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WWE's popular television show, "Friday Night Smackdown," will be moving from Fox to USA Network next year under a new five-year domestic media rights partnership with NBCUniversal. “Smackdown,” a weekly two-hour live program that features wrestlers such as Roman Reigns, Charlotte Flair, Rey Mysterio and Bianca Belair, regularly performs strongly in the key 18-49 demographic. It's also experienced strong ratings of late with regular appearances by John Cena and an unadvertised appearance by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
WWE has confirmed that "WWE SmackDown" will move from Fox back to the USA Network starting in October of next year, marking the show's return to cable.
In its first media rights deal since the WWE merged with UFC to become TKO, the wrestling brand announced 'Smackdown' will move from Fox to USA Network