According to Tony Khan, WarnerMedia did offer Tony Khan to expand Dynamite to 3 hours but instead Khan chose to have another show. This is AEW: Rampage. Starting January 2022, AEW Dynamite will move to TBS with AEW: Rampage debuting on TNT on Friday, August 13th at 10 PM Eastern. The show will also move to TBS in 2022, but may not remain on Fridays after the move.
According to PWInsider, AEW is receiving an “eight figure payday” from Warner for the move from TNT to TBS.
Four new annual specials will air on TNT starting in 2022.
“Both TBS and TNT have an incredibly storied history with wrestling, so the idea of us being able to put more AEW onto TBS is a natural fit. Did the NHL have anything to do with it? Sure. NHL had something to do with it. NBA had something to do with it, the college schedule, the ton of preemptions. When we looked where the consumer’s gonna be, where wrestling fans were going to be, we want to give them the most opportunity to consume as many shows as possible. We felt TBS had an opportunity to be the network and the best platform for expansion,” said TBS/TNT/truTV GM Brett Weitz.
