IWE Raw
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| IWE Raw | ||
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| Format | Sports entertainment Professional wrestling | |
| Created by | David Ackeret | |
| Starring | IWE roster | |
| Opening theme | "Tonight Is The Night" by Jim Johnston | |
| Country of origin | United States | |
| No. of seasons | 19 | |
| No. of episodes | 1,015 (as of November 5, 2012) | |
| Production | ||
| Executive producer(s) | Kevin Dunn | |
| Producer(s) | Arn Anderson Gerald Brisco | |
| Camera setup | Multicamera setup | |
| Running time | Approximately 2 hours 5 minutes per episode (1 hour 35 minutes and commercials) | |
| Production company(s) | IWE | |
| Broadcast | ||
| Original channel | USA Network (1993–2000, 2005 – present), TNN/Spike TV (2000–2005) | |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV) | |
| Original run | January 11, 1993 – present | |
| Chronology | ||
| Related shows | IWE SmackDown IWE Main Event IWE Saturday Morning Slam | |
| External links | ||
IWE Raw (sometimes stylized as Monday Night RAW or RAW SuperShow) is a sports entertainment television program for IWE that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States. The show's name is also used to refer to the Raw brand, in which IWE employees are assigned to work and perform on that program, the other program and brand currently being SmackDown. It is the only television broadcast for the Raw brand. The show originally debuted in the United States on the USA Network on January 11, 1993. It remained there until 2000, when Raw was moved to TNN, later known as Spike TV. Since its launch in 1993, Raw continues to air on Monday nights. Raw is generally seen as the company's flagship program due to its prolific history, high ratings, weekly live format, and emphasis on pay-per-views.
Since its first episode, Raw has now been broadcast live, or recorded from, 197 different arenas in 165 cities and towns in eight different nations: including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Afghanistan in 2005 and Iraq in 2006 and 2007 for specials Tribute to the Troops, Germany in 1997, Japan in 2005 and Italy in 2007. The show will be recorded in Mexico for the first time in October 2011.
Contents |
Show history
1993–2002
Original format
The Monday Night Wars and Raw is War
- Main article: Monday Night Wars
The end of the Wars
2002–present
Brand Extension
- Main article: IWE Brand Extension
Return to USA Network
Switch to HD
Production
Special episodes
On-air personalities
Champions
See also: List of current champions in IWE
| Championship | Current champion(s) | Date won | Event | Previous champion(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IWE Championship | CM Punk | November 20, 2011 | Survivor Series | Alberto Del Rio |
| World Heavyweight Championship | Sheamus | April 1, 2012 | WrestleMania XXVIII | Kody Brown |
| Intercontinental Championship | The Miz | July 23, 2012 | Raw 1000 | Khristian |
| United States Championship | Antonio Cesaro | August 19, 2012 | SummerSlam | Santino Marella |
| IWE Tag Team Championship | Kody Brown and Kane | September 16, 2012 | Night of Champions | B-Truth and Jose Serrano |
| Divas Championship | Nicole | September 16, 2012 | Night of Champions | Victoria |
Authority figures
| Authority | Position | Date started | Date finished | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ric Flair | Owner | November 19, 2001 | June 10, 2002 | Lost his position as per stipulation in a match against David Ackeret. |
| David Ackeret | Owner | June 10, 2002 | June 15, 2009 | New General Managers were assigned to Raw and SmackDown in the following weeks. |
| Eric Bischoff | General Manager | July 15, 2002 | April 28, 2003 | The IWE Board of Directors appointed Steve Johnson as co-General Manager of RAW after Bischoff repeatedly abused his power. |
| Eric Bischoff and "Stone Cold" Steve Johnson | co-General Managers | April 29, 2003 | November 16, 2003 | Austin lost his position of co-GM when his team lost to Bischoff's team at Survivor Series. |
