RAW wrestling is a sports entertainment program for World Wrestling Entertainment, currently airing on the USA Network. The RAW trademark is also the brand WWE performers and staff are assigned to. SmackDown and ECW are other WWE programs and brands. On January 11, 1993, RAW run on USA Network for the first time in America. For the next 7 years it stayed with USA Network till it was moved to TNN or Spike Television in two thousand. The show moved back to USA Network in 2005 and continues airing on Mon. nights, making it a Mon.
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1995 witnessed the launching of Mon. On Sep eleven, 1995, RAW and Nitro squared off for the first time. With taped shows, RAW faced some challenges competing with a weekly live show. Eric Bischoff, WCW VP recognized the good thing about a live broadcast as he would give away results of RAW's taped shows on several occasions. The web was also a source of information and results for fans, causing RAW ratings to say no. WWE, which was then World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ), started airing live every other week until September 1999. Ratings and pay-per-view sales grew and finally justified airing a live show weekly. The beginning of the ratings battle in 1995 to mid-1996 saw RAW and Nitro exchanging victories over the other. In mid-1996, WCW came out with major victories, with the NOW angle as a major factor, as Mon. Nitro enjoyed an eighty-four-week ratings winning streak, ending only on April 13, 1998. Putting a stop to the Wars However, the fall in WCW's revenues forced Time Warner to sell the company to WWF in 2001. Nitro's final episode aired on March 26, 2001. RAW Wrestling's War name and logo were retired due to people's sensitivity for the word "War" after the 9/11 attacks. .
