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21st Century Fox still doesn’t know whether Disney or Comcast will be its new parent company, but Fox Broadcasting’s sports-heavy future has been solidified with a new five-year deal to bring WWE’s SmackDown Live to the network.
Fox Sports announced that it has landed rights to SmackDown Live, which will air on Fox every Friday night for the next five years, starting on Oct. 4, 2019.
USA Network, which previously aired both SmackDown Live and Monday Night Raw, opted to only keep Raw going forward, and signed its own five-year extension for that wrestling franchise.
The new deal means that starting in fall 2019, three nights of Fox’s broadcast primetime schedule will be devoted to sports programming: Thursday Night Football, which Fox will air for the next five years, SmackDown Live on Fridays and college football on Saturdays.
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