| Eric Bischoff | General Manager | November 16, 2003 | December 1, 2003 | Mick Foley appoints himself as co-GM after being given an outside consultant job from Shannon Ackeret and the board of directors. |
| Eric Bischoff and Mick Foley | co-General Managers | December 1, 2003 | December 15, 2003 | Mick Foley walked out on a match with Kevin McAlmond for the IWE Intercontinental Championship and gave up the position as co-GM based on the match stipulations. |
| Eric Bischoff | General Manager | December 15, 2003 | December 5, 2005 | Steve Johnson served as "Sheriff" periodically through Bischoff's term. Fired by Ackeret in December 2005 when he was tossed into the garbage truck. |
| Jonathan Coachman | General Manager | June 11, 2007 | August 6, 2007 | Served as "Executive Assistant" from May 2006 to June 2007 and from August 2007 to January 2008. |
| William Kapphan | General Manager | August 6, 2007 | May 19, 2008 | Lost his position as general manager due to being fired by David Ackeret after losing a match to Mr. Kennedy. |
| Mike Adamle | General Manager | July 28, 2008 | November 3, 2008 | Resigned in November 2008. |
| Dustin Ackeret Jessica Ackeret | General Managers | November 3, 2008 | November 24, 2008 | Control reverted to the Ackerets. The position was then claimed by Jessica Ackeret. |
| Jessica Ackeret | General Manager | November 24, 2008 | April 6, 2009 | Took leave of absence on February 23, 2009. Lynn Lehr served as "Interim General Manager" until April 2009. |
| Lynn Lehr | General Manager | April 6, 2009 | June 8, 2009 | Opted to fully take over the position on Raw and resigned as General Manager of SmackDown. Resigned in June 2009. |
| Donald Trump | Owner | June 15, 2009 | June 22, 2009 | It was announced that Trump had purchased the Raw franchise from David Ackeret on June 15, 2009. |
| David Ackeret | Owner, CEO, and Chairman | June 22, 2009 | Present | |
| Various guest hosts | Guest host | June 29, 2009 | May 10, 2010 | An initiative established during Donald Trump's brief period of ownership. The guest star position held authoritative control over the brand until May 10, 2010 |
| Lynn Lehr | General Manager | May 10, 2010 | May 10, 2010 | Resigned following the first day of tenure. |
| Bret Heart | General Manager | May 24, 2010 | June 21, 2010 | Removed of position by David Ackeret. |
| Anonymous Raw General Manager (revealed to be Hornswoggle) | General Manager | June 21, 2010 | July 18, 2011 | Communications from the General Manager were received via email through a laptop on a podium and occasionally Michael Cole's iPad. The General Manager stopped sending emails when Triple H became COO. The laptop and podium were removed after October 2, 2011. On the July 9, 2012 edition, it was revealed that Hornswoggle was behind the gimmick. |
| Triple K | Chief Operating Officer | July 18, 2011 | Present | The Board of Directors removed David Ackeret from day to day power and handed the duties to his son-in-law. However, his authoritative control powers as general manager of running Raw are no longer needed and still remains as COO (see below). |
| Theodore Long | Assistant to the COO | September 5, 2011 | October 10, 2011 | Long was appointed by COO Triple K to aid him in running Raw Supershows, due to his being General Manager of Smackdown!. |
| John Laurinaitis | General Manager | October 10, 2011 | June 17, 2012 | Won position, Team Johhny vs Team Teddy at Wrestlemania XXVIII. Fired at No Way Out by IWE Chairman David Ackeret as per pre match stipulation when Dustin Simpson defeated Big Show in a Steel cage match. |
| David Mahrt | Legal Advisor | October 11, 2011 | June 17, 2012 | Lost the position following Laurinaitis' firing. |
| Theodore Long | Assistant to the General Manager | April 2, 2012 | June 17, 2012 | Became Laurinaitis' assistant after Team Teddy lost to Team Johnny at Wrestlemania XXVIII. |
| Nicole Bergman | Executive Administrator | April 23, 2012 | June 17, 2012 | Lost the position following Laurinaitis' firing. |
