In a recent interview with The Battleground Podcast, All Elite Wrestling President Tony Khan discussed several topics, including All Elite Wrestling’s current TV rights negotiations talks with WBD, and how close the sides are to getting a deal done.

“Such an exciting time for AEW, we’re in great conversations with our partners at Warner Bros. Discovery, it’s a real blessing to me, and I think to everyone in AEW that we’re able to put wrestling on TBS and TNT every week.

When I grew up, and I think for you guys too growing up, wrestling on TBS and TNT was a big part of our childhoods, there was no wrestling on TNT for about 18 years, and there was no wrestling on TBS for over 20 years, so it meant a lot to bring that back. In particular on TBS, that tradition goes back over 50 years.

I love it here, and so we’re having great talks. It means the world to be able to do this, we’re in very deep, exciting conversations, there’s a lot to figure out, because we have these great shows with AEW Dynamite, AEW Rampage and AEW Collision. Our prime time shows, we’ve been doing great, great ratings with our flagship shows, and it’s a really exciting time.

Like I said this past week, both shows did their biggest numbers in months, so it’s an exciting time for us to hit new highs. The conversations are awesome right now, there’s a lot to figure out with the AEW TV shows, our pay-per-view content, our streaming library and all of these things, so it’s a lot of very complex conversations, but they’ve been great and we’re having great talks with Warner Bros. Discovery now, and it’s a great partnership and we’re very fortunate to be here and it’s a great place, for wrestling in particular, TBS and TNT.”

The full interview is available at this link.