4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover the latest reporting on AEW's media rights negotiation process, including when the exclusive window with Warner Bros. Discovery may be closing.
Nate Wilcox of The MMA Draw newsletter joins the show from Texas and speaks about the latest on the case involving WWE and Attorney General Ken Paxton, and the scheduled hearing on Wednesday.
Plus: WWE front office cuts, several deals expire at AEW, Double or Nothing fallout, and the latest television viewership figures.
READING:
- AEW’s exclusive negotiating window ends in July, offer said to be ‘disappointing’
- Analysis: The latest reporting on AEW's ongoing media rights negotiations
Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” Ben Tramer”
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0:00.0 | Brandon Thurston from Rouslonomics is up next and we're going to follow Brandon with |
0:06.2 | John Pollack from post wrestling. |
0:09.2 | Thank you, Lynn. |
0:11.0 | Good afternoon everyone. |
0:13.0 | But we can't ignore the math, okay? |
0:16.0 | We can't ignore the data. |
0:18.0 | Go on Google Trend, type in your name, |
0:21.0 | then type in mine. |
0:22.0 | You're a straight line. I'm a pyramid. Type in your name, then type in mine. |
0:22.6 | You're a straight line. |
0:24.0 | I'm a pyramid. |
0:25.0 | I like the very direct question on that. |
0:27.6 | Television ratings, downward spiral, fire rate, plummeting. |
0:32.7 | The time is now to turn the math around. We're live for another edition of Pollack and Thurston. I am John Pollack alongside |
0:45.6 | Brandon Thurston joining us from Wrestleomics headquarters. How are you Brandon? |
0:50.0 | I'm fine, how are you? I'm doing all right. We are into the best time of the season. It's |
0:57.8 | it's renewal time. It's television negotiation time and pro wrestling right in the thick of it Brandon isn't this an exciting time to be alive? |
1:07.0 | It's been renewal time for the last, I don't know, year or so, at least, at least last year. |
1:14.3 | I feel like this has been this just overarching story attached to a ew their next rights deal. I'm curious one of the |
1:19.5 | up front the up fronts which were we've now had the up fronts for this year the up fronts last |
1:23.7 | year that's where everybody thought you know people were you know writing rhyming |
1:30.0 | limerick poems about how you know a new huge one billion dollar TV deal. |
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