The Post’s Joseph Staszewski brings you around the world of professional wrestling every Tuesday in his weekly column, the Post Match AngleIt feels like a question that can be asked as the number of hours of wrestling on television continues to grow and grow.on TNT beginning June 17 will bring the combined weekly TV hours of WWE, NXT and AEW to 12 across five of the week’s seven days.
This column and the fact that I’ve made covering the industry part of my job provides me a little bit of cover and reason not to miss shows.Hopefully, others in the back half of the 18-49 demo will be so lucky and so driven. Those on the young side may have to glue themselves to screens even more than they already likely do with the expanded lineup of shows, movies and documentaries available to us now across many media platforms.
But AEW’s creative and storytelling ability is really going to be put to the test, having to come up with compelling TV over four primetime hours. A roster split could help and Rampage, because of its time slot, hopefully showcases more up-and-coming talent in fresh stories, like the YouTube Dark shows did. They should at least get strong ticket sales for the weekend show.
Whatever the case, two more hours of primetime wrestling is potentially going to create an even bigger viewing crunch for fans, forcing more decisions than ever. The quality of one’s product will become that much more important.Insult to Injury