WWE SmackDown
Channel Timeslot Years
UPN Thursday 8-10 p.m . ET April 29 , 1999 August 26 , 1999 - September 1 , 2005
UPN Friday 8-10 p.m . ET September 9 , 2005 - September 15 , 2006
The CW Friday 8-10 p.m . ET September 22 , 2006 - September 26 , 2008
MyNetworkTV Friday 8-10 p.m . ET October 3 , 2008 - September 24 , 2010
Syfy Friday 8-10 p.m . ET October 1 , 2010 - January 9 , 2015
Syfy Thursday 8-10 p.m . ET January 15 , 2015 - December 31 , 2015
USA Thursday 8-10 p.m . ET January 7 , 2016 - July 14 , 2016
USA Tuesday 8-10 p.m . ET July 19 , 2016 - September 24 , 2019
Fox Fox Deportes FS1 Friday 8-10 p.m . ET October 4 , 2019 - present
Broadcast history
WWE SmackDown, also known as Friday Night SmackDown or simply SmackDown, is a professional wrestling television program that debuted on April 29, 1999. The show's name also refers to the SmackDown brand, to which WWE employees are assigned to work and perform. SmackDown is considered to be one of WWE's two flagship shows, along with Raw. SmackDown currently broadcasts live on Friday nights on the Fox network, beginning on October 4, 2019, filling the entirety of the network's Friday night schedule; Fox Deportes simulcasts the program with Spanish language commentary. SmackDown! debuted in the United States on UPN on April 29, 1999 and was formerly broadcast on Thursday nights. The show would move to Friday nights on September 9, 2005, and, after the merger of UPN and the WB, would begin airing on The CW in September 2006. The show would later move to MyNetworkTV in October 2008. On October 1, 2010, Smackdown moved to cable network Syfy, and would eventually return to Thursdays on January 15, 2015. The show then moved to the sibling USA Network on January 7, 2016, and later that year, beginning on July 19, 2016, SmackDown began broadcasting live on Tuesday nights. SmackDown's move to Fox on October 4, 2019 marked the show's return to Friday nights and over-the-air broadcast television (as well as the second time SmackDown has aired on a Fox-owned network). SmackDown has been broadcast from 163 arenas, in 148 cities and towns, in seven countries (the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Iraq in 2003 and 2004 for Tribute to the Troops, Japan in 2005, Italy in 2007, and Mexico in 2011).