All Elite Wrestling has two major television shows, AEW Dynamite and AEW Collision. Recently, Dave Meltzer weighed in on Collision potentially changing its broadcast day. This move would be due to TNT having an opening in the schedule.
Dynamite has found a home on Wednesday nights and rarely gets preempted. Collision, however, regularly faces competition from WWE and other non-wrestling events on Saturday nights.
While speaking on the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Radio, F4WOnline.com’s Dave Meltzer shared that TNT Network does not want to go against NBC when it comes to wrestling shows. WWE’s Saturday Night’s Main Event had recently made its return and would be telecasted on the NBC network. Meltzer said it would make sense for Collision to air on Thursday nights, as TNT is set to lose the rights to the NBA.
“They are monitoring the situations when it comes to Saturdays with WWE major shows, in particular Saturday Night’s Main Event because TNT doesn’t want to go against a wrestling show on NBC, understandably so … perhaps pay-per-views as well, obviously they don’t want to go against WrestleMania and also that week there’s probably other commitments for TNT anyway.” Meltzer said.
“So I think that this may be a test, come very soon TNT is not going to have the NBA. This is the last season for the NBA and after that they have Thursday free year round and it would make a lot of sense to move Collision to Thursday. Thursday will draw bigger ratings, it’ll have far less sports competition, WWE doesn’t run on Thursday,” Dave Meltzer said. [H/T Wrestling Inc.]
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Do you think Collision should move to Thursdays? Or is it in a good spot on Saturdays?
