WWE Raw on the USA Network is getting a change to its run-time later in 2024 with the plans for the show on Netflix now revealed.
As announced during the September 9 episode of WWE Raw, from October 7 2024, the Monday night show will run for two hours between 8pm and 10pm ET.
With WWE Raw heading to Netflix in January 2025, Dave Meltzer has now revealed more details about the show length on the streaming platform along with details of why the change was made on USA Network.
Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Meltzer revealed the plans for Netflix, stating that they are ‘confirmed’, saying:
“It’s a three-hour show when it moves to Netflix. I got it confirmed a few minutes ago.”
Meltzer would then go on to provide details of the change to two hours on USA Network, stating:
“The basic situation is that it was a USA Network call not a WWE call. I’m not sure why. It will boost the ratings of the show because they won’t have the third hour that drags down the average, but I’m not sure exactly why USA made the call.
“October 7 will be the first show under the new three month contract, which is the $25 million deal for three months, which is way below market value. So for that three month period WWE had the choice between Peacock or USA essentially.
“Peacock was not willing to pay extra, they would have taken it and taken the three hours and I guess USA was only going to take the two hours because maybe they had something planned.
“The plans were to drop Raw at the end of this month. And so whatever it was this was the way that was all worked out, that they were going to take it for two hours.”
WWE Raw was previously a two-hour show back in 1997 and would become a weekly three-house show on July 23, 2012 with the 1,000th episode of the program.
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