All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite

***All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite***, also known as ***AEW: Dynamite***, ***Wednesday Night Dynamite***, or simply ***Dynamite***, is a professional wrestling television program that is produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and airs on TNT in the United States. The show was debut on October 2, 2019 and served as the flagship program of AEW. The show airs live weekly, for two hours. It is the first professional wrestling show to air on TNT since the final episode of *WCW Monday Nitro* on March 26, 2001.

## History

From 1995 to 2001, TNT aired World Championship Wrestling's *Monday Nitro* to counterweight the then-World Wrestling Federation's (WWF, now WWE) *Monday Night Raw* program during the Monday Night Wars.

In November 2018, the soon to launch All Elite Wrestling (AEW) professional wrestling promotion filed for several trademarks, including Tuesday Night Dynamite, presumably a name for a television show; AEW itself was founded in January 2019. In June 2019, AEW filed an additional trademark for Wednesday Night Dynamite, leading to many sources believing the show would air on Wednesday nights under this name.

On May 8, 2019, AEW reached a new media rights deal with British media company ITV plc to broadcast AEW shows on ITV4. On May 15, 2019, AEW and WarnerMedia announced a deal for a weekly prime-time show airing live on TNT and would also stream live events and pay-per-views on B/R Live in the United States and Canada.

In April, Jim Ross confirmed the show would be a weekly two-hour live show. During Fight for the Fallen, Chris Jericho confirmed the show would be starting in October. On July 24, AEW announced the show would premiere on Wednesday, October 2, 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. AEW President Tony Khan said that they chose to air the show on Wednesday nights instead of Tuesday nights because TNT airs the National Basketball Association (NBA) on Tuesday nights, and it also prevented competition against the National Football League (NFL), which Khan is a part of.

In August 2019, WWE announced that it was moving their WWE Network show *NXT* to the USA Network and expanding the program to a live, two-hour broadcast in the same timeslot as AEW's upcoming show. *NXT* premiered on USA on September 18, two weeks before AEW's broadcast debut on TNT. On August 30, the day before All Out, TNT aired a one-hour special called *Countdown to All Out* at 10pm ET, which averaged 390,000 viewers.

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 TNT* 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 two-hour preview show called *Countdown to All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite* was also scheduled for October 1 at 8 PM.

On September 25, 2019, AEW announced an international streaming deal with FITE TV primarily for regions outside of North America via the "AEW Plus" package, which includes live streaming and replay access of *Dynamite* in simulcast with its U.S. airing. In Canada, TSN2 and TSN Direct acquired Canadian rights to *Dynamite*, in simulcast (subject to scheduling) with TNT. In the United Kingdom, *Dynamite* will be added to ITV Hub on Thursday evenings, and air on ITV4 on Friday nights.

## On-air personalities

### Commentators

* Jim Ross
* Tony Schiavone
* Excalibur

### Interviewers

* Chris Van Vliet
* Tony Schiavone

## External links

* All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite on Wikipedia