Kemo
10-12-2023, 08:10 PM
WWE Raw has aired on Monday nights for over 30 years, but the company would have no problem moving the show to a different night.
On Wednesday, TKO Group/Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel appeared at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles, CA for a lengthy discussion about sports media. They spoke about a wide variety of topics, including what the future looks like for the UFC and WWE.
TKO Group recently closed on a 5-year media rights deal with NBCUniversal that will bring SmackDown back to the USA Network in October 2024.
TKO is currently shopping around Raw and NXT and WWE executives have stated on multiple occasions that they're 'open for business' and there's strong interest from all sorts of media companies, both traditional and streaming.
We might even see WWE Raw, NXT and content from the UFC packaged together:
While speaking about the future of WWE Raw, Emanuel said "we're flexible" and he'd have no problem moving Raw to Tuesdays or Thursdays, if the best media rights deal called for such a change.
“We’re 52 weeks a year, right? We’re flexible. You want us Thursday night? You want us Tuesday night? I don’t have any of those scheduling issues."
He added that there's "there’s plenty of interest in Raw right now, a sentiment we've heard from WWE President Nick Khan in recent months.
It sounds crazy, but things are so uncertain at this point, that we could very well see 'Tuesday Night Raw streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video' or 'Thursday Night Raw on ESPN+' come November 2024.
On Wednesday, TKO Group/Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel appeared at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles, CA for a lengthy discussion about sports media. They spoke about a wide variety of topics, including what the future looks like for the UFC and WWE.
TKO Group recently closed on a 5-year media rights deal with NBCUniversal that will bring SmackDown back to the USA Network in October 2024.
TKO is currently shopping around Raw and NXT and WWE executives have stated on multiple occasions that they're 'open for business' and there's strong interest from all sorts of media companies, both traditional and streaming.
We might even see WWE Raw, NXT and content from the UFC packaged together:
While speaking about the future of WWE Raw, Emanuel said "we're flexible" and he'd have no problem moving Raw to Tuesdays or Thursdays, if the best media rights deal called for such a change.
“We’re 52 weeks a year, right? We’re flexible. You want us Thursday night? You want us Tuesday night? I don’t have any of those scheduling issues."
He added that there's "there’s plenty of interest in Raw right now, a sentiment we've heard from WWE President Nick Khan in recent months.
It sounds crazy, but things are so uncertain at this point, that we could very well see 'Tuesday Night Raw streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video' or 'Thursday Night Raw on ESPN+' come November 2024.