WWE Raw
WWE Raw ( full title: WWE Monday Night Raw) is a wrestling show that has been produced since the 11th January, 1993 by the WWE and traditionally sent every Monday evening live. WWE RAW is high ratings and participation in pay-per- views regarded as the flagship of the WWE because of its long history.
The show ran from 1993 to 2000 on the USA Network from 2000 to 2005 Spike TV and will be broadcast on USA Network again since 2005. Since January 21, 2008, the show is broadcast in HD. In Canada, the program also runs live on The Score and in the UK on Sky Sports. In Germany, Sky Germany WWE RAW broadcast live and in full length, a summary was dated 3 March 2012 to January 2013 on Saturdays seen at Sport 1.
Due to some incidents in which rough foul language during the live broadcast aroused the displeasure of the transmitter, a time shift of three seconds was decided so that may be censored swear words and the like, if necessary on television in the future.
History
Monday Night RAW had its premiere on 11 January 1993 the station USA Network. As time first and only weekly broadcast wrestling show RAW was also one of the main reasons for the WWE success story. The real high point of RAW with the feud with Monday Nitro, where the name of Monday Nitro in the English homophonic, ie equal sounding, is to Monday Night RAW. The nitro -show WCW and RAW had partly gigantic ratings in the range of 7.0, which are especially for a wrestling show very much. On 10 May 1999 RAW abolished the highest ratings, a weekly wrestling show of all time, with 8.1 rating points. RAW is still one of the most successful weekly shows on American television.
After the purchase of WCW by the WWE went downhill slowly with RAW, as the strong competition was missing and ended the Attitude Era 2002. For this reason they gave Smackdown more and more the image of a " competition show " to RAW, because they wanted to revive some demand from fans by the apparent competition between the two shows again.
This competition was expressed in particular by the strict Roster Split, which states that no wrestler a show may occur in the "other " show. This strict separation was eased 29 August 2011, because since all WWE superstars can occur in all shows. The principle of RAW Supershow was created to support the new development on behalf bill By eliminating the roster split.
On May 17, 2012, announced that the RAW Supershow from 23 June 2012, the day on which the thousandth sequence is sent, is always held three periods, the audience will also have the opportunity to determine on the Internet match content. Since then, the program is called again simple ( Monday Night ) RAW, the principle of " Super Show " but maintained.
More shows
WWE Heat was the B -show of RAW, in which the wrestlers in each case less used the RAW roster were used. The show was recorded before RAW aired and always six days later on WWE's website. In Germany you could see Heat on opening night. On 30 May 2008 Heat was stopped and the WWE Vintage Collection took its place.
On USA Network there is also the broadcast AM Raw shows that short repeats of scenes from the last RAW show.
From April 4 to June 6, 2011 WWE Tough Enough aired on WWE RAW after.