WWE Announces New Multi-Year Partnership Deal with Peacock for Saturday Night’s Main Event

As noted before, WWE announced on Wednesday that their new media rights deal with ESPN to air their WWE PLEs on ESPN’s new streaming service will be starting earlier than originally announced, now officially kicking off with next month’s Wrestlepalooza event. This new deal was possible due to WWE negotiating a separate deal with Peacock to end their media rights deal for PLEs earlier than scheduled in return for Peacock getting new WWE main roster programming to broadcast on their service.

NBC Sports announced that Peacock and WWE recently signed a new multi-year partnership deal for WWE’s Saturday Night’s Main Event to broadcast exclusively on Peacock’s streaming service.

It was also announced that the WWE Network library will remain available on Peacock through the end of 2025 and NXT Premium Live Events will remain available on Peacock until March of 2026.

Official press release:

PEACOCK AND WWE AGREE TO MULTI-YEAR PARTNERSHIP TO EXCLUSIVELY LIVE STREAM ICONIC SATURDAY NIGHT’S MAIN EVENT SERIES

Featuring WWE’s Top Superstars, Championship Matches and More, Saturday Night’s Main Event to Stream in Primetime on Peacock Four Times Each Year

Saturday Night’s Main Event on Dec. 13, 2025, Headlined by WWE Superstar John Cena’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. – Aug. 20, 2025 – Peacock and WWE^®, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), today announced a multi-year partnership agreement to exclusively stream the iconic Saturday Night’s Main Event series live on Peacock.

Saturday Night’s Main Event will stream in primetime exclusively on Peacock four times each year, featuring WWE’s top Superstars, rivalries, championship matches, and more.

Peacock will exclusively stream two nights of Saturday Night’s Main Events this year, with the first taking place on November 1. Additionally, Saturday Night’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.

“We’re excited to bring Saturday Night’s Main Event exclusively to Peacock beginning this fall,” said WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque. “NBCU have been terrific longtime partners, and we look forward to continuing to work with them for years to come.”

“Peacock has had a wonderful relationship with the WWE and we’re excited to see it continue far into the future,” said Rick Cordella, President, NBC Sports. “Saturday Night’s Main Event is some of the most premium content the WWE produces, including John Cena’s upcoming retirement match, and it will be all live and exclusive on Peacock.”

Saturday Night’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 Night’s Main Event on NBC and Peacock from Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island, N.Y., the site of the first-ever Saturday Night’s Main Event.