WWE Raw and WWE Smackdown Difference And Comparison

	WWE RAW	WWE Smackdown
Created by:	Vince McMahon	Vince McMahon
Country of origin:	United States of America	United States of America
No. of episodes:	1,013 (as of October 22, 2012)	643 (as of December 16, 2011)
Camera setup:	Multiple-camera setup	Multicamera setup
Running time:	Approximately 3 hours per episode (2 hour 15 minutes and commercials)	2 hours per episode (1 hour 25 minutes plus commercials)
Original run:	January 11, 1993 – present	August 26, 1999 – Present
What is it?:	Monday night professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and is the primary broadcast of the RAW brand	professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and is currently the only television broadcast for the SmackDown! brand
Original Broadcast Channel:	USA Network (1993 – 2000, 2005 – present), TNN/Spike TV (2000 – 2005)	UPN (1999–2006), The CW (2006–Present)
Current Stars:	WWE Champion - CM Punk; WWE Intercontinental Champion - Kofi Kingston; WWE Diva's Champion - Eve; WWE Tag Team Champions - Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan & Kane); WWE United States Champion - Antonio Cesaro; WWE World Heavyweight Champion - Big Show;	World Heavyweight Champion - Daniel Bryan; United States Champion - Zack Ryder; WWE Cruiserweight Champion - Vacated; WWE Tag Team Champions - Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston
Picture Format:	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)

edit Brief Description of WWE RAW and WWE Smackdown

WWE Raw is the Monday night professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and is the primary broadcast of the RAW brand. WWE Raw is generally seen as WWE's flagship program over its sister programs, SmackDown! and ECW, due to its longer history and the way it is promoted. The show currently airs live on USA Network, and on tape delay Wednesdays on mun2, and Sundays on Telemundo (in Spanish) in the United States, and in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland on Sky Sports 3. It also currently broadcasts on tape delay in Canada on The Score and Global Quebec, in Australia on FOX8, in Portugal on SIC Radical, in Malaysia on Astro Super Sport, in New Zealand on SKY 1, in India and Pakistan on Ten Sports, in the Philippines on Jack TV and RPN, in Chile on Chilevisión, in Mexico on 52MX, in Peru on ATV, in Romania on TV Sport, in South Korea on XTM, in Spain on Cuatro TV, and on AFN Xtra. Raw is also currently being aired on Etv in South Africa. It airs on Canal VTV in El Salvador. Occasionally, Raw is aired on same-day tape delay when WWE is on an overseas tour.
WWE Friday Night SmackDown! is a professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and is currently the only television broadcast for the SmackDown! brand. The SmackDown! stars typically perform four shows in a week. WWE usually tapes it Tuesday evening show for The CW to air on Friday evening of the same week. However, the show is occasionally taped on Monday nights prior to Monday Night Raw, and is also rarely held live. From its launch in 1999, SmackDown! was shown on Thursday nights, but as of September 9, 2005, the show moved to Friday nights. To reflect this change, the show is now referred to as Friday Night SmackDown!. It currently airs in the United States on The CW, in Canada on The Score Network and on CH Montreal,in Turkey on S'nek, in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan on Ten Sports, in Germany on DSF, in the UK and Republic of Ireland on Sky Sports 3, in Portugal on TVI, in the Dominican Republic on Antena Latina Channel 7, in Puerto Rico on Televicentro and on The CW, in Chile on Chilevisión, in Mexico on 52MX, in Australia on FOX8, in New Zealand on Sky 1, in the Philippines on Jack TV and RPN, in Peru on ATV , in Spain on Cuatro, in Romania on TV Sport, in Saudi Arabia and Arab World on Showtime Arabia ShowSports 1, in France on NT1, in Japan on J Sports, on e.tv in South Africa, on MTV3 MAX in Finland, on AFN Xtra, on VTV in El Salvador and on Canal 9 on Argentina, on FoX Television in Serbia.