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AEW owner Tony Khan declared to The Hollywood Reporter that with the promotion's new deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, today was the "biggest day" in the history of the promotion.
“I could not ask for better bosses than Kathleen and [WBD CEO] David Zaslav,” Khan said, noting that they invited him to attend the 2024 Paris Olympics with them and their families. “They’ve been so supportive of AEW from the time that Discovery and Warner Brothers came together to form Warner Bros. Discovery, I’ve gotten so much love and support from this team.”
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO of U.S. Networks Kathleen Finch praised AEW in the same piece, declaring, "Nobody can deliver an audience the way AEW can."
“The benefit now to WBD is to introduce this terrific event to a streaming audience, the Max audience, which may not have been exposed to AEW in any great way until now, starting in January, is going to have it every Wednesday and and Saturday nights, as well as the library available to stream,” Finch said, "So we are really excited about the growth opportunity and the excitement opportunity that the fandom can bring once we’ve got a new platform to expose AEW to.”
It was noted that the PPV element of AEW events on Max is still being developed on the tech side of the streaming app and there is no specific launch date set. Finch said the PPV addition will "open up a lot of exciting possibilities for the fans and for the Max platform as well."
Finch praised Khan, noting, "What he has done in five years is so miraculous that I think we sometimes lose sight of that. It’s the five-year anniversary tonight of something that should actually be 10 or 15 years old given all the growth that it’s had.”
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