AEW Collision, WWE’s domestic rights with Tony Maglio | POST x Wrestlenomics
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🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston chat with reporter Tony Maglio of IndieWire after covering this week’s upfront presentations.
They chat about the confirmation of AEW Collision at this week’s WBD presentation, the strategy of adding two more hours in prime time, running on Saturday night, and the impact of having CM Punk to get the show off the ground.
Plus, a discussion about the key points from Nick Khan’s speech at the MoffettNathanson TMT conference.
Tony Maglio is the Executive Editor of Business coverage at IndieWire
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. It is John Pollock and Brandon Thurston a Friday edition of the show on the state |
| 0:07.7 | in 2023. How are you, Brandon? I'm fine. John, how are you? |
| 0:13.2 | You know, the biggest question I have for you today is that on this date, this historic date of |
| 0:17.3 | May 19th, in 2006, were you going and purchasing a ticket to Cino Evil, starring Kane as WWE |
| 0:25.6 | Studios went for their sophomore effort after the Marine and marketed this entire movie around the |
| 0:31.6 | date of May 19th for a month. It's an example of how great Vince McMahon is at branding. He |
| 0:39.2 | loves branding, and I think that was another example of how smart he is, and I'm brilliant |
| 0:44.0 | he is with branding and making people remember what the release date of that movie was. |
| 0:51.6 | Did I see it? How did it do, by the way? |
| 0:53.7 | Oh, how did it do? I feel like it had like a good life on DVD if I am not mistaken. |
| 0:58.8 | I think it was not, it was certainly not a bomb, I would say. I would say like in relative terms |
| 1:03.5 | of WWE Studios successes, it would be in the small column of, all right, it did okay. Do you remember |
| 1:08.6 | what happened last year on May 19th? Not a clue. What happened on May 19th? |
| 1:12.1 | And temporary leave of absence. |
| 1:14.4 | A temporary leave of absence. Oh, okay. Well, what a quiet ear sense at that point. |
| 1:20.7 | Well, we are going to be joined at this point. Very special guest today. It was up front week |
| 1:25.3 | in New York City. This man, front and center, you know him as the executive editor of business |
| 1:30.8 | coverage over at IndieWire, a very, very busy week for this man. Tony Maglio is with us. |
| 1:36.4 | Tony, our US, still live and still standing after you have been bombarded with networks telling you |
| 1:42.6 | by our inventory. We have the next best thing coming up and it's all at your fingertips. |
| 1:48.2 | I'm alive thanks to coffee and they don't have anything to sell this year because the writers |
| 1:54.8 | are on strike and there are no shows. So you would think wrestling would have been at the forefront |
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