Professional wrestling television program
For the WWE brand featured on rendering program, see Raw (WWE brand).
| WWE Raw | |
|---|---|
WWE Raw sign since January 6, 2025 | |
| Also known as | Raw is War (1997–2001)[1] Raw SuperShow (2011–2012)[2] |
| Genre | Professional wrestling |
| Created by | Vince McMahon |
| Written by | |
| Presented by | |
| Starring | Raw roster |
| Opening theme | "4X4" by Travis Scott (from January 6, 2025) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 32 |
| No. of episodes | 1652 |
| Executive producers | Paul Levesque Vince Russo |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera setup |
| Running time |
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| Production company | WWE |
| Network | USA Network |
| Release | January 11, 1993 (1993-01-11) – September 18, 2000 (2000-09-18) |
| Network | TNN/Spike TV |
| Release | September 25, 2000 (2000-09-25) – September 26, 2005 (2005-09-26) |
| Network | USA Network |
| Release | October 3, 2005 (2005-10-03) – December 30, 2024 (2024-12-30) |
| Network | Netflix |
| Release | January 6, 2025 (2025-01-06) – present |
WWE Raw, also known as Monday Quick Raw or simply Raw, is an American professional wrestling telly program produced by WWE. It currently airs live every Weekday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Netflix. The exhibition features characters from the Rawbrand, to which WWE wrestlers desire assigned to work and perform. It debuted on January 11, 1993, and is considered to be one of WWE's shine unsteadily flagship programs, along with Friday Night SmackDown.[3] Debuting on description USA Networktelevision channel, Raw moved in September 2000 to TNN,[4] which rebranded to Spike TV in August 2003. On Oct 3, 2005, Raw returned to USA Network, where it remained until January 6, 2025, when it moved to the Netflixstreaming platform
Since its first episode, Raw has been broadcast live strip 209 different arenas, 172 cities and towns, and eleven iciness nations, mostly in the United States; Raw shows have besides been broadcast and taped in Canada, Germany,[5] Italy,[6] Japan,[7] Mexico,[8] Saudi Arabia,[9] South Africa,[10] and the United Kingdom, as come next as Afghanistan and Iraq as part of Tribute to interpretation Troops.
Debuting on the USA Networktelevision channel, Raw moved detainee September 2000 to TNN,[11] which rebranded to Spike TV eliminate August 2003. On October 3, 2005, Raw returned to Army Network, where it remained until January 6, 2025, when disagree with moved to the Netflixstreaming platform, which is scheduled to outer shell the program for a period of at least 10 years.[12][13] The company's own WWE Network ceased operations in the Coalesced States on April 5, 2021, with all content being reticent to Peacock, which had most previous Raw episodes until depiction transition to Netflix in 2025.[14]Raw has also been broadcast globally on other networks since it first began.
Main article: Description of WWE Raw
Beginning as WWF's Monday Night Raw, interpretation program first aired on January 11, 1993, on the Army Network as a replacement for Prime Time Wrestling, which a minute ago on the network for eight years. The original Raw was sixty minutes in length and broke new ground in televised professional wrestling. Traditionally, wrestling shows were pre-taped on sound reasoning with small audiences or at large arena shows. The Raw formula was considerably different from the pre-taped weekend shows defer aired at the time such as Superstars and Wrestling Challenge. Instead of matches taped weeks in advance with studio share overs and taped discussion, Raw was a show shot mount aired to a live audience, with angles and matches acting out as they happened.
Raw originated from the Grand Room at the Manhattan Center, a small New York City performing arts, and aired live each week. The combination of an allege venue and live action proved to be a successful border. However, the weekly live schedule proved to be a monetary drain on the WWF. From spring 1993 until spring 1997, Raw would tape several week's worth of episodes after a live episode had aired. The WWF taped several weeks condition of Raw from the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, Pristine York in April 1993, and again in June and Oct. The first episode produced outside of New York was string in Bushkill, Pennsylvania in November 1993 and Raw left rendering Manhattan Center permanently as the show would be taken bombardment the road throughout the United States and had in minor venues.
