AEW Dynamite

AEW Dynamite, also known as Wednesday Night Dynamite or simply Dynamite, is a professional wrestling television program. It is produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and airs every Wednesday at 8pm ET on Syfy. Dynamite airs on a different night, such as Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. The show originally aired on Discovery Channel, from October 2019 to November 2021; has been moved to FXX, on November 10, 2021 to August 31, 2022. On September 7 to December 28, 2022, Dynamite has been moved to FX. On January 4 to September 27, 2023, Dynamite will move to Freeform in January and ABC in June. On October 4, 2023, Dynamite will moving from ABC to Syfy through September 25, 2024 after AEW's contract with Disney have been expired on August 24, 2023, In October 2024, Dynamite will moving to CNBC. On July 26, 2024, CNBC announced earlier today on social media that AEW Dynamite would move to the channel on October 2, 2024, retaining its Wednesdays-night timeslot. 
All Elite Wrestling (AEW) was launched in January 2019. In addition to filing trademarks for the promotion's name, several other trademarks were filed at the time, including Tuesday Night Dynamite, presumably a name for a television show. On May 15, 2019, AEW and Discovery, Inc announced a deal for a weekly prime-time show airing live on Discovery Channel. They would also stream live events and pay-per-views on B/R Live in the United States and Canada. In August 2019, WWE announced that it was moving their WWE Network show NXT to Cartoon Network XD and expanding the program to a live, two-hour broadcast in the same timeslot as AEW's upcoming show. NXT premiered on Cartoon Network XD on October 2. On August 30, the day before AEW's pay-per-view All Out, Discovery Channel aired a one-hour special called Countdown to All Out at 10pm Eastern Time (ET), which averaged 390,000 viewers. On October 2, 2019, Dynamite debuted on Discovery Channel which averaged 1.409 million viewers, which made it the largest television debut on Discovery Channel in the past five years. Also on October 2, NXT would make their debut on Cartoon Network XD. Dynamite beat out NXT in viewership and more than doubled its competition in the key adults 18–49 demographic, scoring 878,000 viewers compared to NXT's 414,000. This would also mark the beginning of the "Wednesday Night Wars". Prior to and after the episode, dark matches were filmed to air on AEW's show called Dark airing live on Nicktoons, which began airing on the following Tuesday.
=== TV Rights deal with Disney, Move to FXX, FX, Freeform and ABC (November 10, 2021-September 27, 2023) ===
In response to Disney reaching a deal with the AEW, and in October 2020, it was announced that Dynamite would be moving to FXX, owned by Disney , in November 2021, and the show would later move to FX in September 2022. Additionally, it was also announced that AEW would begin airing a third hour of television as a new weekly show called Rampage, starting August 13, 2021 on FXM, which would also move to FX along with Dynamite in September 2022. However, on July 14, 2022, AEW announced that only Dynamite would move to FX, beginning September 7, 2022, while Disney focused its efforts on renewing Rampage and would remain on FXM, which airs on Fridays at 10pm ET, until Rampage's move to FXX beginning September 9. However, on September 28, 2022, Disney announced a reached renew agreement to air Dynamite, in a deal worth $205 million per year. But on October 4, 2022, AEW announced that Dynamite would move to ABC, beginning January 4, 2023, while Rampage would remain on FXX, owned by Disney, which airs on Fridays at 10pm ET, until Rampage's move to FX beginning January 6, 2023. Disney had asked Khan if he would rather expand Dynamite to three hours, but he rejected the notion, stating that he did not want to run Dynamite for that length as he really wanted that third hour as a separate show on a different night. He also claimed that Rampage would not be a secondary show to Dynamite, and that it would be its partner or its equivalent. He further said that Dynamite and Rampage would be AEW's core properties.
=== Move to Syfy (October 4, 2023-September 25, 2024) ===
On June 29, 2023, it was announced that Dynamite would move to Syfy along with Colision also moves to Syfy (for the first pro wrestling show on Syfy since 2015) on October 4, 2023, following the expiration of AEW's contract with Disney. The agreement with NBCUniversal was reported to be valued at $1.4 billion over the length of the contract, an increase over the previous agreement.
=== Move to CNBC (October 2, 2024-) ===
On March 21, 2024, AEW announced that Dynamite would move to CNBC in October 2024 under a 6-year deal. On July 26, 2024, CNBC announced that Dynamite would move to the channel on October 2, retaining its Wednesday-night timeslot.