WWE NXT Is Leaving USA Network for The CW — Find Out When!
WWE NXT is headed to broadcast television for the first time in its 13-year history.
The weekly show, which features WWE’s rising stars, will move from its current home on USA Network to The CW in a five-year agreement, The CW announced on Tuesday. NXT will begin airing on the CW in October 2024.
“We are thrilled to welcome the WWE brand into the CW Sports portfolio as they play an integral role in our mission to bring live sporting events to the network year-round,” CW President Dennis Miller said in a statement. “WWE NXT is a perfect fit for The CW thanks to its dynamic young talent featuring the hottest rising stars in the sport and exhilarating, unpredictable weekly events. The passion and engagement of WWE’s fanbase is unmatched, and we are eager to grow that audience as WWE NXT’s new home on broadcast television.”
WWE President Nick Khan added, “The CW has made impressive moves over the past year with its live sports programming schedule. It’s a truly exciting opportunity to expand NXT’s audience by bringing the show to broadcast television for the first time in NXT’s history.”
Former WWE Champion and current Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque founded NXT in 2012 to help launch the superstars of tomorrow. Notable graduates include Seth Rollins, Finn Bàlor, Sasha Banks, Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, Bayley, Street Profits, Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, The Wyatt Family, current AEW wrestlers Adam Cole and Samoa Joe, and the tag team Imperium.
This comes after it was previously reported that SmackDown will return to USA Network in October 2024 following its five-year stint on Fox. This was part of WWE’s new deal with NBCUniversal, which also includes producing four annual specials for NBC — the first time that WWE content will air as part of NBC’s primetime slate.
How do you feel about WWE NXT moving to The CW? Do you think it will help or hurt the ratings? Sound off below!
So they are going to spend millions of dollars on this garbage instead of producing good series and not canceling them? Has no sense
It actually makes a lot of sense. It’s a known quantity, its popular, draws money, and has been around for decades. It’s a no brainer for the CW because it has a large built in audience.
And they just pay for the rights to air it. They don’t pay the wrestlers, production crew, etc as they would the cast and crew of a TV show. The cost of actually making the show is WWE’s responsibility.
Plus, live TV events command higher ad rates. Because they’re live. Catnip for advertisers.
It’s a known fact that the NXT show has been losing money for WWE since it began. Your “it draws money” nonsense is exactly that.
It draws money in ad revenue to the network- that’s what I meant. Let me guess- you’re a big AEW fan?
Welcome back to The CW, WWE.
Billy Corgan really shot himself in the foot with that cocaine spot on the most recent nwa ppv for the cw to go with a different wrestling promotion.