TKO Q1 Earnings | Ted Turner | WWE TV Contracts | Pollock & Thurston
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover TKO’s first quarter earnings report, Nick Khan extends his deal, the passing of Ted Turner, and more.
Plus: WWE’s Raw and SmackDown media rights contracts from 2019 - 2024 become public, Nick Khan's deposition, more talent departures at WWE, contracts being “restructured”, Ted Turner’s legacy and role professional wrestling played, as well as market-to-market comparisons from April.
00:00:00 Start
00:03:47 TKO Q1 Earnings Report
00:25:41 Nick Khan testified that the DOJ investigated sex trafficking, undermines Vince McMahon's statement
00:37:46 WWE Raw & SmackDown 2019-2024 media rights contracts
00:55:45 New Day exit WWE after a request to restructure contracts
01:04:53 Ted Turner dies at 87
01:10:24 WWE & AEW live events market-to-market comparisons
Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” by Ben Tramer
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| 0:00.0 | Brandon Thurston from Ressalonomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-restle. |
| 0:07.0 | Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins. |
| 0:11.0 | Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:14.0 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:18.0 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. |
| 0:24.5 | The reason is simple wrestling economics. |
| 0:27.7 | I've been told the Netflix numbers. |
| 0:29.9 | I've been told the metrics a little bit. |
| 0:30.9 | Probably five different times. |
| 0:31.7 | I still don't get it. |
| 0:35.7 | There were respectable wrestling journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:38.3 | Thank you very much members of the media. |
| 0:39.6 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:44.4 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 0:50.5 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 0:55.8 | Live from New York, it's Brandon Thurston, who has made it. |
| 1:02.3 | A show that 15 minutes ago, this show was in doubt, but Brandon, you delivered. |
| 1:03.1 | It was. |
| 1:07.7 | I called John from the streets of New York City. |
| 1:09.4 | I'm not lying. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm not making this up. |
| 1:11.9 | This is not satire. |
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