By Matt Boone on January 21, 2007 at 6:14 PM EST

The Wrestling Observer is reporting that for this Tuesday night's Smackdown & ECW tapings in Mobile, AL, ECW will be taped before Smackdown. So, the show will instead air on a tape delay this Tuesday night on Sci Fi.

Since the beginning of the new ECW brand, Smackdown had always been taped first and then the company would change the set over to ECW, going live on Sci Fi. According to some recent reports however, WWE hasn't been satisfied with the product airing live as of late. So they will be taking this measure from now on whenever possible.

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