WWE Raw, known as Monday Night Raw or simply Raw, is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE that currently airs live every Monday at 8pm ET on the USA Network in the United States.
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26 Facts About Monday Night Raw
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In September 2000, Monday Night Raw moved from the USA Network to TNN, which rebranded to Spike TV in August 2003.
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On October 3,2005, Monday Night Raw returned to the USA Network, where it remains today.
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The WWE Network has ceased operations in the United States as of April 5,2021, with all content being moved to Peacock TV, which currently has most Monday Night Raw episodes, excluding content that was censored or removed by Peacock TV's standards and practices department.
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Since its first episode, Monday Night Raw has been broadcast live from 208 different arenas, 171 cities and towns, and ten different nations: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Afghanistan in 2005, Iraq in 2006 and 2007, South Africa, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Mexico.
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The original Monday Night Raw was sixty minutes in length and broke new ground in televised professional wrestling.
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The Monday Night Raw formula was considerably different from the taped weekend shows that aired at the time such as Superstars and Wrestling Challenge.
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Monday Night Raw originated from the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center, a small New York City theater, and aired live each week.
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The first episode produced outside of New York was taped in Bushkill, Pennsylvania in November 1993 and Monday Night Raw left the Manhattan Center permanently as the show would be taken on the road throughout the United States and had in smaller venues.
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On February 3,1997, Monday Night Raw went to a two-hour format, to compete with the extra hour on Nitro, and by March 10, it was renamed to Monday Night Raw Is War.
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On orders from Eric Bischoff, Nitro announcer Tony Schiavone gave away this previously taped result on a live Nitro and then sarcastically added, "That's gonna put some butts in the seats", consequently resulting in over 600,000 viewers switching channels to Monday Night Raw Is War to see the underdog capture the WWF Championship.
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Since the move to USA Network, Monday Night Raw has been pre-empted during the US Open, which aired on USA, resulting the program to be moved to SciFi, a sister channel to USA, for three years.
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In February 2022, Monday Night Raw temporarily moved to Syfy for two episodes due to USA's coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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On July 23,2012, Monday Night Raw aired its 1,000th episode, which began its permanent three-hour format.
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Since March 10,1997, broadcasts of Monday Night Raw were split into two hours and given hourly names for television ratings purposes, with the first hour being referred to as Monday Night Raw Is War and the second as War Zone in television listings, and by the show's on-screen graphics beginning with the June 9,1997 episode.
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War Zone opened with simply the Monday Night Raw intro repeated, punctuated with the War Zone logo, until the November 24,1997 broadcast when it finally debuted its own distinct opening video, albeit simply a remixed Monday Night Raw opening video.
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Monday Night Raw updated to a new, industrial-inspired, parallelogram-shaped TitanTron in 2002.
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On October 3,2005, as Monday Night Raw returned to USA Network, the 2002 set was retained but the beams and lighting on the sides were modified.
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In conjunction with this, Monday Night Raw updated its graphics package, with the new WWE logo now on the lower-right corner of the screen, right next to the word, "Live".
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On September 30,2019 for its season premiere, Monday Night Raw introduced a new set, updated logo, and new theme music.
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Monday Night Raw has had various recurring on-air segments hosted by members of the roster.
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Occasionally, Monday Night Raw is aired on same-day tape delay when WWE is on an overseas tour.
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Monday Night Raw is shown live on BT Sport in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in a deal which began January 2020.
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Since October 6,2014, Monday Night Raw has been airing live throughout Latin America on Fox Sports.
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Monday Night Raw had aired in Australia on Fox8 since 2003, usually on a 27-hour tape delay, but has started airing live as of February 4,2014.
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Episodes of Raw are available for viewing the following day as a condensed 90-minute version is available, not the full version as shown the previous night on the USA Network.
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