AEW Dynamite

* Running Time: 2 hours
* Day: Tuesday
* Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Don Callis and Chris Jericho
* USA TV network: USA Network
* TV Parental Guidelines: TV-14
* Theme: "Dynamite" by No One Hero

## History

On May 8, 2019, AEW reached a new media rights deal with British media company ITV to broadcast AEW shows on ITV4. On May 15, 2019, AEW and Comcast announced a deal for a weekly prime-time show airing live on USA Network after WWE announced it will be moving Raw and SmackDown to Fox from September. Comcast and Vince McMahon once friendly relations had turned bitter following the failure of the rebooted XYL and back-and-forth between VKM and Comcast resulting in VKM cancelling WWE's shows on Comcast TV networks. VKM's comments about Comcast angered the company and were disappointed at losing pro wrestling on their network (they were huge fans of wrestling) and gained a 49% stake in AEW as well as put AEW shows on their networks and promote them heavily.

In April, Tony Khan confirmed the show would be a weekly 2 hour live show. During Full Gear, Chris Jericho confirmed the show would be starting in October. On July 24, AEW announced the show would premiere on Tuesday, October 1, and would broadcast live from the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. On August 2, it was announced that the show had sold out within 3 hours of tickets going on sale.

Like they had done for each of their pay-per-view events, AEW began a "Road to" YouTube series on September 4 entitled *The Road to AEW on USA Network* to build anticipation for the debut broadcast of the show. On September 19, 2019, the show's name was revealed as *All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite*. A 1-hour preview show called *Countdown to AEW: Dynamite* aired on September 30 at 8pm ET and averaged 631,000 viewers.

On September 25, 2019, in Canada, Bell Media's TSN acquired broadcast rights to *Dynamite*, marking the return of professional wrestling to the network after *WWE Raw* moved to rival network Sportsnet 360 in 2006. The show is broadcast in simulcast with USA Network in the U.S (but is subject to scheduling) and is streamed on TSN Direct as well as TSN's website. In the United Kingdom, *Dynamite* will be added to ITV Hub on Thursday evenings, and air on ITV4 on Friday nights.

On October 2, 2019, *Dynamite* debuted on USA Network which averaged 1.409 million viewers, which made it the largest TV debut on USA Network in 5 years. Prior to and after the episode, untelevised matches were filmed to air on *AEW Dark* on the following Tuesdays (except before PPV events, where the episodes air Fridays) on AEW's YouTube channel.

On January 15, 2020, it was announced that Comcast had extended the contract for the series through 2023. Beginning on March 18, 2020, AEW began airing empty arena shows from Nightmare Factory in Norcross, Georgia. This was due to the COVID-19 pandemic that caused many restrictions for live events around the world.

AEW Dynamite is AEW's flagship show. AEW Rampage is the 2nd weekly television show, positioned behind their flagship show. AEW Dark is aired exclusively on AEW's YouTube channel which would showcase dark matches. Unlike the dark matches of other wrestling promotions, which generally do not affect storylines, the matches featured on Dark are part of AEW's storylines and count towards the wrestlers' match statistics

**AEW Rampage**

* Running Time: 2 hours
* Day: Friday
* Commentators: Ian Riccaboni and Chris Jericho
* USA TV network: USA Network
* TV Parental Guidelines: TV-14
* Theme: "Rampage"
* **Began on August 13, 2021**
* Pre-PPV live Rampages should be. Make them special 3 hour event shows where they can have matches that didn't make it on the PPV card, press conference and weigh-in for the PPV matches

## Special episodes

### **United States**

TNT or TBS will be used if USA Network schedule clashes with AEW Dynamite or AEW Rampage.

## **International broadcasting rights**

PPVs exclusively on Peacock (unless stated otherwise)