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Backstage news regarding WWE RAW becoming two hours again and the show’s length on Netflix

Aaron Rift

On Monday night, it was announced that WWE RAW will be moving back to two hours for the final three months on the USA Network. In regards to RAW’s length on Netflix in January of 2025, Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com noted the following during Wrestling Observer Radio…

“It’s a three-hour show when it moves to Netflix. I got it confirmed a few minutes ago. The basic situation is that it was a USA Network call not a WWE call. I’m not sure why. It will boost the ratings of the show because they won’t have the third hour that drags down the average, but I’m not sure exactly why USA made the call.

October 7 will be the first show under the new three month contract, which is the $25 million deal for three months, which is way below market value. So for that three month period WWE had the choice between Peacock or USA essentially. Peacock was not willing to pay extra, they would have taken it and taken the three hours and I guess USA was only going to take the two hours because maybe they had something planned. The plans were to drop Raw at the end of this month. And so whatever it was this was the way that was all worked out, that they were going to take it for two hours.” (quote courtesy of WrestleTalk.com)

Twitter/X account @WrestleVotes wrote the following…

”Regarding the news of RAW switching to 2 hours for the rest of the year, I’ve heard that many production and social staff who work behind the scenes found out in real time, just like the rest of us.

As for what this means for 2025 and Netflix, one source said WWE is eagerly anticipating the freedom to vary run times as needed. No firm decision has been made either way.”