CW President Says WWE Raw And SmackDown ‘Were A Little Beyond Our Budget’
CW President discusses CW Network landing NXT.
In November 2023, CW Network announced that NXT would join the network in the fall of 2024 when their current rights deal with USA Network expires.
USA Network will pick up WWE SmackDown while WWE Raw will move to Netflix.
Speaking to Joe Otterson of Variety, CW President Dennis Miller commented on the network landing NXT.
“We knew that ‘Raw’ and ‘SmackDown’ were a little bit beyond our budget here,” Miller said. “Then if you look, we have a lot of sports where we have kind of that next tier moving into the first tier here, whether it’s the Xfinity races leading into the Cup, or it’s NXT leading into ‘Raw’ and ‘SmackDown.’ So it just started to fit. Then over the course of a couple of months, we went back and forth and got the deal done.”
In a press release on Thursday, CW Network confirmed that NXT will remain on Tuesdays.
A start date for NXT on CW was not announced.
