WWE NXT weekly TV & PLEs to be available on ESPN Unlimited
A day after it was announced that NXT premium live events found a permanent home on The CW, a new development in the sports media landscape will see those PLEs and NXT’s weekly TV show available on ESPN Unlimited for domestic subscribers.
Announced on Wednesday, ESPN and The CW have struck a deal that will see all of the current live sports that air on The CW available to Unlimited subscribers within the ESPN app. That includes WWE NXT, college football and basketball, auto racing, and more.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
It’s unclear if The CW will continue to make their live sports available through their own app as they had been doing. Programming will continue to be seen on their broadcast network in over 120 million homes.
The current five-year WWE/CW partnership began in October 2024 and now calls for 20 total PLEs including Stand and Deliver, Deadline, and Vengeance Day.
Since 2011, Josh has been a contributing editor to Wrestling Observer/F4WOnline.com and also hosts the Punch-Out podcast. He has also written for Fight Magazine, Bloody Elbow, Bleacher Report, and other websites. He's a 2000 graduate of the University of Maine, worked in pro sports, and once was an indie ring announcer.