World Wrestling Entertainment programs

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Contents 1 Television and webcasts 2 International broadcasting 2.1 Australia 2.2 Canada 2.3 Costa Rica 2.4 Peru 2.5 South America 2.6 Puerto Rico 2.7 Philippines 2.8 Southern Africa 2.9 South Asia 2.10 United Kingdom 2.11 United States 2.12 Former programming 3 WWE Films 4 WWE 24/7 5 Pay-per-view 6 See also 7 Reference

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has a wide range of shows all over the world. From television, films, online, video on demand and pay-per-view's.

[edit] Television and webcasts

WWE currently runs with three major shows on television, each featuring a different brand. They are: Raw, Friday Night SmackDown!, & ECW, as well as a secondary show called Heat. WWE also airs recap shows; A.M. Raw, The WWE Experience, Bottom Line and Afterburn. A supercard show called Saturday Night's Main Event, is also occasionally shown.

Since WWE's departure from Spike TV in the United States, WWE has restationed Heat on their website as a webcast, while overseas it is still shown as a regular television program. The latest episode of Heat is put up on WWE.com every Friday afternoon. WWE also webcasts Byte This!, a call in/interview show, though that show is currently on hiatus for retooling.

World Wrestling Entertainment has had a large Web presence for years. In 1996 it was nominated for a "Streaming Media Award" and in 1999 for its online content.

• The Four Main WWE Programs
  • Raw
  • Friday Night SmackDown!
  • ECW
  • WWE Heat
• Current WWE Re-Cap Shows
  • The WWE Experience
  • A.M. Raw
  • WWE Bottom Line
  • WWE Afterburn

[edit] International broadcasting

[edit] Australia

FOX8 is currently the only network to air all televised shows in Australia. Times for programmes are as follows and are in EST:

• Raw - Wednesdays at 3:30pm, replayed Saturdays 12:00pm
• SmackDown! - Fridays at 3:30pm, replayed Sundays at 12:00pm
• ECW - Saturdays at 2:00pm
• Heat - Sundays at 2:00pm
• The WWE Experience - Saturdays at 3:00pm
• Saturday Night's Main Event, (when available), airs the Monday after taping at 3:30pm
  • Note: all programs are aired 2 hours later on FOX8+2.

[edit] Canada

• WWE Raw - Mondays on The Score at 10pm ET, replayed Tuesdays at 12:30am and 3:30pm
• WWE SmackDown! - Fridays on The Score at 8pm ET, replayed at 12:00am
• WWE ECW - Fridays on Global at 12am, replayed Saturdays at 1PM and 9PM and Sundays at 1AM on X-Treme Sports
• The WWE Experience (separate show from The WWE Experience)- Sundays on The Score at 6PM

[edit] Costa Rica

WWE Programming shows on FX Latin America are not scheduled here, Raw and SmackDown! airs trough national aircasting station Repretel Canal 11 (Repretel channel 11)

• WWE Raw - Saturdays at 6:00pm
• WWE SmackDown! - Sundays at 6:00pm
• WWE PPV's - PPV's are aired Saturday or Sunday's night at 6:00PM, according to the relative position of the particular PPV to the other two shows aired. The respective Raw or SmackDown! chapter is aired right after the PPV.

[edit] Peru

WWE Programming shows on FX Latin America and ATV Andina de Radio Difusión in Peru.

• WWE Raw - Saturdays on ATV at 6:00pm
• WWE SmackDown! - Saturdays on ATV at 7:00pm, and at 9:00pm when Saturday Night's Main Event is held.
• WWE ECW - Sundays on FX Latin America 7:00pm, replays Wednesdays at 7:00pm.
• Pay-Per-View Events - Saturdays on ATV at 8:00pm.
• Saturdays Night's Main Event - When it is available, it airs at Saturdays on ATV at 7:00pm.
• WWE Experience (not The WWE Experience) - Sundays on FX Latin America 8:00pm, replays Thursdays at 7:00pm.

[edit] South America

WWE programming on Brazil is shown on FX Latin America.

• ECW - Saturdays on FX at 9PM Brazilian Time
• The WWE Experience - Wednesdays on FX at 6PM or 11PM Brazilian Time

[edit] Puerto Rico

• SmackDown! - Sundays on is shown on WAPA-TV at 10:00pm AST
• Raw -Mondays on Cablevision, Adelphia, Centennial at 9:00 pm AST.
• ECW on Sci-Fi -Tuesdays on Cablevision, Adelphia, Centennial at 10:00 pm AST
• WWE A.M. Raw -Saturdays on Cablevision, Adelphia, Centennial at 9:00 am AST

[edit] Philippines

In the Philippines, WWE programming is shown on Jack TV, RPN 9 & Solar Sports. All times are in PST

• Raw - Saturdays at 8pm on Jack TV, 8pm on RPN 9
• SmackDown! - Sundays at 8pm on Jack TV, 7pm on RPN 9
• ECW - Wednesdays at 8pm on Solar Sports
• Heat - Fridays at 7pm on Jack TV
• Afterburn - Wednesdays at 7pm on Jack TV
• Bottom Line - Tuesdays at 7pm on Jack TV
• The WWE Experience - Sunday at 6pm on RPN 9

[edit] Southern Africa

• Raw - Sundays, etv at 5pm SAST
• SmackDown! - Wednesdays, etv at 8.30pm SAST
• ECW - Saturdays, etv at 5pm SAST
• Bottom Line - Saturdays, 12pm on Supersport 2 SAST
• Afterburn - Wednesdays, 9.30pm on Supersport 2 SAST
• Pay Per View Events - Sundays at 5pm or 6.30pm on Supersport, and replayed Monday morning at 6am on M-Net SAST

[edit] South Asia

TEN Sports airs WWE programs in South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Bhutan, etc.

