****GREAT NEWS FOR UK FANS****
***Press Release from Sky Sports***
Sky has recently signed a new five year agreement with World Wrestling Entertainment and from the beginning of 2005 will carry all nine first run hours of WWE's seven weekly programmes including, for the first time, a weekly live showing of WWE RAW on Monday nights.
WWE RAW - Live on Sky Sports on Mondays nights at 2.00am, repeated Wednesday evenings at 9.00pm
WWE Smackdown - Sky Sports Fridays at 9.30pm
WWE Heat - Sky Sports Sundays
WWE Velocity - Sky Sports Sundays
WWE Bottom Line - Sky Sports Fridays
WWE After Burn - Sky Sports Sundays
WWE Experience - Sky One Sundays
In addition, during negotiations Sky accepted a request from WWE to include more live events on Pay-Per-View and therefore Sky Box Office will now show eight events annually, including the favourites Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble, Summerslam and Survivor Series.Furthermore, there will be six monthly Specials also shown LIVE on Sunday evenings on Sky Sports.
All programming is subject to change and where appropriate will be shown completely uncut when scheduled for late evening viewing. Repeats suitable for daytime will be edited.
LOG ONTO: SKY Sports for press release
****ALL NEW LINE UP FOR WWE PROGRAMMING STARTING ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31st. CHECK OUT NEW LISTINGS IN TABLE BELOW.*******
WWE Experience will be shown for the first time in the UK starting on Sunday, January 2nd 2005.
WWE Raw will air live in the UK for the first time starting on Tuesday, January 4th at 2am on Sky Sports.
Smackdown will move to a new slot on Fridays starting December 31st at 9.30pm on Sky Sports 3.