Let's Get Ready to Program: WWE'S RAW Returns to USA Network

  • April 5, 2005
Pile-drivers, suplex's, and body slams will be back on the USA Network in October, as the World Wrestling Entertainment and NBC Universal, the parent of USA, have signed a three-year agreement Monday that will return professional wrestling to its original cable home.

The agreement is a homecoming of sorts for WWE, which introduced Monday Night RAW on USA on January 11, 1993. The prime-time cable series flourished for seven years, establishing cable ratings records, before moving to Spike TV on September 25, 2000. In addition to Monday Night RAW, USA will air a one-hour weekend RAW-branded program, and NBCU's Telemundo will air Spanish-language versions of RAW.

--D.K.

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