Tony Khan on Warner Bros Discovery Splitting Into Two Companies & AEW Has Great Relationships with Both Sides

As noted before, Warner Bros Discovery will be splitting into two separate companies in 2026. This quickly led to online speculation and rumors over AEW’s future with WBD and potential impact for their current media rights deal and future deals.

Yahoo Finance held a recent interview with AEW CEO Tony Khan. One of the topics discussed included Khan’s thoughts about WBD’s upcoming split into two separate companies and what it means for AEW’s rights deal with them.

“That’s a great question. I know that AEW, for both sides of where Warner Bros. is going, we have great relationships with everybody at the top. Both on Global Networks and Streaming & Studios. Mr. Zaslav himself put our deal together. Gunnar (Wiedenfels), who will be running Global Networks, also was very involved in our deal as the CFO. The two of them and Bruce Campbell really negotiated this deal with AEW and myself and my team. So, on both sides, we’ve got the great relationships and both sides that really love AEW and have come to be great partners with AEW. So, for us, it’s been a big year in 2025 and now we’re kind of on both sides of that equation. We are a big part of TBS and TNT, the crown jewels of the Global Network side and then we’re also a huge — now — part of Streaming & Studios with AEW streaming every week so it’s exciting.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com