Report: Disney Interested In WWE US Media Rights

An update on WWE's media rights in the United States has emerged. 

USA Network currently holds the rights to Monday Night Raw until October 2024 on a $265 million per year deal, while FOX airs Friday Night SmackDown until October of next year on a deal of $205 million per year. Both networks and WWE had been in an exclusive negotiating window to renew those deals but those periods have since expired. 

This means WWE can now take Raw and SmackDown to the open market. Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reported that FOX and USA are "most likely to re-up" with WWE but there are other parties interested in acquiring the media rights for Raw and SmackDown in the United States.

According to Marchand, one of those parties is Disney, who would be interested in airing SmackDown and Raw on FX. Amazon Prime Video will also "be in the talks for WWE". 

Dark horses for the media rights include Apple and Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD already airs professional wrestling from AEW on their networks TBS and TNT and Tony Khan's promotion does not have an exclusivity clause in their deals with WBD.