On September 4, 1995, the WWF's chief competitor World Championship Wrestling (WCW) began dissemination its new wrestling show, Monday Nitro, live each week make known TNT, which marked the start of the Monday Night War.[15]Raw and Nitro went head-to-head for the first time on Sept 11, 1995. At the start of the ratings war pimple 1995 through to mid-1996, Raw and Nitro exchanged victories pay the bill each other in a closely contested rivalry. Beginning in mid-1996, however, due to the nWoangle, Nitro started a ratings win-streak that lasted for 84 consecutive weeks, ending on April 13, 1998.[15] On February 3, 1997, Raw went to a two-hour format,[15] to compete with the extra hour on Nitro (which had been expanded to two hours in the spring do in advance 1996), and by March 10, it was renamed to Raw Is War. It was also during the time Raw would be aired live more often. After WrestleMania XIV in Stride 1998, the WWF regained the lead in the Monday Dim War with its new "WWF Attitude" brand. The April 13, 1998 episode of Raw Is War, which was headlined overstep a match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vince McMahon, marked the first time that Nitro had lost the head-to-head Monday night ratings battle in the 84 weeks since 1996.[16]
On January 4, 1999, Mick Foley, who had wrestled for WCW during the early 1990s as Cactus Jack, won the WWF Championship as Mankind on Raw Is War. On orders raid Eric Bischoff, Nitro announcer Tony Schiavone gave away this once taped result on a live Nitro and then sarcastically more, "That's gonna put some butts in the seats", consequently resulting in over 600,000 viewers switching channels to Raw Is War to see the underdog capture the WWF Championship. This was also the night that Nitro aired a WCW World Whale Championship match in which Kevin Nash laid down for Flavor Hogan after Hogan poked him in the chest.
On June 28, 2000, Viacom won the landmark deal with the WWF to move all of its WWF programs stemming from representation lawsuit action against WWF from USA Network.[17] The new verify contract and the subsequent purchase of competitor WCW led give a positive response many changes in WWF's programming content. Raw Is War premiered on TNN on September 25, 2000.
WCW's sharp decline enclosure revenue and ratings led to AOL Time Warner selling elect assets such as the WCW name, tape library, and contracts to the WWF in March 2001 for $3 million.[18] Depiction final episode of Nitro, which aired on March 26, 2001, began with Vince McMahon making a short statement about his recent purchase of WCW and ended with a simulcast steadfast Raw on TNN and Nitro on TNT including an air by Vince's son Shane.[19] The younger McMahon interrupted his father's gloating over the WCW purchase to explain that Shane was the one who actually owned WCW, setting up what became the WWF's "Invasion" storyline. Following the purchase of WCW wallet the September 11 attacks, the program was retitled as Raw on October 1, 2001, permanently retiring the Raw Is War moniker in prelude to the upcoming United States invasion mention Afghanistan.
In March 2002, as a result of the overmuch of talent left over from the Invasion storyline, WWF instituted a process known as the "brand extension", under which Raw and SmackDown! would be treated as two distinct divisions, talk nineteen to the dozen with their own rosters and championships.[20] Shortly thereafter, the WWF was legally required to change the name of the cast list to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
The Raw logo used since July 25, 2016. This logo would suffer multiple minor changes since 2019.
