World Wrestling Entertainment® announced today it will make broadcast
television history on October 2, 2009 by commemorating 10 years of Friday
Night SmackDown®. A themed episode celebrating a
“Decade of SmackDown” will air on MyNetworkTV at 8 PM ET / 7 CT.
“Decade of SmackDown” will draw WWE Superstars and Divas from all WWE®
shows to commemorate this milestone.
As a pop culture staple, SmackDown:
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has aired more than 520 episodes, surpassing The Simpsons, Married
With Children, and Law & Order, just to name a few, in
total episodes
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has been watched more than 2.7 billion times by viewers in the U.S.
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is seen in 79 countries internationally and airs in 22 languages
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has featured such celebrities as Samuel L. Jackson, Ashton Kutcher,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jimmy Kimmel and Sherri Shepherd
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is MyNetworkTV’s most-watched telecast among households and
total viewers
SmackDown has been instrumental in the success of each of the
networks that have aired the program. The show moved to its current
home, MyNetworkTV, in October 2008 and is the number one show on
broadcast television on Friday nights among Males 50 and under. Friday
Night SmackDown also dominates the P18-49 demographic, can be seen
every Friday night at 8 PM ET on MyNetworkTV.
ABOUT WWE
World
Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., a publicly traded company (NYSE:
WWE), is an integrated media organization and recognized leader in
global entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses
that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global
audience. WWE is committed to family-friendly, PG
content across all of its platforms including television
programming, pay-per-view, digital media and publishing. WWE programming
is broadcast in more than 145 countries and 30 languages and reaches
more than 500 million homes worldwide. The company is headquartered in
Stamford, Conn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London,
Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
Additional information on World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:
WWE) can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com.
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