Tony Khan Explains Why He Decided To Expand AEW's Pay-Per-View Providers

04/04/2024 07:57 PM

In recent months, All Elite Wrestling has expanded to offer its pay-per-view events on YouTube TV and TrillerTV+.

Speaking during Thursday’s media call for ROH Supercard of Honor, AEW President Tony Khan commented on the reasoning for the expansion, Friday’s Supercard of Honor pay-per-view event, and more.

You can check out some highlights from the media call below:

On expanding to other providers: "It's expanding our reach, and really excited about the opportunity to hopefully grow the audience. We've got so much great, really great pay-per-views here, and this show's available on WatchROH.com as a streaming special. For AEW, our pay-per-view providers, we've opened it up, working with more great streaming companies and different platforms and hopefully growing even more. It's amazing how much our pay-per-view audience and our pay-per-view revenue have expanded since we've grown, and I think we've built a reputation that AEW delivers great pay-per-view events, and it's helped us grow that audience year-over-year, where we keep having record years on pay-per-view, and 2023 was our biggest year yet by far, and I think 2024, we can be even bigger. We're off to a great start. We just did one of our biggest buy rates ever for Revolution, and we're coming up on AEW Dynasty. I do think something we've done really well is building a great, consistent pay-per-view audience. It's grown. We've expanded the calendar, and they've followed."

On Supercard of Honor: "Very excited about Supercard of Honor, which again, it's a very different delivery method here, and we've been able to grow that streaming service. WatchROH.com subscriptions this past year have grown to be bigger than ever," he continued. "We have more streaming subscribers than ever before in the history of the company, so this is the peak of ROH streaming, which is really saying something, I think. Very cool to be able to acquire the company, change it, and I'm very proud of where we are. We've built a great product in ROH, and really should be a great show at Supercard of Honor in Philadelphia."

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