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While we wait to see if NBC is still in play, they just shilled out big buck for WWE Smackdown. Smackdown will air Friday nights on USA network, so we could forget about Friday night games USA going forward. This doesn't necessarily mean NBC is out of the spring football picture, but it is a sizable chunk of money for a much more established product.

https://frontofficesports.com/nbc-inks- ... %20Billion

laxtreme56 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:17 pm While we wait to see if NBC is still in play, they just shilled out big buck for WWE Smackdown. Smackdown will air Friday nights on USA network, so we could forget about Friday night games USA going forward. This doesn't necessarily mean NBC is out of the spring football picture, but it is a sizable chunk of money for a much more established product.

https://frontofficesports.com/nbc-inks- ... %20Billion

Thx for posting - this is HUGE news. NBC is not bailing on cable/linear TV. Already has RAW now Smackdown... ! Whoa! How does Fox fill Friday nights? USXFL?

Actually barring a late 180 RAW and NXT will be on the move (RAW is anyone's guess NXT probably goes back to streaming a la when it was WWE Network exclusive)

4th&long wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 9:20 pm

laxtreme56 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:17 pm While we wait to see if NBC is still in play, they just shilled out big buck for WWE Smackdown. Smackdown will air Friday nights on USA network, so we could forget about Friday night games USA going forward. This doesn't necessarily mean NBC is out of the spring football picture, but it is a sizable chunk of money for a much more established product.

https://frontofficesports.com/nbc-inks- ... %20Billion

Thx for posting - this is HUGE news. NBC is not bailing on cable/linear TV. Already has RAW now Smackdown... ! Whoa! How does Fox fill Friday nights? USXFL?

Easy, another Gordon Ramsay show, he only has about ten

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/wwe ... p_catchall

Smackdown will return to USA a bit earlier (9/13) to clear FOX to kick off their Friday night football schedule with Arizona/K-State (a non-conf game even though both teams are now Big XII rivals) and spare WWE from riding out the FOX SD era with low-rated eps on FS1.

RAW will also be on USA for the rest of the year, and I believe (it's not mentioned in the piece) that USA will have all three shows for a few weeks before NXT moves to CW in October.

And that's it for the WWE on FOX, they'll now own 3.5% of USA's programming for the next three weeks.