Notes including WWE/USA commercial, RAW on TSN, and Jim Neidhart
On Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 2:24 AM EST Adam Lebow sent in the following items:
* On USANetwork.com, they have posted the latest WWE Commercial which is playing on their TV, which includes Ric Flair. It is actually just an extended version of the one where the ring is dragged along. To view it, click here.
* I went and checked out the TSN information for Raw Homecoming, after seeing that WWE Canada issued a press release and her is the down low on exactly what is happening. As I speculated before, TSN will NOT be pushing ESPN Monday Night Countdown from its 7:30-9pm timeslot on the network, and instead will be airing WWE Raw Homecoming on a 1 hour tape delay, starting in the usual 9 pm et timeslot and will have it overrun for an hour, ending at or around midnight, which will eventually be lead into Sportscenter. After a shortened 30 minute production of TSN Sportscenter, at 12:30 am ET TSN will air the RAW Exposed special, until 1:30 am, effectively eliminating the West Coast Prime Time edition of Raw. The 1/2 hour between Raw Exposed ending and the 2 am Sportscenter will be a special 2005 Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Swimsuit Calandar Show. Raw homecoming will replay at 3 pm ET on Tuesday, and there will NOT be a 3rd replay of WWE Raw in a floating time slot. Moreover, the WWE Canada press release mentions that Monday Oct. 3 at 3:30 p.m. ET there will be WWE Raw Exposed, but a look at the TSN website mentions that from 3:30 - 4:30 pm ET there will be the 2004 X-Games Classix - Supermoto for Global. Not sure if that is a mistake on TSN's part or not, but currently Exposed is not on the TSN website for Monday.
Update: During the 12 am replay of Raw on TSN, they had the WWE Slam Jam segment and when WWE announced the WWE Raw Exposed segment, there was no mention made of the 3:30 pm ET episode on Monday that the WWE Canada press release announced yesterday, as the advertisement blatantly stated it would air on TSN at 12:30 am ET early Tuesday morning.
* I was watching the 2 am ET edition of TSN Sportscenter, and when they were showing the NY Yankee/Balitmore highlights, they showed Jim Neidhart, with TSN anchor Onehrit saying that 'Neidhart was not looking impressed', in regards to Balitmore's effort. It wasn't a flattering image of Neidhart and for anyone who cares, the Yankees won.