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NWA Power to air on X for next five weeks

Posted on by Joseph Currier

For the next five weeks, the NWA will be airing its content on X/Twitter.

The promotion announced today that, starting this Tuesday and running weekly through October 29, episodes of NWA Power will air on the NWA’s X account at 6:05 p.m. Eastern time. The five episodes will feature matches from NWA 76, the promotion’s yearly anniversary show that was taped in Philadelphia at the end of August.

“We wanted to reward all of our loyal fans domestically and around the globe by allowing them to see our spectacular anniversary show,” the NWA’s Joe Galli said. “Especially to those fans who may have been missing out on NWA Power over the past few months.”

This Tuesday, NWA Power will be headlined by EC3 defending his NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship against Thom Latimer. There will also be a Tag Team title match with Alex Taylor & Kerry Morton challenging Mike Knox & Trevor Murdoch.

The move comes as NWA content is leaving The CW app today. Episodes of NWA Power have been airing weekly on The CW app since February.

WWE NXT premieres on The CW Network this Tuesday with The CW set to be NXT’s television home for the next five years.

WWE & X’s partnership for WWE Speed is two-year deal

Posted on by Joseph Currier

WWE’s new partnership with X (formerly known as Twitter) is a multi-year deal.

During the company’s WrestleMania 40 press event on Thursday, WWE announced that a new series named WWE Speed will begin streaming on X in spring 2024. The series will feature matches with five-minute time limits.

The Hollywood Reporter notes that WWE and X’s agreement for the series is a two-year deal. New episodes will air every week exclusively on X.

Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

The Hollywood Reporter wrote:

The WWE, meanwhile, has been dramatically reworking its rights deals since becoming TKO last year in its merger with Endeavor’s UFC. Most recently, Netflix inked a 10-year, $5 billion deal for Raw and the WWE’s international rights; SmackDown left Fox for USA Network (with some specials on NBC); and WWE NXT left USA for The CW.

WWE Speed, given its weekly cadence and short run time, is a smaller deal than those long-form programs, but it does suggest a willingness by the WWE to slice and slice rights and to look for new ways to add rights revenue since Endeavor acquired a controlling stake.

Last December, the WWE Speed concept debuted with a pilot that was taped before an episode of SmackDown. It included wrestlers from the main roster and NXT. Bronson Reed vs. Nathan Frazer and Cedric Alexander vs. Axiom were the matches that were filmed.