AEW Signs New TV Deal with ESPN for Australia, New Zealand, & Pacific Islands

AEW announced that they have recently signed a new television deal with ESPN to air their weekly television shows and major pay-per-view events on their network for Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands markets.

Official press release:

ESPN to Broadcast All Elite Wrestling (AEW) Exclusively  in Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands 

— Partnership Includes Broadcast of all Weekly AEW Matches — 

February 9, 2023 – ESPN announced that it has secured exclusive broadcast rights to top  American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW), bringing its premium  matches and entertainment to ESPN subscribers in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands starting February 16.

This marks AEW’s first broadcast deal in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, and  ESPN’s first broadcast partnership with a professional wrestling organization in the region. AEW,  the new professional wrestling league taking the world by storm, is continuing its meteoric rise with record-high ratings, world-class roster and highly entertaining product.

Each week on ESPN, fans in the region can catch all the action on “AEW: DYNAMITE” on  Thursday AEDT, and “AEW: RAMPAGE” on Saturday AEDT, with same-day replays and episodes  made available on-demand. In addition, through ESPN, fans will have access to all of AEW’s  quarterly pay-per-view events on delay: REVOLUTION, DOUBLE OR NOTHING, ALL OUT and FULL  GEAR.

AEW’s star-studded roster includes Chris Jericho, Bryan Danielson, MJF, Jon Moxley, Jamie  Hayter, Saraya, Kenny Omega, Matt & Nick Jackson, Darby Allin, Sting, Orange Cassidy, Jade  Cargill, Dr. Britt Baker, Claudio Castagnoli, Adam Cole, The Acclaimed, Jungle Boy, Samoa Joe,  Athena, Toni Storm, Ricky Starks, Wardlow, Buddy Matthews, and Powerhouse Hobbs. Further  bolstering its global pop culture infiltration, AEW has launched impressive collections of video  games, action figures, trading cards, merchandise and more.

AEW will be available on ESPN in the following locations:

Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, Niue, Nauru, Vanuatu,  Kiribati, Northern Marianas, Tokelau, Tahiti, Tuvalu, New Caledonia, American Samoa, Marshall  Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, and Wallis and Futuna.