Premiere date revealed for WWE NXT on The CW

A date has officially been set for WWE NXT’s arrival on The CW Network.

The CW revealed its fall premiere schedule today, confirming that NXT will make its debut on the channel on October 1. NXT is staying on Tuesday nights and will remain in its 8-10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific time slot.

Last year, WWE announced that it had agreed to a five-year deal to bring NXT to The CW starting in October 2024. USA Network had been the show’s television home since 2019. NXT will finish out its run on USA over the next few months until starting on The CW.

Acquiring the rights to NXT is part of The CW’s strategy to add live programming and enhance its sports portfolio. In an interview with Variety last month, CW President Dennis Miller explained why he felt NXT was a fit for the network.

“We knew that Raw and SmackDown were a little bit beyond our budget here,” Miller said. “Then if you look, we have a lot of sports where we have kind of that next tier moving into the first tier here, whether it’s the Xfinity races leading into the Cup, or it’s NXT leading into Raw and SmackDown. So it just started to fit. Then over the course of a couple of months, we went back and forth and got the deal done.”

SmackDown and Raw are both also moving networks in their next TV deals. SmackDown will move from Fox to USA Network starting this September. Raw moves from USA to Netflix in January 2025.