Report – WWE Show May Be Discontinued After CW Deal Kicks In
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WWE has new TV deals, with Monday Night RAW moving to Netflix in January, Friday Night SmackDown returning from FOX to the USA Network, and NXT moving from USA to the CW Network next month.
NBCU still has a streaming deal with WWE for the WWE Network to air in the United States on Peacock. As part of the new deal, the full past-season library of WWE SmackDown is available on Peacock, with new episodes becoming available 30 days after airing on the USA Network.
New episodes of WWE RAW are also accessible on Peacock 30 days after airing on the USA Network. However, Peacock will no longer have the libraries for NXT and RAW after 9/19 and 10/1, respectively.
Moreover, fans will notice countdown clocks for NXT and RAW programming on Peacock, indicating that the library will expire, but only for episodes after the mentioned dates.
WrestleVotes Radio is reporting that NXT Level Up will end soon after airing on Fridays on Peacock since February 2022.
The report states, "While we're talking about NXT, with the WWE Hulu contract coming up next week, the NXT secondary show Level Up will be discontinued. That's what we're hearing. They will no longer continue filming the Level Up show that airs on Peacock, that features a lot of the younger NXT talent. And you know, it is what it is. It's just a lot of moving parts right now, but we will say goodbye to Level Up."
It’s uncertain whether the entire NXT library will be removed from Peacock once the CW deal takes effect.
The report adds, "It's likely everything from NXT 2.0 up until today will disappear and move over to the CW app. With that said, we don't know if Takeovers are included here. Again, it could be just 2.0 stuff, which would include Deadlines and No Mercy and things like that, could disappear from Peacock, but a lot of the more recent NXT stuff will be gone off of the WWE Network/Peacock….it just comes down to the rights of that now that CW is in charge of having the NXT rights. I think that because they were formally in the hands of Peacock and USA Network. How those agreements all are written is definitely playing into why those past episodes will no longer be available moving forward."
In addition to potentially discontinuing NXT Level Up, WWE will expand SmackDown to three hours starting January 2025.
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