Post by spike2454 on Jan 10, 2015 23:44:23 GMT -5
RTN who will be releasing there first schedule for next week very soon has just announced they have picked up some sporting events for the remainder of the year. RTN who is a new Federal network has picked up the rights to WWE Raw and WWE Smackdown until the end of the year. WWE Raw will air Live on Monday night while WWE Smackdown will air delayed on Friday night as Smackdown is not taped live.
RTN has also picked up the remaining three Nascar events until the end of the current Season. Three events will air dealyed on RTN starting with Texas Motor Speedway on Monday at 3pm (a day later) with a highlights package shown later in the week. The same will be done for the races at Phoenix International Speedway and the last race at Homestead-Miami airing at the same delayed time.
RTN has also picked up the last three races of the current Formula One Season which will be shown on delay. The race from Abu Dhabi will be shown in full on delay on the 11/05 at the special time of 8:30pm. The race from USA (Austin) on the 11/17 will be shown on delay that night at the special time of 8:30pm. The last race from Brazil on 11/24 will be shown also on delay at a time TBA.
These are some major coups from the RTN who have not announced there Head of Programming as of yet. Time will tell whether these were right pick ups for RTN to go with there upstart programming or whether RTN should stick to writing shows.