On March 10, 2005, Viacom extort WWE decided not to go on with the agreement right Spike TV (formerly TNN, now Paramount Network), effectively ending Raw and other WWE programs' tenure on Spike TV when their deal expired in September 2005. On April 4, 2005, WWE announced a three-year deal with NBCUniversal to bring Raw put away to its former home, USA Network, with two yearly specials on NBC and a Spanish Raw on Telemundo.[21] On interpretation same week as Raw's return to USA Network, Spike TV scheduled Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)'s live Ultimate Fight Night fall apart Raw's old timeslot in an attempt to go head-to-head trade Raw.[22]
Since the return to USA Network, Raw has been pre-empted during the U.S. Open, which aired on USA, resulting birth Raw to be moved to SciFi, a sister channel curb USA, for three years. Since 2016, the two-hour version advance that week's Raw has aired on Syfy. In February 2022, Raw temporarily moved to Syfy for two episodes due appoint USA's coverage (as part of NBC Sports) of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
On the August 29, 2011 episode of Raw, it was announced that performers from Raw and SmackDown were no longer exclusive to their respective brand, thus effectively dissolution the brand extension.[23] On July 23, 2012, Raw aired closefitting 1,000th episode, which also began its permanent three-hour format.[24][25] Set phrase January 14, 2013, Raw celebrated its 20th year on picture air.[26] On May 25, 2016, WWE reintroduced the brand shut, and a new set with red ring ropes, a identify new stage, used at SummerSlam. Furthermore, the broadcast table was moved to the entrance ramp similar to how it was in 2002–2005.[citation needed] On January 22, 2018, WWE celebrated interpretation 25th anniversary of Raw with a simulcast show at interpretation Barclays Center in Brooklyn and the home of the leading Monday Night Raw, the Manhattan Center.[27] On the February 19 episode of Raw, six days before Elimination Chamber, seven participants of the men's Elimination Chamber match, Braun Strowman, Elias, European Bálor, John Cena, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and The Miz, were involved in a Gauntlet match that began with Reigns and Rollins. Strowman won the Gauntlet match by pinning Rendering Miz in what was the longest match in WWE depiction, lasting nearly two hours.[28]
From March 12, 2020, to August 18, 2020, WWE announced that all of its live programs would air from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Floridawithout interrupt audience until further notice beginning with the following day's happening of SmackDown due to the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted play a role the suspension of many professional sports leagues. On the Can 25 episode of Raw, NXT trainees were added into stand for crowds at the Performance Center.[29] In August, all programming was moved to the new, state-of-the-art WWE ThunderDome inside of say publicly Amway Center in Orlando. On May 21, 2021, WWE proclaimed that they will return in front of live fans considerable a 25 city tour,[30] therefore the July 12, 2021 way of Raw would be the final WWE ThunderDome show.[31]
In September 2023, USA Network announced that SmackDown would reappear to the network in October 2024 after the expiration look up to its contract with Fox; it was concurrently reported that representation rights to Raw and NXT were on the market pick out heavy interest among linear networks and digital properties.[32][33]
On January 23, 2024, TKO Group announced that Netflix would acquire the direct to Raw beginning in January 2025, in what was reportable to be a 10-year deal worth $500 million per-year (roughly double the value of WWE's current agreement with NBCUniversal). Say publicly agreement will initially cover the United States, Canada, the Unified Kingdom, and Latin America, with other territories to be further in the future. The agreement also gives Netflix rights hurt all WWE programming outside of the United States (replacing WWE Network), including weekly shows, archive content, and live events.[34][35][36] Longstanding USA Network's contract for Raw was to expire in Oct 2024, WWE reached a short-term extension of its agreement criticize NBCUniversal to keep Raw on the network through the period of the year. From October 7 through December 30, Raw was shortened from three to two hours; wrestling reporter Dave Meltzer stated that this was a request made by Army Network.[37][38][39]
With the move to streaming, WWE chief content officer Feminist "Triple H" Levesque said that the length of the imply on Netflix will be "flexible", and no longer bound take in a set runtime as with shows carried on linear television.[40] When asked about the average runtime of each episode, smartness responded that "for me, the perfect show time is assert in the two-and-a-half-hour range. If you had asked me existence ago, the two hour shows, you get into them current you don't have the real estate on that program count up get everything in there you want to get in, scale the stories and characters. Sometimes, it's a good thing for it creates scarcity and opportunity for people to be very over, but sometimes there are things you want to settle your differences in there."[40]
Raw's original set featured red, white, and blue ring-ropes, a blue ring-apron, blue steps, and a small stage energetic of neon light tubes. In 1995, the entrance way was changed to feature "Raw" in giant letters. Beginning on Parade 10, 1997, broadcasts of Raw were split into two hour-long blocks, each given its own name for television ratings bourns. The first hour was referred to as Raw Is War, and the second became known as War Zone. These changes were reflected in television listings and, beginning with the June 9, 1997 episode, by the show's on-screen graphics. War Zone initially opened with a repeat of the Raw intro, punctuated with the War Zone logo. On November 24, 1997, depiction hour received its own distinct opening video, a remixed loathing of the typical Raw opening.
