Tony Khan Discusses ROH Death Before Dishonor Streaming Issues, Says He’s Eating ‘Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars’ By Giving One-Month Credit To HonorClub Subs

Khan speaks about the decision to make the show free.

As Ring of Honor Death Before Dishonor was ongoing, there was an issue with the service provider, Brightcove, and the show was not playing for users on Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.

AEW President Tony Khan opted to make the show free to watch on YouTube, and he also gave HonorClub members a free one-month credit for the inconvenience.

Khan was present at the post-Death Before Dishonor media scrum and spoke about the issues with the service provider and his decision to air the show on YouTube. He said he’s eating a lot of money by giving a one-month free credit to all HonorClub subscribers, but it’s fine. Khan said they’ll rectify it with Brightcove.

“Tonight, our streaming provider had issues only with browsers, and if anybody’s a fan, and if anybody’s affected by it, I didn’t wanna have anybody that’s not included so I made a decision in the chair in the back while the show was happening. I put the show up free worldwide on YouTube… And I’m gonna give everybody a one-month credit, all the current subscribers… Really everybody should be able to get that credit, and I heard it was only on certain browsers. At first, we thought it only was (Google) Chrome and Firefox, but then also, they said Microsoft Edge. So I said, ‘You know, if it’s affecting those people, everybody should be able to just watch it for free on YouTube’ and we’ll rectify it with the streaming provider, Brightcove, that was responsible… The show we delivered was fantastic, and then I think new fans must have seen it. It was a well-received choice. People thought it was a good thing to do, and you know, that’s a lot of money — a month of subscriptions — I’m not gonna lie to you. We have thousands of thousands of subscribers. That’s hundreds of thousands of dollars that I’m gonna eat with a month subscription but it’s okay, because we made new fans. I’ll rectify it with the people responsible on the other end and the fans got a great show tonight and it seemed like almost unanimously positive response on social media… “

Death Before Dishonor took place at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. AEW is doing a residency at the venue through September 11th.

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