Tony Khan Confirms Talks With WWE’s New Broadcast Home

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AEW President Tony Khan has confirmed talks with WWE’s new broadcast home, The CW Network during ROH Final Battle media call.

Earlier in 2023, WWE officially announced that NXT will be moving over to The CW Network starting in October 2024. The deal is set to be a 70% increase in media rights for the show, which is by far the highest increase in NXT media rights in the show’s history.

WWE wasn’t the only company in talks with the network as both NWA and AEW were reported in discussions to sign media rights deals, which you can read here.

During the ROH Final Battle media call, AEW President Tony Khan was asked about the tape libraries of both AEW and Ring of Honor by Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp. SRS tweeted:

Tony Khan tells me that he values AEW/ROH and the library being able to be shopped together.

He says they’ve had a lot of interested parties in ROH. He hasn’t got into many detailed talks, but CW did visit with them last year. Khan didn’t feel the timing was right.

This confirms the reports by Haus of Wrestling who reported that a high-level CW executive approached Khan about bringing ROH to the network.

The original report stated that Khan believed that by waiting, he will have more options and leverage in the marketplace.

On the meeting, Haus of Wrestling was told that Khan found the CW executive to be very pleasant, and someone he enjoyed visiting with, but the timing to make the deal was just simply not right.

It remains to be seen where AEW and ROH will sign new media rights deals in 2024 at the time of this writing.

ROH Final Battle 2023 will be headlined by Athena defending the ROH Women’s World Championship against Billie Starkz.

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