Smackdown will be officially moving over to FOX in October. When the move does happen, the show will be switching from Tuesday to Friday night.
FOX Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier provided some interesting notes on the plans for Smackdown in a recent media conference (highlights below via PWInsider).
— Collier referenced Smackdown being on Friday’s as something that will be “short term”.
- The speculation is that FOX could be planning to move Smackdown away from Friday in the long-term.
— Collier also noted that “other” WWE programming will be appearing on FOX Sports 1.
- This is interesting based on there being rumors for the past year about WWE potentially putting NXT on a cable n
etwork . Maybe NXT moves to Fox Sports 1 down the road?
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