Official Announcement On Peacock & WWE’s New Deal, Several New Details Emerge

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WWE Peacock

Peacock issued the following:

PEACOCK AND WWE AGREE TO MULTI-YEAR PARTNERSHIP TO EXCLUSIVELY LIVE STREAM ICONIC SATURDAY NIGHTโ€™S MAIN EVENT SERIES

Featuring WWEโ€™s Top Superstars, Championship Matches and More, Saturday Nightโ€™s Main Event to Stream in Primetime on Peacock Four Times Each Year

Saturday Nightโ€™s Main Event on Dec. 13, 2025, Headlined by WWE Superstar John Cenaโ€™s Retirement Match, Streams Live Exclusively on Peacock

Peacock Continues to Host WWE Network Library Through End of 2025 and NXT Events Through March 2026

Peacock Remains Home of Encore SmackDown Library, and USA Network Continues as Exclusive Live Home of SmackDown on Friday Nights

STAMFORD, Conn. โ€“ Aug. 20, 2025 โ€“ Peacock and WWEยฎ, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), today announced a multi-year partnership agreement to exclusively stream the iconic Saturday Nightโ€™s Main Event series live on Peacock.

Saturday Nightโ€™s Main Event will stream in primetime exclusively on Peacock four times each year, featuring WWEโ€™s top Superstars, rivalries, championship matches, and more.

Peacock will exclusively stream two nights of Saturday Nightโ€™s Main Events this year, with the first taking place on November 1. Additionally, Saturday Nightโ€™s Main Event on Dec. 13 will feature John Cena in his retirement match.

The WWE Network library will remain available on Peacock through the end of 2025, and NXT Premium Live Events will be available on Peacock until March 2026.

Throughout the term of the partnership, the SmackDown library will remain on Peacock on a 30-day delay and USA Network will continue as the live exclusive home of SmackDown on Friday nights.

โ€œWeโ€™re excited to bring Saturday Nightโ€™s Main Event exclusively to Peacock beginning this fall,โ€ said WWE Chief Content Officer Paul โ€œTriple Hโ€ Levesque. โ€œNBCU have been terrific longtime partners, and we look forward to continuing to work with them for years to come.โ€

โ€œPeacock has had a wonderful relationship with the WWE and weโ€™re excited to see it continue far into the future,โ€ said Rick Cordella, President, NBC Sports. โ€œSaturday Nightโ€™s Main Event is some of the most premium content the WWE produces, including John Cenaโ€™s upcoming retirement match, and it will be all live and exclusive on Peacock.โ€

Saturday Nightโ€™s Main Event originally premiered on NBC in 1985, and ran on the network until 1991. The popular event returned to NBCUniversal in September 2024 with a special Saturday Nightโ€™s Main Event on NBC and Peacock from Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island, N.Y., the site of the first-ever Saturday Nightโ€™s Main Event.