Tony Khan Comments On How AEW Will Accommodate Shift To Four Hours Of TV Time After End Of AEW Rampage

Tony Khan says AEW shifting to four hours of television will be a change.

Tony Khan says AEW shifting to four hours of television will be a change.

The December 27 episode of AEW Rampage is set to be the last edition of the show for the time being. Khan said that the December 22 taping would be the last one for the foreseeable future.

During the AEW Worlds End media call, Josh Nason of the Wrestling Observer about the loss of AEW Rampage and whether this could lead to cuts in the first part of the year to help accommodate for the loss of those hours.

“I can’t say right now how we’ll accommodate that. It’s a good question to ask. With the company getting significantly more money, many times more money to produce these four hours of TV and focus on that, and then carry that over into the streaming platform, it is a change from doing five hours of TV. But we’ll be much, much, much better off as a company with this deal. As for how we’ll reimagine the roster and how we’ll utilize everybody going forward, it’s a fair question to ask and it’s something we’ll have to look at, but I think there will be great opportunities versus a year and a half ago, when Collision first launched, we had been doing AEW for many years with three hours, with only two primetime hours. Now, this opportunity to have four hours in these time slots is just a great, great chance for AEW. It’s the biggest opportunity we’ve ever had. It will be a change, doing four hours instead of five hours, but again the company is growing, and it’s going to be a great opportunity for AEW, but it is a change. It’s a really exciting opportunity for us. It’s a fair question to ask about how we’ll handle it. I can’t speak to that now, but I appreciate you asking,” Khan said.

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