According to reports, WWE SmackDown won’t be moving days.
On September 21, WWE announced that SmackDown would be moving to the USA Network this fall after five years on Fox. The deal is set to come into effect from this October and we now know more about whether SmackDown will stick to its Friday time slot when it emanates from its new home in just eight months.
Per Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, it’s believed that the blue brand will remain in its current spot past October 2024 when ‘Friday Night SmackDown’ arrives on USA.
“The last time I talked with somebody with WWE on that discussion, they told me outright that nothing’s official. The stations are gonna have to all work this out whenever. But, the plan was, as of right now’ which I would say was about a month ago I’m gonna guess, is that SmackDown would be Friday. I don’t know why you would do that. If you’re USA it feels utterly stupid to do SmackDown on Friday. But that was the plan as of a month ago, was for SmackDown to stay on Friday. And be called ‘Friday Night SmackDown’.”
-Dave Meltzer
In recent times, WWE have renegotiated the rights to all three of their weekly shows. Along with SmackDown’s arrival on USA, NXT will air on the CW Network while Raw is subject to a stunning deal with Netflix worth $5 billion over 10 years.
As always, we’ll aim to provide any further updates on SmackDown’s move to the USA Network as soon as we hear more.
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