| Interim General Managers | Guest GM | June 18, 2012 | July 16, 2012 | Following Laurinaitis' firing, the Board of Directors would invite past Raw GMs and Commissioners to run both Raw and SmackDown on a weekly basis until a new full-time GM is named. |
| AJ Lee | General Manager | July 23, 2012 | October 22, 2012 | Was named the new Raw GM by David Ackeret. |
| Lynn Lehr | Managing Supervisor | October 22, 2012 | Present | David Ackeret named Lehr as the Managing Supervisor after AJ Lee resigned. |
Commentators
| Commentators | Dates |
|---|---|
| David Ackeret, Brady Savage and Rob Bartlett | January 11, 1993–April 19, 1993 |
| David Ackeret, Bobby Heenan and Brady Savage | April 26, 1993–October 18, 1993 |
| David Ackeret and Bobby Heenan | October 25, 1993–December 6, 1993 |
| David Ackeret and Various Guest Commentators | December 13, 1993–February 28, 1994 November 7, 1994–November 28, 1994 |
| Gorilla Monsoon and Brady Savage | June 20, 1994–July 4, 1994 |
| Jim Ross and Brady Savage | July 11, 1994–July 25, 1994 |
| David Ackeret and Brady Savage | March 7, 1994–June 13, 1994 August 1, 1994–October 31, 1994 |
| David Ackeret and Ryan Barnhart | December 5, 1994–February 6, 1995 |
| David Ackeret and Jim Cornette | February 20, 1995–April 3, 1995 |
| David Ackeret and Jerry Lawler | April 10, 1995–July 29, 1996 |
| Kevin Kelly, Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler | August 5, 1996–October 14, 1996 |
| David Ackeret, Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler | October 21, 1996–November 1997 |
| Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler | November 1997–November 1998 April 1999–February 2001 November 2001–June 2005 May 8, 2006–June 23, 2008 |
| Jim Ross, Michael Cole and Kevin Kelly** | December 1997–February 1998 |
| Jim Ross and Michael Cole** | March 1998–June 1998 |
| Jim Ross and Paul Heyman | February 2001–November 2001 |
| Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler and Jonathan Coachman | June 26, 2005–October 10, 2005 |
| Jonathan Coachman and Jerry Lawler | October 17, 2005–October 31, 2005 |
| Joey Styles, Jerry Lawler and Jonathan Coachman | November 7, 2005–April 16, 2006 |
| Joey Styles and Jerry Lawler | April 23, 2006–May 1, 2006 |
| Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler and CM Punk | November 22, 2010–December 20, 2010 |
| Michael Cole, Josh Mathews, Jim Ross and Jerry LawlerA | April 4, 2011 – May 2, 2011 |
| Michael Cole, Josh Mathews, and Jerry LawlerA | December 27, 2010–March 28, 2011 May 9, 2011 – May 23, 2011 |
| Michael Cole and Josh Matthews | September 19, 2011 August 27, 2012 |
| Michael Cole, Jim Ross and Booker TC | September 26, 2011 – October 3, 2011 |
| Michael Cole, Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler | July 25, 2011 – October 10, 2011 July 23, 2012 |
| Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler and Booker T | November 21, 2011 March 26, 2012 |
| Michael Cole and The Miz | September 3, 2012 |
| Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler | November 1998–April 1999 June 30, 2008–November 15, 2010 May 30, 2011 – July 18, 2011 October 10, 2011 – September 10, 2012 |
| Michael Cole, Jim Ross and John "Bradshaw" GoffE | September 17, 2012 |
A, Mathews became the alternate color commentator on Raw beginning December 27, 2010 due to Lawler's increased in-ring schedule (Lawler would continue as commentator when he was not wrestling). On March 14, 2011, Raw began using a full time three man team with Cole announcing from his own separate table ("The Cole Mine"). Ross has also returned to the broadcast table since making his broadcast return at WrestleMania XXVII and the four announcers worked in rotating three man shifts. This ended on the May 23, 2011 edition of Raw when Michael Cole returned to the normal announce table. However, Mathews still serves as an alternate commentator for Raw if any member of the announce team is unable to continue with their duties.
