This basically kills WWE in the UK. They’ve been kicked off Sky, and have never really done well viewership wise. TNA was more popular than WWE in the UK.
ITV4 is a channel everyone has.
WON: AEW will air on ITV4 in the UK
Charles Edwards
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Joseph Nguyen
ITV4 is pretty trash. You really want the real ITV channel that everyone has.
Samuel Gomez
>ITV4
>kills
COPE
Christian Turner
It's a quaint Meltzer spin but the channel WWE is being moved to is still available to all Sky viewers on top of the new ones so it actually increases their reach
Oliver Evans
UK Chad here.
NOBODY watches ITV4
People watch ITV and ITV 2.
Nobody watches ITV 3 or 4.
Blake Jones
Imagine celebrating being on ITV4 OH NO NO NO NO NO AEWtists are denser than previously expected.
Ryder Reyes
Kek what? Sky is payTV. How does that increase their reach?
Gavin Clark
Wrestling has always been butchered in the UK.
When Channel five aired WCW, they removed all the promos and skits. Instead, they merged Nitro and Thunder into one heavily edited format. Later into the deals run with five, they censored weapon hits with Batman inspired captions.
Whereas when Channel 4 aired Heat, they slotted it right after the Italian Football. Sure it was watched, but it was fucking Heat. You can only indulge so much Al Snow.
TNA had the best run when on Challenge, but Sky did everything in its power to ensure that show remained small. Constantly moving it's time slot around, misadvertising events. Least PPV's where free.
In the UK, the only way you can get your wrestling fed to a broad audience now is to accept a Freeview deal. ITV4 (AEW) and Five Star (iMPACT) are just the start. Don't be shocked if NXT UK ends up on E4 or something counterproductive like Dave, BLAZE or QUEST.
Brayden Ross
Sky TV is pay TV, and if WWE is going to BT they have to pay extra for that too.
Champions League gets less than 1 million and that's biggest games shown at prime time. WWE could easily get less than 50k on BT.
AEW even on ITV4 reaches every TV in the country, and could beat WWE on BT
Jayden Brown
nobody watches ITV4