WWE NXT will remain on Tuesdays after move to The CW
WWE NXT won’t be changing nights when the show moves to The CW this fall.
In November 2023, WWE announced that it had agreed to a five-year deal with The CW to bring NXT to the station. NXT will begin airing on The CW this October.
The CW unveiled its fall schedule today, officially confirming that NXT will remain on Tuesdays. It will stay in its 8-10 p.m. Eastern time slot. The CW wrote in a press release:
The next generation of WWE Superstars take to the ring when WWE NXT airs live every Tuesday (8:00-10:00pm ET).
Acquiring the rights to NXT is part of The CW’s strategy to increase its live sports portfolio.
“We’ll also have more live sports than ever before with the addition of WWE NXT, the NASCAR XFINITY SERIES and Pac-12 football alongside second seasons of LIV Golf, INSIDE THE NFL, ACC football and ACC basketball,” said Brad Schwartz, President of Entertainment at The CW. “Anchored by 500 hours of sports in 2025, we continue to get bigger and broader while reaching and growing our audience across broadcast, streaming and local.”
The move from USA Network to The CW brings NXT from a cable channel to a broadcast network. NXT has aired on USA since 2019 and will remain on the channel until moving to The CW.
USA Network is losing both NXT and WWE Raw, but SmackDown will return to USA starting this September. Raw will continue airing on USA until its new deal with Netflix starts in January 2025.
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