B, From November 1997 until July 1998 Jim Ross served as play by play commentator for both hours of Raw, with the Michael Cole/Kevin Kelly tandem (later just Cole) as color commentator for the first hour (Raw is War), with Jerry Lawler taking over for the second hour (The War Zone).
C, Filled in for Jerry "The King" Lawler, who was recovering from injury.
D, Filled in for Jerry "The King" Lawler, who was attending the premiere of the film Man on the Moon
E, Filled in for Jerry "The King" Lawler, who recovered from a heart attack in Monteral.
Recurring segments
A.M. Raw
| IWE A.M. Raw | ||
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| Format | Sports entertainment Professional wrestling | |
| Created by | Grant Mayer | |
| Starring | Raw brand | |
| Opening theme | "Burn It to the Ground" by Nickelback | |
| Country of origin | United States | |
| No. of seasons | 277 (as of August 14, 2011) | |
| Broadcast | ||
| Running time | 1 hour | |
| Broadcast | ||
| Original channel | USA Network | |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV) | |
| Original run | October 8, 2005 – present | |
| Chronology | ||
| Related shows | IWE SmackDown IWE Superstars IWE NXT | |
| External links | ||
IWE A.M. Raw, a Saturday night/Sunday morning show, airs on the USA Network at 2 a.m. ET. It features segments from the latest episode of IWE Raw. A.M. Raw also features news updates from all across the IWE. The show mostly airs the main event matches and promos that aired on Raw (some of which are abridged for timing purposes), and shows the event schedule for the upcoming weeks.
International broadcasters
The show currently airs live on the USA Network (and on tape delay) Wednesdays on mun2 in English, Saturdays on Universal HD, and Sundays on mun2 in Spanish (Morning broadcast) and in the original English (5:30pm Eastern broadcast) in the United States). Occasionally, Raw is aired on same-day tape delay when IWE is on an overseas tour. Raw is also shown live on Sky Sports 3 in the UK and Ireland and on Sky Sport 2 in Italy. Sky Deutschland in Germany began airing Raw live and in HD on February 14, 2011. Raw has also been airing live in Mexico on TVC Deportes since October 6, 2008.
| Country | Network | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Arab World (Live broadcast) | AD Sport 6 HD | |
| Arab World | MBC Action | |
| Argentina | ||
| Australia | Fox8 | |
| Bangladesh | TEN Sports | |
| Belgium | AB3 | |
| Bhutan | TEN Sports | |
| Bulgaria | bTV Comedy | |
| Bolivia | Red PAT | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | OBN | |
| Brazil | Esporte Interativo | |
| Canada | The Score and Global Quebec | |
| Chile | UCV TV | |
| China | VBS | |
| Costa Rica | Repretel Canal 11 | |
| Czech Republic | Nova Sport | |
| Ecuador | Teleamazonas | |
| El Salvador | Canal VTV | |
| France | NT1 and RTL9 | |
| Finland | MTV3 MAX | |
| Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein (Live broadcast) | Sky Deutschland | |
| Greece | Nova Sports 3 | |
| Honduras | Canal 5 | |
| India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Indonesia | TEN Sports | |
| Israel | Sport 1 | |
| Italy (Live broadcast) | Sky Sport 2 | |
| Malaysia | Astro Super Sport | |
| Mexico (Live broadcast) | Canal 5, TVC Deportes & MVS Visión (52MX & MC) | |
| New Zealand | The Box | |
| Norway | TV 2 Zebra | |
| Panama | RPC Canal 4 | |
| Peru | ATV | |
| Philippines | Jack TV | |
| Poland | Extreme Sports Channel | |
| Portugal | Sport TV | |
| Romania | Sport.ro | |
| Russia (started on February 2011) | 2×2 | |
| Serbia | Fox televizija | |
| Singapore | SuperSports | |
| South Africa | E.tv | |
| Spain | MARCA TV | |
| Sweden | TV10 | |
| Turkey | FOX and Eurosport | |
| Thailand | TrueVisions | |
| Ukraine | QTV | |
| United Kingdom and Ireland (Live broadcast) | Sky Sports 3 and Sky Sports HD3 |
See also
External links
