Dave Meltzer covered the latest updates on WWE Raw TV rights negotiations in today's Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Paul "Triple H" Levesque and Nick Khan were in Los Angeles this week trying to finalize a deal for the show and were not at Monday's Raw in Nashville. During most of the negotiation period, FX has been seen as the favorite to land the show. However, Netflix, USA, Warner Bros. Discover (WBD), and Amazon Prime have all been talked about as well.
In today's newsletter, Meltzer wrote that Khan met with WBD in October about Raw possibly going to TNT or TBS, the current homes of AEW programming.
Meltzer wrote:
Regarding WBD which would be the game changer in many ways if it happened, the WBD version told to many this past week is that Nick Khan last went to WBD in October with a pitch and was turned down. There’s always the caveat that because of the AEW relationship that a surprise could happen, but it’s one of those things where those in WBD have privately said there’s nothing to the idea TBS or TNT it is the destination for the show to a number of people in recent days.
Those in WWE constantly had WBD has a longshot for the reason they believed WBD owned a percentage of AEW.
WWE is hoping to receive $400 million per year for the rights to air Raw but analysts believe the number will be closer to $387 million. In a deal announced in September, WWE will receive $287 million per year for the USA Network to air SmackDown beginning in October 2024.
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