[SmashMan]

Quote: Originally Posted by dubcity

Was listening to Bryan Alvarez on the radio, and someone said AEW was not getting TV rights money, and he said something like, "yes, they are getting TV rights money. It's not gonna be as much as WWE, but they will be getting paid." Gee, no kidding. That's like saying I'll pay you to work for me. I won't be paying you 100k per year, but you will get paid. And then you end up making minimum wage. For some reason that annoyed me lol.

Sounds about right.

Quote: Originally Posted by UFCMPunk

So why now with a start up wrestling company no less, would Warner want to air wrassling all these years later? They wanted nothing to do with it after WCW so quite curious why they jump back in after all these years.

Because there are different people in charge who have different feelings on programming than the people who were there in a different time period who made a different choice?

tl;dr - different people make different decisions