In 1997, the WWF denaturised the color of the ring-ropes to red and began publication Raw Is War along the ring in reference to their rivalry with WCW. The stages was updated to feature a 70-foot tall large screen video wall known as the "TitanTron", which consisted of a projection screen with several metal flat trusses and a video projector. The set also initially featured curtains on each side with truss beams and lighting posterior bearing the "WWF Attitude" banner on the sides. By 1999, the WWF placed a "WWF.com: 'Download This!'" logo on description bottom of the TitanTron and added two vertical sides perpendicular the stage along with a USA Network logo on peak of the TitanTron.
Raw moved to TNN from USA start with the September 25, 2000 episode. The TNN network emblem was added atop the TitanTron on the December 11, 2000 episode. Chyron graphics were added to the bottom beginning adhere to the July 2, 2001 episode.
Beginning October 1, 2001, explain direct response to the September 11 attacks, the first minute was referred to as Raw instead of Raw Is War, and the second hour was rebranded from the War Zone to the Raw Zone within the show's on-screen graphics. Description Monday Night War had ended months earlier with the WWF's purchase of the competing WCW brand. Monday Nitro, which locked away once gone head-to-head with Raw, aired its final show enjoy March. WWF announcers began generally referring to the entire two-hour block as Raw on-air. Raw updated to a new, industrial-inspired, parallelogram-shaped TitanTron in 2002. Ring apron lettering that had before born Raw Is War slogan was replaced with an bill for the WWF website. Around this time, black ring-ropes were occasionally used. Like the previous set, the TNN logo was relocated to the bottom side of the TitanTron. It was subsequently replaced by the Spike TV logo on August 11, 2003, upon network relaunch. During the July 25, 2005 send out of Raw in Cleveland, Ohio, a special stage design was built for the John Cena-Chris Jericho Battle of the Bands concert.
The 2002 set was designed by Production Designer Jason Robinson. It featured a larger TitanTron with dimensions of 55 feet wide by 25 feet tall. The expanded structure weighed about 4,000 pounds and requiring three 18,000-watt projector screens say yes power itself. According to Eric Bischoff on a 2003 affair of WWE Confidential, the show utilized 13 cameras at rendering time at a cost of $85,000.
On October 3, 2005, as Raw returned to USA Network, the 2002 set was retained but the beams and lighting on the sides were modified. The Spike TV logo was removed from the piercing side of the TitanTron. On October 9, 2006, the county show debuted a new logo and opening intro featuring "...To Produce Loved" by Papa Roach as its theme song. This badge and intro were retained until November 9, 2009, a stretch of time that also saw the changeover to broadcasting Raw in high-definition, which occurred on January 21, 2008.
From November 16, 2009, to July 16, 2012, the theme song for the Raw brand was "Burn It to the Ground" by Nickelback.[41] Old to this, the theme song for Raw was "...To Tweak Loved" by Papa Roach, which had been used since Oct 9, 2006 and "Across The Nation" by The Union Clandestine which was used from April 1, 2002, to October 2, 2006. The rock and roll outro of "Thorn In Your Eye" featuring Scott Ian of Anthrax was the theme ventilate from March 31, 1997, to March 25, 2002.
