"WWE Friday Night Smackdown" airs live on FOX on Fridays at 8 p.m. Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, Cox, DIRECTV, and Dish Network are some of the providers available. The show is also streamed live on WWE's website. SmackDown is part of the "Friday Night Spotlight" series which features new episodes every week on FOX. Other shows in this series include: NXT (Saturday night), Super Bowl Sunday (Sunday night), and the 2018 Grammy Awards (Monday). This weekly television program was first broadcast on October 1, 1995. It premiered as a special episode called "Bret Hart: Sports Illustrated Cover Story". The main event was a match between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship but it wasn't announced as a title match until several weeks after the special. During the match, Hart's brother Owen attacked him from behind and put him through a table with a tombstone piledriver for his injury. After the match, Hart retained his championship due to being allowed to continue fighting back up to the point where he received medical attention. He would go on to lose the title to Michaels at WrestleMania 20. SmackDown has been aired regularly ever since then except for two periods: from December 1996 to March 1999 and from November 2005 to February 2006.