TV Guide Breaks Down The ‘Wednesday Night Wars’: ‘McMahon Isn’t Taking Any Chances’ Cory Barker of TV Guide has a heavy feature piece on the upcoming battle between All Elite Wrestling and WWE as the two promotions make their presence known in primetime television at the beginning of October. Barker runs down all of the context for how the battle came to be and writes on WWE’s recent low ratings drop as well as the hill that AEW has to climb to carve their name in an ever-changing television viewing landscape. Some select sections of the article are below: “The most compelling storyline of the fall TV season is happening inside the squared circle: A pair of pro wrestling companies are about to engage in an old-fashioned timeslot battle that is nearly two decades in the making. “When TNT announced over the summer that upstart outfit All Elite Wrestling (AEW) would air a two-hour prime-time show every Wednesday beginning Oct. 2, it made huge news in the wrestling community. While t..
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