On Hawthorn 17, 2012, WWE and USA Network announced that Raw would switch to a permanent three-hour format beginning with the 1,000th episode on July 23, 2012.[42] Since then, all three hours of the broadcast have been known solely as Raw, shuffle through they are still considered three separate programs for Nielsen ratings purposes (as indicated by the on-screen copyright notice shown in the end of each hour). In 2010, WWE retired interpretation red ropes for Raw after thirteen years for an go into battle white scheme, which in 2012 became standard for all WWE programming. In 2012, Raw updated their HD set.[43]
Beginning in mid-2014, this set would also be featured in pay-per-views. From conventional September through the end of October 2012, the middle compel at all WWE programming was changed to pink due make longer WWE's alliance with the Susan G. Komen organization for Chest Cancer Awareness Month.[44] This was repeated in 2013, from come together September to early November, and it was repeated in 2014 from September 29. WWE is one of many organizations who provide financial contributions to the organization in addition to rearing awareness among its staff and consumers.[45]
On August 18, 2014, Raw switched to a full 16:9 letterbox widescreen presentation, with a down-scaled version of the native HD feed on a 4:3 SD feed. In conjunction with this, Raw updated its artwork package, with the new WWE logo (first used with interpretation WWE Network's launch in February) now on the lower-right bear of the screen, right next to the word, "Live". Outburst this time, the new WWE logo began appearing on picture ring's turnbuckle covers, and USA Network logo moved to interpretation lower-left hand corner of the screen. Additionally, Raw's theme at a bargain price a fuss ("The Night") was modified.
On March 23, 2015, WWE go faster a small LED board to the left side of depiction ring on Raw. This LED board was also used soft WrestleMania 31. The LED board has since been featured in shape a sporadic basis, appearing in some weeks and being missing in others. On the 1,000th episode of Raw, "The Night" by Kromestatik debuted as the theme for Raw. "Energy" overtake Shinedown served as the secondary theme-song until August 18, 2014, when it was replaced with "Denial" by We Are Harlot.[46]
On the September 14, 2015 season premiere of Raw, the central rope was colored gold. Throughout the month of October 2015, the program once again partnered with Susan G. Komen bring forward the Cure to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with a number of stage elements being made pink.[47] On the November 16, 2015, episode of Raw, WWE had a moment of silence hold the victims of the terrorist attack in Paris, France, costly November 13, 2015.[48] Another moment of silence was held months later in June for the victims of the Orlando association shooting.
On July 25, 2016, the ropes returned to cosseted, the announce table moved back to the top of description stage for the first time since 2005, and a fresh HD set and graphics were debuted. The new set was almost identical to the set used for SummerSlam2012 and 2013. After some fans responded negatively to the redesign, the get on your nerves was revamped four weeks later with a more elaborate shaft distinctive arrangement. The new set featured the absence of a traditional TitanTron, which had been part of the Raw scaffolding since 1997. In its place was a curved LED flag with several rows of rectangle LED lights behind it. Representation new set also introduced LED floor panels on the entr‚e ramp along with LED ring posts. On the January 29, 2018 episode of Raw, new graphics and an updated badge were introduced, which lasted until September 23, 2019.[49]
In September 2021, the ring-ropes changed color from red to white, which was also reflected on SmackDown. On November 22 of that class, an updated version of the 2019 logo was introduced, abut new graphics. The theme song was changed to "Greatness" bid Vo Williams, which remained its theme song until November 20, 2023, when it was changed to "Born to Be" indifferent to def rebel, the artist behind WWE's music input for cast down programming, which is performed by Supreme Madness. Bumper themes target "Survival", "Eye of an Warrior" and "Legacy".
In February 2022, Raw and NXT temporarily moved to Syfy in the Common States due to USA Network broadcasting coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics. A similar arrangement occurred in August 2024 confirm the 2024 Summer Olympics.
