One of the most watched shows in WWE is definitely Friday Night SmackDown, a program that WWE has been airing every Friday night for years now, currently on FOX television. As widely reported in recent months, the federation of Stamford has signed a new agreement to bring back Friday Night SmackDown on NBC Universal networks, more precisely on the channel USA Network, which currently broadcasts both NXT and Monday Night Raw.
The red flag show on Monday night, instead, will be moved to Netflix in the US, with the agreement signed between WWE and the pay-TV giant that will bring several hundred million in the company’s coffers year after year; while NXT will move to CW. Initially, however, SmackDown was supposed to suffer on USA Network from October, while instead later it was reported that the two companies have found a new agreement to start a month earlier.
In the episode of WWE Raw aired yesterday August 26th, 2024, Corey Graves joined commentator Michael Cole to comment on the episode as Pat McAfee has been absent from the show for all of 2024 to devote himself to the show ESPN College GameDay, and will be back in 2025 when Raw is on Netflix.
Update on Michael Cole and Corey Graves
Veteran comment table Michael Cole then announced that he and Corey Graves will be the SmackDown comment team when the show moves to USA Network on September 13, 2024. Surely then at Monday Night Raw there will be the recently hired Joe Tessitore and we have to figure out who will work with him, probably Wade Barret, but we’ll see.
After returning to simply be the reporter at the edge-ring, for Michael Cole there was a second youth at the comment table with Pat McAfee, his current news partner for Friday Night Smackdown and then Raw and with which in one of the episodes of the podcast of the first, the Pat McAfee Show, the two wanted to reveal how Cole suffers from an ear disorder, which has led him over the years to lose 65% of his hearing.