WWE Superstars | |
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Genre | |
Created by | Vince McMahon |
Starring | Raw roster |
Opening theme | "New Day Coming" by CFO$ feat. Todd Clark |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 7 |
No. of episodes | 398 |
Production | |
Camera setup | Multicamera setup |
Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
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Original network |
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Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | April 16, 2009 | – November 25, 2016
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Website |
WWE Superstars, or simply Superstars, was a professional wrestling television program produced by WWE that originally aired on WGN America in the United States and later broadcast on the WWE Network. It debuted on April 16, 2009 and ended its domestic broadcasting on April 7, 2011 . After the final domestic TV broadcast, the show moved to an internet broadcast format while maintaining a traditional television broadcast in international markets. The show featured mid-to-low card WWE superstars in a format similar to the former shows Heat and Velocity. which served the same purpose. "Enhancement talent" bouts also happened often. Big names such as John Cena, Randy Orton and Triple H appeared on the show at its beginning.
On December 19, 2008WGN America announced an agreement to create a new weekly, one-hour prime time series entitled WWE Superstars that was to debut in April 2009 . At the beginning, the show featured stars from all the WWE brands. In early 2009, WGN put out a press release hyping the revived series and revealed its new time slot for its debut. Superstars aired Thursday nights at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central. A replay aired at noon on Sunday on WGN America. Until early 2010 the replay also aired on WGN-TV. However, it was removed, hence eliminating distribution of the show from the Canadian fanbase.Superstars had its debut show on April 16, 2009 .
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