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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19 Facts About WWE Raw
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In September 2000, WWE Raw moved from the USA Network to TNN, which rebranded to Spike TV in August 2003.
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Since its first episode, WWE 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 WWE Raw was sixty minutes in length and broke new ground in televised professional wrestling.
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The WWE 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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WWE 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 WWE 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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Since the move to USA Network, Raw has been pre-empted during the U S 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, WWE Raw temporarily moved to Syfy for two episodes due to USA's coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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WWE Raw updated to a new, industrial-inspired, parallelogram-shaped TitanTron in 2002.
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In 2010, WWE retired the red ropes for Raw after thirteen years for an all white scheme, and in 2012 became standard for all WWE programming.
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From late September through the end of October 2012, the middle rope at all WWE programming was changed to pink due to WWE's alliance with the Susan G Komen organization for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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WWE Raw is one of many organizations who provide financial contributions as well as getting customers and employees to support the cause.
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The WWE Raw appealed the CIPO's ruling to the Federal Court of Canada, but failed to file the required documents by the deadline.
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Similarly, in June 2017, the WWE issued a legal order to Raw Motors, an automobile repair company in Colwick, UK, over a logo that it claims infringes on one of its logos for Raw that was used from 2006 to 2012.
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WWE Raw has had various recurring on-air segments hosted by members of the roster.
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WWE Raw is shown live on BT Sport in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in a deal which began January 2020.
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Episodes of WWE 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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From 1995 to 2006, WWE Raw 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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