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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25 Facts About Raw Is War
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In September 2000, Raw Is War moved from the USA Network to TNN, which rebranded to Spike TV in August 2003.
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On October 3,2005, Raw Is War 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 Raw Is War episodes, excluding content that was censored or removed by Peacock TV's standards and practices department.
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Since its first episode, Raw Is War 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 Raw Is War was sixty minutes in length and broke new ground in televised professional wrestling.
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The Raw Is War formula was considerably different from the taped weekend shows that aired at the time such as Superstars and Wrestling Challenge.
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Raw Is War 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 Raw Is War 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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The April 13,1998 episode of Raw Is War, which was headlined by a match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vince McMahon, marked the first time that WCW had lost the head-to-head Monday night ratings battle in the 84 weeks since 1996.
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Since the move to USA Network, Raw Is War 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, Raw Is War 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, Raw Is War aired its 1,000th episode, which began its permanent three-hour format.
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War Zone opened with simply the 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 Raw opening video.
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In 1997, WWF changed to red ring-ropes for Raw as well as Raw Is War being written along the ring due to their rivalry with WCW.
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Raw Is War updated to a new, industrial-inspired, parallelogram-shaped TitanTron in 2002.
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On October 3,2005, as Raw Is War 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, Raw Is War 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, Raw Is War introduced a new set, updated logo, and new theme music.
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Raw Is War has had various recurring on-air segments hosted by members of the roster.
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Occasionally, Raw is aired on same-day tape delay when WWE is on an overseas tour.
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Since October 6,2014, Raw Is War has been airing live throughout Latin America on Fox Sports.
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Raw Is War 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 Is War 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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From 1995 to 2006, Raw Is War was shown on The Sports Network until it moved to rival sports broadcaster The Score after it was announced that TSN would be carrying Monday Night Football for the 2006 season.
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