About the current rumours of WWE leaving USA for Fox.

**RaginRonic** · 03-07-2018, 10:38 AM

As has been posted online recently, the braodcast rights for WWE's 2 biggest shows, Raw and SmackDown, seem to point to those shows leaving the NBCUniversal family of channels for Fox.

There's a slight problem with that. While Fox is available in both the U.S. and Canada, if Raw was to air on the Fox main network, it would mean that Fox would have to be blacked out in Canada, as the rights for that show are controlled by Sportsnet, owned by Rogers Communications.

It also means that all the U.S. advertising Fox would run would not be seen here, because the broadcast rules strictly forbid any U.S. ads running during any U.S. TV show, minus the core Super Bowl game telecast.

I'm just wondering how Fox would handle a situation like that for Canada's viewers to their network, and wondering if something like this should instead cause the end of the 'no U.S. ads' TV policy in Canada?

Thoughts?

03-07-2018, 10:38 AM	#1
RaginRonic Hellraiser Extraordinaire Posts: 670	About the current rumours of WWE leaving USA for Fox. As has been posted online recently, the braodcast rights for WWE's 2 biggest shows, Raw and SmackDown, seem to point to those shows leaving the NBCUniversal family of channels for Fox. There's a slight problem with that. While Fox is available in both the U.S. and Canada, if Raw was to air on the Fox main network, it would mean that Fox would have to be blacked out in Canada, as the rights for that show are controlled by Sportsnet, owned by Rogers Communications. It also means that all the U.S. advertising Fox would run would not be seen here, because the broadcast rules strictly forbid any U.S. ads running during any U.S. TV show, minus the core Super Bowl game telecast. I'm just wondering how Fox would handle a situation like that for Canada's viewers to their network, and wondering if something like this should instead cause the end of the 'no U.S. ads' TV policy in Canada? Thoughts?