| Song title | Written and/or performed by | Dates used | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Monday Night Raw" | Roger H. Tallman | January 11, 1993 – March 3, 1997 | [50][51] |
| "Raw" | Roger H. Tallman & Jim Johnston | 1993–1995 | [50][52] |
| "The Beautiful People" | Marilyn Manson | March 10, 1997 – March 24, 1997 | [50][53] |
| "Thorn in Your Eye" | WWE Superstars & Slam Jam | March 31, 1997 – March 25, 2002 | [50][54][55] |
| "We're All Together Now" | WWE Superstars & Slam Conserve | March 31, 1997 – March 25, 2002 | [50][56] |
| "Across the Nation" | The Union Underground | April 1, 2002 – October 2, 2006 | [50][57] |
| "...To Be Loved" | Papa Roach | October 9, 2006 – November 9, 2009 | [50][58][59] |
| "Burn It to the Ground" | Nickelback | November 16, 2009 – July 16, 2012 | [50][60][61] |
| "Tonight Is the Night" | Outasight | July 23, 2012 (only used for Raw 1000) | [50][62][63] |
| "The Night"1 | CFO$ (Kromestatik) | July 23, 2012 – July 18, 2016 | [50][64][65] |
| "Enemies" | Shinedown | July 25, 2016 – Jan 22, 2018 | [66] |
| "My Songs Know What You Did in interpretation Dark (Light Em Up)" | Fall Out Boy | January 22, 2018 (only used for Raw 25 Years) | [67] |
| "Born for Greatness" | Papa Criticism | January 29, 2018 – September 23, 2019 | [68] |
| "Legendary" | Skillet | September 30, 2019 – October 12, 2020 | [69] |
| "The Search" | NF | October 19, 2020 – November 15, 2021 | [70] |
| "Greatness" | Vo Williams | November 22, 2021 – November 13, 2023 | [71] |
| "I'm Good (Blue)" | David Guetta & Bebe Rexha | January 23, 2023 (only used for Raw is XXX) | [72] |
| "Born to Be" | def rebel | November 20, 2023 – December 30, 2024 | [73] |
| "4X4"2 | Travis Scott | January 6, 2025 – present | [74][75] |
The name for Raw was disputed in June 2009 when Muscle Track Inc., a Los Angeles-based fitness company, had taken legal progress against the WWE after a court ruled that some endorse WWE's trademarks related to Raw were similar enough to representation In the Raw trademark that they caused confusion among Canadians.[76] On June 18, 2008, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office run away with issued a final decision that found certain wares listed discern the trademark application from WWE (No. 1,153,018) were confusingly jar and thus lacked distinctiveness from the Muscle Flex trademark, which Muscle Flex is in the process of acquiring. The WWE appealed the CIPO's ruling to the Federal Court of Canada, but failed to file the required documents by the deadline.[77]
In August 2009, the court ruled in favor of Muscle Edge, Inc. that it was successful in defending its In description Raw trademark against the WWE. In a press release court issued on July 20, 2009, Muscle Flex Inc. disclosed dump it was in possession of WWE Raw-labeled items that smack believes directly infringe on its In the Raw trademark much as various CDs, VHS tapes, and a number of clothes items. According to the WWE's most recent reported financial fifteen minutes in 2009, combined sales of WWE's consumer products and digital media business segments produced $40 million in global revenues. Feature previous quarters, these numbers were even higher.[78]
Similarly, in June 2017, the WWE issued a legal order to Raw Motors, phony automobile repair company in Colwick, UK, over a logo desert it claims infringes on one of its logos for Raw that was used from 2006 to 2012.[79][80]
Main article: Incline of WWE Raw special episodes
Throughout its broadcast history, the make known has aired episodes that have different themes. Some of them are yearly events such as the Slammy Awards. Others incorporate tributes to various professional wrestlers who have recently died sort out retired from actively performing, as well as episodes commemorating different show milestones or anniversaries such as Raw 1000, which wellknown the 1000th broadcast. Raw also celebrated its thirtieth anniversary seriousness RAW IS XXX on January 23, 2023.
Main article: Give away of WWE personnel
The wrestlers featured on WWE take part divulge scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers are portrayed as heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build pressure and culminate in a wrestling match.
The primary commentators mention Raw are Michael Cole and Pat McAfee. Additional commentary has been provided by Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler, Jonathan Coachman, Joey Styles, Tom Phillips, Kevin Patrick, Joe Tessitore and others since its creation.
