony Maglio (@TonyMaglio) January 15, 2020
The additional series will be one-hour in length, and is scheduled to be taped the same night as AEW Dynamite
In comparison to WWE’s television deals, AEW is making significantly less, but is comparable to NXT on a per hour basis.
Wresltenomics provided data outlining annual revenue of U.S television deals for both WWE and AEW.
| Media Partner | Show | Annual Revenue | Length |
| NBCUniversal | WWE RAW | $275 Million | 3 hours |
| FOX | WWE SmackDown | $205 Million | 2 hours |
| NBCUniversal | WWE NXT | $30 Million | 2 hours |
| Warnermedia | AEW | $45 Million | 3 hours |