• Raw - Monday at 5pm IST, replayed on Mondays at 10:30pm and Tuesdays at 8:00am.
• SmackDown! - Tuesdays at 5pm IST, and replayed on Tuesdays at 10:30pm and Wednesdays at 8:00am.
• ECW - Fridays at 11:00pm IST, and replayed on Saturdays at 10:00pm.
• Heat - Sundays at 5pm IST, and replayed on Sundays at 10:30pm and Mondays at 8:00am.
• Afterburn - Wednesdays at 5pm IST, and replayed on Wednesdays at 10:30pm and on Thursdays at 8:00am.
• Bottom Line - Thursdays at 5pm IST, and is replayed on Thursdays at 10:30pm and on Fridays at 8:00am.
• The WWE Experience - Saturdays at 5pm IST, and replayed on Saturdays at 11:00pm and on Sundays 8:00am.
• Pay-Per-View Events - Sundays at scheduled time, replayed Mondays at scheduled time.

[edit] United Kingdom

With the exception of WWE Experience, all of WWE's programmes are shown on Sky Sports 3.

• Raw - Tuesdays at 2am BST, replayed Thursdays at 9pm and Fridays at 5pm.
• SmackDown! - Fridays at 10pm, replayed on Saturdays at 10am, 5pm and 11pm.
• ECW - Thursdays at 11pm replay on Sunday 10pm.
• Heat - Sundays at 10am and 11pm.
• Afterburn - Sundays at 8am and 9pm: the UK sees two versions with differing content; a daytime version and a "late night" version.
• Bottom Line - Saturday at 12am and 12pm: like Afterburn, the UK sees two versions with differing content; a daytime version and a "late night" version.
• The WWE Experience - Sundays at 11am, Sky One and a Sunday afternoon repeat.
• Saturday Night's Main Event - Sky Sports 1.

[edit] United States

• Raw - Mondays on USA Network at 9pm, Wednesdays on mun2 at 8PM & Sundays at 2PM, Sundays at 4PM on Telemundo ET
• Friday Night SmackDown! - Fridays on The CW and Intercontinental Television (ITV) at 8pm
• ECW - Tuesdays on Sci Fi Channel at 10pm.
• A.M. RAW - Sundays on USA Network at 2AM
• Saturday Night's Main Event, when held, is shown on Saturday night on NBC at 8pm
• Madison Square Garden Classics, - Wednesdays on MSG Networks at 8PM and 9PM.

[edit] Former programming

Television

WWF Action Zone WWF All American Wrestling WWF All-Star Wrestling WWF Blastoff WWF Canadian Challenge WWWF Championship Wrestling WWE Confidential WWF Excess WWF Free For All WWF Friday Night's Main Event WWE Jakked/Metal WWF LiveWire WWF Mania

WWF Primetime Wrestling WWF Saturday Night WWF Shotgun Saturday Night WWF Spotlight WWF Sunday Night Slam WWF Super Astros WWF Superstars of Wrestling WWF The Main Event Tough Enough Tuesday Night Titans WWE Velocity WCW Monday Nitro (March 26, 2001 series finale only) WWF Wrestling Challenge

Webcasts

• WWE Unlimited
• WWE Velocity

[edit] WWE Films

Main article: WWE Films

Since 2003, WWE has produced its own film productions. Instead of focusing on wrestling movies, WWE produces movies that are non-wrestling related. WWE and Vince McMahon were credited for production of the films The Scorpion King, The Rundown and Walking Tall all starring The Rock (Dwayne Johnson).

WWE Films has since ventured in on their own, releasing, See No Evil, a horror movie, starring Kane and also The Marine, an action movie starring John Cena. WWE has also noted that Steve Austin has agreed to star in three movie deals, the first being The Condemned.

[edit] WWE 24/7

Main article: WWE 24/7

In 2004, WWE announced a new video on demand service for digital cable users, allowing subscribers to the service access to matches in the promotion's extensive video library. The programming is broken into six sections and features classic shows, matches, and features highlighting legends of wrestling.

• The Big Ones
  • Classic pay-per-views and supershows.

• Hall of Fame
  • Documentaries on Hall of Fame wrestlers.
  • Matches featuring the wrestler of the month.

• Primetime
  • Monday Night Wars (full episodes of both Monday Night Raw and WCW Monday Night Nitro.)
  • Episodes of past WWF/E shows.

• Shorties
  • Matches and memorable moments centered around the months theme.

• Specials
  • Documentaries and retrospectives.

• Territories - ECW
  • Full shows from the territory days of wrestling.
  • History of Extreme Championship Wrestling.

[edit] Pay-per-view

Main article: List of WWE pay-per-view events

WWE is currently one of the leaders in pay-per-view content for cable and satellite television. Pay-per-views account for approximately 25% of WWE revenues. There are 16 live shows for North America, 4 for United Kingdom, 4 for Australia and 2 for Japan. The pay-per-view events WWE hold currently are:

• Royal Rumble
• New Year's Revolution
• No Way Out
• WrestleMania
• Backlash
• Judgment Day
• One Night Stand
• Vengeance
• The Great American Bash
• SummerSlam
• Unforgiven
• No Mercy
• Cyber Sunday
• Survivor Series
• December to Dismember
• Armageddon

[edit] See also

• World Wrestling Entertainment Ratings
• WWE Video Library

[edit] Reference

• WWE.com - Television programming