The Friday night program is returning to USA Network as part of a just-announced agreement between WWE and NBCUniversal.
WWE announced Sept. 21 that its “Friday Night Smackdown” show will air on USA Network beginning October 2024. WWE will also produce four primetime specials per year for NBC beginning in the 2024-2025 TV season as part of a five-year agreement with NBCUniversal.
“NBCUniversal has been a tremendous partner of WWE for decades,” WWE President Nick Khan said in a statement. “We are excited to extend this longstanding relationship by bringing ‘SmackDown’ to USA Network on Friday nights and look forward to debuting multiple WWE special events annually on NBC.” “Smackdown” previously aired on USA Network from 2016 to 2019, the year it moved to its current home, Fox. In recent years the show has prominently featured the reigning Undisputed WWE Universal Champion,Last week’s episode of “Smackdown” made headlines when Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson made a rare WWE return, exchanging blows in the ring with Austin Theory and