AEW’s new media rights deal with Warner Bros. Discovery begins January 1, 2025.

Here’s the press release sent out today about how fans can stay up to date with AEW content on cable and streaming service Max:

“Warner Bros. Discovery and All Elite Wrestling (AEW) today announced details of the start of their new multiplatform media rights agreement, which will give fans the most comprehensive access ever to AEW’s most popular programming.

Beginning Wednesday, January 1, 2025, WBD’s networks and platforms will remain the exclusive home of AEW Dynamite (Wednesdays on TBS) and AEW Collision (Saturdays on TNT) and will also stream these programs live to Max subscribers for the first time the USA

WBD and AEW will ring in the new year and new agreement with AEW Dynamite: Fight for the Fallen on TBS & Max on Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. ET from Asheville, North Carolina. Fans will witness the aftermath of AEW’s doomsday at a special New Year’s event benefiting victims of Hurricane Helene, which severely impacted the Asheville area in September 2024.

On Saturday, January 4th at 8 p.m., TNT and Max bring the high-octane action with AEW Collision, live from Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.

All live AEW programming that airs on WBD’s networks will also be available to stream on Max and On Demand following the live broadcast. Additionally, AEW Dynamite, AEW Collision, AEW Rampage and all AEW pay-per-view library content through the end of 2024, representing more than 700 hours of AEW action, will be available on Max on an ongoing basis. At launch, all AEW Dynamite episodes and pay-per-views from the company’s first year in 2019 will be available, as well as more than two months of the most recent AEW programming that aired on the WBD networks (select episodes will be short). be available afterwards). Start).

As previously announced, AEW and WBD will also work together to distribute AEW live pay-per-view events on Max, with all marketing and promotion of these PPV events focused solely on Max. AEW PPV distribution on Max will begin later in 2025. Further information and pricing will be announced in the coming months.”

We already knew that new episodes of Dynamite and Collision would be simulcast on the Max streaming service, so I was more interested in what the press release said about AEW’s Max content archive.

The press release states that AEW’s 2019 video library will be available on Max at launch. The first episode of Dynamite took place in October 2019, so that doesn’t cover much. The launch phase will also include some of the current AEW programs from the last few months. The rest of the library will be added on an “ongoing basis.”

Finally, the press release offers no indication of when AEW’s live pay-per-view events will air on Max, other than to say it will be sometime in 2025.

Do you plan on watching AEW content on Max in 2025? Let me know in the comments below, Cagesiders.