WWE Raw celebrates 15 years with renewal

December 07th, 2007 | Category: Sports

Monday, WWE Raw will be celebrating 15 years with a special three-hour episode. On the eve of that celebration comes word, Reuters tells us that the wrestling program’s contract has been extended another two years, guaranteeing more chair smashing, smack talking through 2010. The overall deal includes a continuation of the twice yearly NBC Saturday night specials, the A.M. Raw weekend USA show, as well as a Spanish-language edition for the growing Telemundo networks.

After fifteen years, Raw remains one of cable’s strongest programs, currently averaging 5.1 million viewers weekly. And since it doesn’t go into reruns, that’s strong programming year-round, which at that duration has to look pretty enticing to the network. whether things continue with the strike, we might even see more WWE programming come to NBC proper.

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Original post by Jason Hughes

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