AEW Leaving TNT for TBS and a New Hour of Programming

AEW Dynamite is moving to TBS starting in 2022.

All Elite Wrestling (AEW) co-owner and head booker Tony Khan appeared on the Sirus XM program Busted Open Radio to announce that AEW: Dynamite would not be appearing on TNT, the company’s original broadcast home since the fall of 2019, once the calendar turns to 2022. Instead, the young promotion will move its weekly two-hour Wednesday broadcast to TBS, the sister station of TNT.

The report was then confirmed by Fightful.com and Voices of Wrestling.

AEW is moving to TBS in 2022 and will add another hour of first-run content on TNT starting this August.

But that’s not where the news and excitement ended. Khan also announced that starting in August of this year, a third hour of AEW television titled Rampage will air on TNT at 10:00 p.m. and will premiere on Friday, August 13, bumping AEW’s original content total to three hours.

This seems to be AEW’s attempt to engage in direct competition with WWE again, as the companies secondary show SmackDown airs on Friday nights on FOX, or at the very least draw Smackdown fans to TNT for even more wrestling, as the show will start right after SmackDown goes off the air.

It was also announced that TNT will also air quarterly television specials in the vein of Clash of the Champions in WCW and Saturday Night’s Main Event in WWE, though it is unclear if these will be old IP such as Fyter Fest, Fight For the Fallen, and Blood and Guts or if they will be entirely new IP.