WWE Smackdown To Remain On Friday Nights

Back in August, speculation had begun to flow into that WWE and therefore the Syfy Network were aiming to move Smackdown back to Thursday nights. The move was confirmed once Syfy updated their fall programming schedule on their official web site. As of these days, that schedule still lists Smackdown as airing on Thursdays at 8:00 PM. However, word is currently coming back in this Syfy has once more modified their plans and can keep WWE’s secondary program on Fri nights for the nonce.
Smackdown originally debuted manner back in 1999. On Apr twenty ninth of that year, WWE ventilated a pilot for the potential new program. Following the printed of the pilot, Smackdown was picked up by UPN and supplemental to their Thursday night schedule. The weekly episodic show got its begin on August twenty six, 1999. Following a merger between UPN and therefore the weber, Smackdown was emotional to the new CW Network. The show conjointly went through a modification in timeslot — being emotional to Fri night’s in 2005.