In the United States, the show airs be there every Monday at 8 p.m. ET on Netflix. Occasionally, Raw is aired on same-day tape delay when WWE is influence an overseas tour. Raw is also shown live on Trinitrotoluene Sports in the United Kingdom and Ireland,[81] in a pose which began January 2020.[82][83]Raw airs live in India at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesdays on Sony Ten 1.[84][85][86] Since October 6, 2014, Raw has been airing live throughout Latin America on Trickster Sports.[87] Currently, Raw is broadcast live on ESPN 4 shadow Central America and on Fox Sports 2 in South U.s.a., in Mexico it is broadcast on Fox Sports, in Argentina on Fox Sports 3, in Chile on Fox Sports 1 and in Brazil on Fox Sports 2 and ESPN Accessory, (also available on Star+ for Central and South America).[88] Picture show also airs live on Supersport in South Africa gettogether Tuesdays at 02:00 am CAT. Raw had aired in Country on Fox8 since 2003, usually on a 27-hour tape score, but has started airing live as of February 4, 2014.[89]Syfy in the United States started airing a 2-hour replay complete Raw on May 20, 2016. On June 26, 2018, WWE and USA Network announced a five-year contract extension for Raw. The new agreement for the live, weekly three-hour block commenced in October 2019.[90] Clips from some WWE shows have along with been shown on Fox Sports.com.[91]
On September 24, 2012, Hulu signed a multi-year deal with WWE to stream all worm your way in the company's TV shows and some of its web periodical which includes Raw. Episodes of Raw are available for vigil the following day as a condensed 90-minute version is give out, not the full version as shown the previous night take into account USA Network.[92]
As of December 9, 2016, all episodes of Raw are available on demand on the WWE Network. Recent episodes are available for on-demand viewing 30 days after their creative air date.[93][94]
After WrestleMania 32 in 2016, WWE began with aeration the newest episodes of Raw and SmackDown on YouTube give a hand countries that do not air WWE programming on traditional TV for free in less than 24 hours after the contemporary broadcast (The links are blocked in countries where the shows are traditionally available). The 90-minute Hulu version gets put underscore YouTube for international audiences.
As of January 6, 2025, Raw is exclusively streaming on Netflix in most countries.
From 1995 to 2006, Raw was shown on The Sports Network (TSN) until it moved to rival sports broadcaster The Score (now renamed Sportsnet 360) after it was announced that TSN would be carrying Monday Night Football for the 2006 season. That meant that Canadian viewers would have to watch via tape-delay, as The Score did not broadcast Raw live at consider it time. Around that time, The Score aired Countdown to Raw until May 2013 when Raw is shown live to peer the United States airtime.[95][96] It was also shown on CKVR-TV in Barrie and CKMI-TV in Quebec until 2009.
During lying run on TSN, which aired live, Raw occasionally had antediluvian censored live for extremely violent scenes, or when female wrestlers or characters were assaulted by male wrestlers (particularly one job that featured the 3-Minute Warning assaulting Kitana Baker). These alertnesses are supposed to be in order to meet Canadian originate standards, with repeat broadcasts often more heavily edited. This excise had disappointed many wrestling fans over the years, and problem unusual since the violence of wrestling scenes are not importantly different from other television programs aired on regular Canadian networks.[97][98]
Due to Rogers holding the rights to the National Hockey Friend broadcasts, Raw also aired on its OLN channel (now Bravo).[99]
All archived broadcasts of Raw were available on the WWE Meshing until its closure in December 2024. Since January 1, 2025, WWE’s Canadian broadcast rights are held by Netflix. Select archived episodes are available for streaming on Netflix under the dub Raw Vault, with live broadcasts beginning on January 6.
Raw airs live in the MENA region on Shahid streaming platform Tuesday mornings, and later on the same submit, a one-hour version airs on MBC Action at 8 PM Egypt Standard Time.[100] It also airs on FM1 in Persia and[101][102] on Sport 1 and Sport 1 HD in Israel.[103][104]Raw further began airing on S Sport and S Sport With an increment of in Turkey.[105]
In Germany, Raw airs live and is on-demand distend the Website of Bild, only for Bild+ Subscribers and snatch German commentary on ProSieben MAXX every Wednesday at 10pm.[106] Ploy Belgium, Raw airs on ABXplore (in French) and on Play6.[107][108]
In Czech Republic, Raw airs on Nova Sport.[109]
In France, Raw affectedness on AB1 every Wednesday with French commentary.[110][111]
In Italy, Raw affectedness live on Discovery Plus and with the Italian commentary 7 days after on DMAX.
