USA Network's "WWE Raw" is the Monday night professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). "
WWE Raw
" is consistently the highest-rated regularly scheduled program on cable television and is the longest running episodic entertainment series in television history. "
WWE Raw
" is generally considered to be WWE's flagship program because of its longer history than The CW's "WWE Friday Night SmackDown!" and Sci Fi Channel's "Extreme Championship Wrestling" (ECW). "
WWE Raw
" features the immense talent and appeal of the WWE's finest Superstars, such as
Triple H,
John Cena,
Ric Flair,
Shawn Michaels, Edge, Carlito, and
Shelton Benjamin. There is never a repeat of "
WWE Raw
!"
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and NBC Universal inked a three-year agreement that returned WWE cable programming, including ratings titan "Monday Night Raw," to USA Network in October 2005. "
WWE Raw
, "a cable mainstay for more than 12 years, continues to be the most watched regularly scheduled year-round program on ad-supported cable television.
The agreement is a homecoming of sorts for WWE, which introduced Monday Night RAW on USA on January 11, 1993. The prime time cable series flourished for seven years, establishing cable ratings records, before moving to Spike TV in September 25, 2000.
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) is an integrated media and entertainment company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto and London.
