#Wwe theme songs list 2014 professional
#Wwe theme songs list 2014 series

Move to NBC Universal, Syfy, USA Network On March 20, 2009, SmackDown celebrated its 500th episode. Retaining its previous Friday-night time slot, the season premiere of SmackDown on MyNetworkTV was the highest-rated program in the fledgling network's history, with 3.2 million viewers.

#Wwe theme songs list 2014 series

The CW declined to renew SmackDown, resulting in the series being picked up in October 2008 by MyNetworkTV, a second new network that had been formed by Fox Entertainment Group to take on former UPN and WB affiliates who were not selected to join The CW. On September 22, 2006, Friday Night SmackDown! aired its first episode on The CW. As part of the announcement, The CW announced that it would renew Friday Night SmackDown! for two more seasons as part of its launch schedule-which drew from the strongest programs of its two predecessors. Entertainment announced that UPN and The WB would merge to form a new network known as The CW that fall. In January 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. WWE subsequently announced that the show would be renamed Friday Night SmackDown! to emphasize the new scheduling. With the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise, SmackDown! moved into its former timeslot on Friday nights for the 2005–06 season, beginning September 9, 2005. In the 2004–05 season, SmackDown! had an average viewership of 5.1 million viewers, making it UPN's second-highest-rated series behind America's Next Top Model. In March 2002, WWF implemented the ' brand extension', under which Raw and SmackDown! would have separate rosters of performers that are exclusive to their respective programs and events, and be positioned in-universe as competing 'brands' (in a manner reminiscent of athletic conferences). Throughout the show's early existence, The Rock routinely called SmackDown! 'his show', in reference to the fact that the name was derived from one of his catchphrases, 'Lay the smack down'. The new WWF show was so popular that WCW moved Thunder to Wednesdays so that it would not compete directly.

Like Thunder, SmackDown! was recorded on Tuesdays and then broadcast on Thursdays. On August 26, 1999, SmackDown! officially debuted on UPN. SmackDown! first appeared on Apusing the Raw set as a single television special on UPN. WWF SmackDown! was set up to compete against World Championship Wrestling (WCW)'s Thursday night show, Thunder. The first SmackDown! logo used on Apto August 9, 2001. Recent episodes are still available for on-demand viewing 30 days after the original air date. The WWE Network has ceased operations in the United States as of April 4, 2021, with all content in the process of being moved to Peacock, which now has all episodes of SmackDown. The show celebrated its 15th anniversary on October 10, 2014, and the 1000th episode on October 16, 2018. For international broadcast listings, see below. Prior to switching to its current live format, taped episodes premiered a few hours earlier in Ireland and the United Kingdom and a day earlier in Australia, Canada, Singapore, and the Philippines than the United States, due to time differences. SmackDown has been broadcast from 163 arenas, 148 cities and towns, seven countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Iraq in 20 for Tribute to the Troops, Japan in 2005, Italy in 2007, and Mexico in 2011. SmackDown 's move to FOX on Octomarked the show's return to Friday nights and over-the-air broadcast television (as well as the second time SmackDown has aired on a FOX-owned network). The show then moved to the sibling USA Network on January 7, 2016, and later that year, beginning on July 19, 2016, SmackDown began broadcasting live on Tuesday nights. On October 1, 2010, SmackDown moved to cable network Syfy, and would eventually return to Thursdays on January 15, 2015. The show would later move to MyNetworkTV in October 2008. The show would move to Friday nights on September 9, 2005, and, after the merger of UPN and the WB, would begin airing on The CW in September 2006. SmackDown! debuted in the United States on UPN on Apand was formerly broadcast on Thursday nights. The show is currently considered to be one of two flagship shows, along with Monday Night Raw. The show features characters from the SmackDown brand, to which WWE employees are assigned to work and perform. Fox Deportes simulcasts the program with Spanish-language commentary.

#Wwe theme songs list 2014 professional

WWE SmackDown, also known as Friday Night SmackDown or simply SmackDown, is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE that currently airs live every Friday Night at 8pm ET on Fox.