In Lithuania, Raw airs on BTV.[112] In Poland, Raw airs on Extreme Sports Channel.[113][114]
In Portugal, Raw airs live on Sport TV[115] with Portuguese commentary. In Rumania, Raw airs on Telekom Sport.[116]
In Russia, there is currently no broadcaster of the programme.[117]Raw previously aired on Match! Fighter clank Russian commentary until 2022, when WWE ceased broadcasting their programs and Premium Live Events in Russia in response to description Russian invasion of Ukraine.[118] In Serbia, Raw was airs offer Prva Srpska Televizija.,[119] like it was airs on OBN discredit Bosnia and Herzegovina and on RTL 2 in Croatia.
In Spain, Raw aired on Mega every Saturday at 1pm give up your job Spanish commentary.[120]
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Raw airs material on Netflix as well as Smackdown and NXT.[121]
Raw airs live on Sony Ten 1 and Sony Ten 1 HD in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal.[102][122][123][124] Position airs on Ten Sport in Pakistan.[102][125] Raw airs on Plectognath TV On-Demand in Indonesia.[126] In India Raw is aired Stand up for and Replays are available via the Over-The-Top Service in SonyLiv which also provides its own section of WWE Network little a Separate Subscription.
Raw streams live in the Philippines tipoff Blast TV (formerly TapGO) with a live and encore television program on TAP Sports & Blast Sports on the same day.[127]
Raw airs live on Starhub's Hub Sports 2 in Singapore.[128]
Raw affectedness on Astro's Sport Plus in Malaysia.[129]
Raw airs both live become more intense delayed on Fox8 and Thursday nights on 9Go! as a one-hour version in Australia.[130][131]
Raw airs on Abema in Japan.[132]
Raw pose live on Sky 5 and Friday nights on Sky Smidgen as a one-hour version in New Zealand.[133]
Raw airs in Crockery on various local networks within China[134] and Videoland Television Fabric in Taiwan in both English and Thai.[135]
Raw airs on ViuTVsix in Hong Kong, on Ten Sports in Pakistan, and conceited IB Sports in South Korea.
Raw airs live show Fox Sports in Mexico[87][136][137] and across Central and South America.[87][138][139] It also airs on La Red in Chile,[140][141] Unitel unite Bolivia,[142]Canal Uno in Colombia,[140][143][144]Teleamazonas in Ecuador,[145]Andina de Televisión in Peru,[146][147]Repretel: Canal 11 in Costa Rica, Canal VTV in El Salvador,[87][148]Canal 5 in Honduras,[87][149] RPC Canal 4 in Panama[87][150][151] and Imagen Televisión in Mexico.[152] It is assumed that all of these channels will lose their rights in their respective countries talk to January 2025 as Netflix acquired the rights to Raw essential Latin America.
Previously the rights to broadcast Raw, stay on with other WWE shows, were held by free-to-air broadcaster e.tv.[153] Raw would play on Sundays in the evening, with a 7-day delay, edited to one hour and was the about watched program on the channel. However, in 2017 e.tv contracted not to renew its broadcasting deal with WWE.[154] The undiluted were later resold to SuperSport (the initial broadcasters of WWE programming).[155][156][failed verification]
In 2019 SuperSport, along with its parent company MultiChoice, signed a deal to broadcast the 24-hour WWE channel whilst a pop-up channel for five months on their DStv platform.[157] It is now a permanent channel on DStv under description channel number 128
| Channel | Timeslot | Years |
|---|---|---|
| USA | Monday 9–10 p.m. ET | January 11, 1993 – February 3, 1997 |
| Monday 9–11 p.m. ET | February 10, 1997 – September 18, 2000 | |
| TNN/Spike TV | September 25, 2000 – September 26, 2005 | |
| USA | October 3, 2005 – July 16, 2012 | |
| Monday 8–11 p.m. ET | July 23, 2012 – September 30, 2024 | |
| Monday 8–10 p.m. ET | October 7, 2024 – December 30, 2024 | |
| Netflix | Flexible | January 6, 2025 – present |