WWE is about to go on a new journey with Monday Night Raw as it moves off television for the first time ever since launching in 1993. It will be moving to Netflix, the biggest streaming platform in the world, starting this Monday night.
When it comes to Raw, it has always been on Monday nights in its usual timeslot outside of times when it was preempted. However, with that night comes that competition of the juggernaut known as the NFL with Monday Night Football.
While speaking to Jimmy Traina on the SI Media podcast, Triple H was asked whether they considered moving Raw to a different night.
Triple H stated, “One of the things working best in WWE with the team of Nick [Khan], Lee Fitting, and many others, we’re all looking at what is the best way to do it. Forget what we have and what’s on the table. Let’s look at it with fresh eyes and say, ‘If we were building this ground up, what would we do and how would we do it?’ Take all the things we know and factor in the whys and hows. Monday night was contemplated. Is that a move off of Monday? Is it stay on Monday? It’s also a 30-plus-year tradition. You have to factor that in. Plus, the business model and everything else. I’m a big believer that you can work around all of those things. We weighed all of it out, as we always do, with the partners and ourselves, and we determined what was best and what was best was staying on Monday. You can move and understand the global nature of WWE and Netflix. Yes, Monday is NFL, but that is not a factor in a lot of the world. There were a lot of factors heavily weighed.”
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