{"id":160480,"date":"2026-04-28T16:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=160480"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:59:23","slug":"wwe-nxt-ples-found-a-new-home-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/28\/wwe-nxt-ples-found-a-new-home-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE NXT PLEs Found a New Home in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CW Network and WWE today announced that all NXT Premium Live Events (PLEs) will now air exclusively on The CW in the USA (Netflix remains the exclusive way to watch outside of the USA).<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with The Great American Bash later this summer, The CW will broadcast 20 PLEs in their entirety live on both coasts over the next several years. This includes <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/04\/nxt-stand-and-deliver-4-4-26-live-results\/\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Stand and Deliver<\/a><\/span>, Deadline, and Vengeance Day.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of NXT PLEs to The CW\u2019s lineup, the network is now the exclusive home for all NXT programming, which showcases WWE\u2019s hottest up-and-coming Superstars, also airing weekly live NXT installments every Tuesday night. WWE will continue to produce all PLEs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWWE NXT has energized our Tuesday nights by consistently delivering a loyal and passionate fanbase to The CW every week,\u201d said Brad Schwartz, President, The CW Network. \u201cAdding WWE NXT Premium Live Events to our schedule is a natural fit, providing one broadcast destination for audiences to watch all their favorite Superstars, storylines, and championship matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019ve been building something special. Now it all comes together in one place.<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWENXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWENXT<\/a> Premium Live Events and weekly TV. Only on <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheCW<\/a> this summer. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pxp50uc1c3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Pxp50uc1c3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shawn Michaels (@ShawnMichaels) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShawnMichaels\/status\/2049113120228945995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>The CW, the exclusive home of NXT<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/09\/28\/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-wwe-nxt-move-to-the-cw\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The CW entered a 5-year deal with WWE in October 2024<\/span><\/a> to bring NXT to broadcast television for the first time in the show\u2019s history. Its broadcast television debut delivered the largest audience <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tkogrp.com\/news\/the-cw-network-to-become-the-exclusive-broadcast-home-to-wwe-nxt\/\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for the program since October 2023<\/a><\/span> and was The CW\u2019s #1 telecast of the year among adults 25-54 and 18-49.<\/p>\n<p>The CW airs 52 live weekly events throughout the season every Tuesday night from 8 -10 pm ET\/PT. NXT programming features a stacked roster of up-and-coming talent, including NXT Champion Tony D\u2019Angelo and NXT Women\u2019s Champion Lola Vice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CW has played an integral role in raising the profile of our up-and-coming Superstars, and we are excited to bring NXT Premium Live Events to broadcast television for the first time, ever,\u201d said Shawn Michaels, WWE Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative.<\/p>\n<p>Launched by WWE Chief Content Officer Paul \u201cTriple H\u201d Levesque, NXT has aired weekly since 2012 and features the brightest young talent in sports entertainment. Led by Michaels, NXT on The CW has showcased the rise of several ascending WWE Superstars, including Oba Femi, Trick Williams, Tiffany Stratton, Roxanne Perez, Je\u2019Von Evans, and Sol Ruca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CW Network and WWE today announced that all NXT Premium Live Events (PLEs) will now air exclusively on The CW in the USA (Netflix remains the exclusive way to watch outside of the USA). Beginning with The Great American Bash later this summer, The CW will broadcast 20 PLEs in their entirety live on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5457,"featured_media":160552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2192,5],"tags":[9014,9015],"class_list":["post-160480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wrestling","category-nxt","tag-nxt-on-cw","tag-wwe-nxt-on-cw"],"modified_by":"Steph Franchomme","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160574,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160480\/revisions\/160574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}