What Time Does WWE NXT Start Tonight? Start Time, Channel and How to Watch

The answer — WWE NXT starts at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT on Tuesdays on The CW, and the next episode is Tuesday, Oct. 27 (numbered 2043). One date this month breaks the pattern: Halloween Havoc is on Saturday, Oct. 31, at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT on The CW, per WWE.com and The CW's listing.

What time does WWE NXT start on Tuesday, Oct. 27?

8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Central. WWE's schedule card reads "Tuesdays at 8 ET/7 CT on The CW," and The CW's published listing has 8:00 PM against Oct. 27.

That hour hasn't moved since the show left USA Network. NXT's first night on The CW was Oct. 1, 2024, and every Tuesday episode in the listings since then starts at 8. The one change of night came in election week 2024, when the episode aired on Wednesday, Nov. 6.

WWE prints Eastern and Central only. We haven't seen a Pacific or Mountain time in writing, so we don't give one here. Your local CW station's listing is the place to check out West.

What channel is NXT on?

The CW in the United States. It's a broadcast network, so the channel number depends on your city's CW station, and a cable login isn't the only way in: stations carry it over the air.

Outside the U.S., Fightful's weekly preview lists Netflix as the international home. We couldn't load The CW's own site from our desk when we tried on Friday, Oct. 9, at 4:42 a.m. ET, so we're not printing a claim about its app or next-day replays.

When is NXT on over the next six weeks?

Times come from The CW's listing as published on The Futon Critic, which has 8 p.m. ET on Oct. 27, Nov. 10, Nov. 17 and Nov. 24. The first week of November is the exception: the Futon Critic's listing shows Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m. ET rather than Tuesday, Nov. 3, while TVmaze still has Tuesday (both re-read Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 5:01 a.m. ET). The one change of night we've seen came in election week 2024, and we haven't found WWE or The CW confirming either date, so check back before relying on Tuesday.

When is Halloween Havoc, and is it on a Tuesday?

No. It's on Saturday, Oct. 31, on The CW. POST Wrestling and Wrestling Inc. both reported the date on Aug. 30, and POST added that no location had been named.

The CW's listing puts the special at 7 p.m. ET, an hour ahead of the weekly slot, and WWE.com's schedule card reads "Saturday, Oct. 31, at 7 ET/4 PT on The CW and the ESPN app" (re-read Wednesday, Oct. 21, 5:01 a.m. ET). When we read WWE's event page on Saturday, Oct. 17, it named no venue. NXT specials move around, too. Heatwave aired on a Sunday at 3 p.m. ET in August, and The Great American Bash on a Sunday at 7 p.m. ET in June.

What time does NXT end, and where is it taped?

10 p.m. ET / 9 p.m. CT by the schedule. TVmaze has every episode through the end of December at 120 minutes. Raw on Netflix runs to no fixed finish; our Raw page tracks how long recent episodes went.

On location, WWE's event calendar doesn't carry the Tuesday TV episodes. Fightful's preview for the Sept. 8 show placed it at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla. The NXT dates on the calendar this month, in Kitchener, Sudbury and Gatineau on Oct. 15 to 17, are labeled NXT Live and fall on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The previous episode, numbered 2042, aired Tuesday, Oct. 20, and WWE.com lists its results. For the other brands, see SmackDown's Friday start time, the full WWE and AEW week, and who holds the NXT titles. Everything else is on our WWE page.

👉 Next NXT: Tuesday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT on The CW.

FAQ

Is there a new NXT on Tuesday, Oct. 27? A new episode, numbered 2043, is listed on The CW at 8 p.m. ET that night.

Is NXT still on USA Network? No. Its last USA episode in the listings is Sept. 24, 2024. It has aired on The CW since Oct. 1, 2024.

Sources

• The Futon Critic — WWE NXT listings on The CW
• WWE.com — NXT schedule card and WWE.com — event calendar
• POST Wrestling — Halloween Havoc set for Oct. 31 and Wrestling Inc. — Halloween Havoc date
• Fightful — NXT preview, how to watch and location
• TVmaze — NXT episode list and runtimes

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By the Wrestling On Air desk · Updated Oct. 21, 6:15 a.m. ET