WWE NXT will be leaving the USA Network in the coming year, as NXT TV will begin airing on The CW network in the fall when WWE’s current deal with the network expires. The five-year contract reportedly increased NXT’s earnings by 70% over what they were receiving from the USA Network.
In recent months, the show has featured Paul Heyman, Becky Lynch, John Cena, Finn Balor, Seth Rollins, Cody Rhodes, Dominik Mysterio, The Undertaker, Rhea Ripely, and several others.
Dave Meltzer mentioned on Wrestling Observer Radio that WWE has discussed taking NXT TV on the road beginning next year.
“They’re going to keep sending the main roster stars down to the show. And as far as anything else goes, there’s talk about taking them touring with the extra money. There are pluses and minuses of it. The pluses are, I think that if it’s if it looks good and looks better, we’ve seen with Raw, we’ve seen with everyone that when it looks good on TV, the look of the TV show is very, very important when it comes to viewership. So moving to bigger places will help to a degree. But the developmental aspect of the thing, if you are taking the people and you’re taking them out of town the travel days and everything like that, it does give them less days in the gym. And it does take a lot of the people who work with the talent away for a couple of days. So there is negativity towards unless like they do arenas in Florida. But the problem with doing arenas in Florida is there are only so many before you burn out the audience. So especially in that area. It would help the show. It would help the numbers for them to move to a bigger setting. They’d sell more tickets. Things like that bring in revenue in that way. I don’t know if they’d sell enough tickets to offset the expense of going, but they might. All of this remains to be seen. But with the new money, it’s more affordable to do that,” Meltzer stated.
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
