SmackDown is the WWE brand featured on the show (WWE brand). See WWE SmackDown for additional applications (disambiguation). SmackDown is a professional wrestling television program that began on April 29, 1999. It is also known as Friday Night SmackDown or just SmackDown. The initial Raw lasted sixty minutes and set a new standard for broadcast professional wrestling. Wrestling programs were traditionally filmed on sound stages with small crowds or at enormous arena spectacles. Furthermore, the broadcast table was relocated to the entry ramp, as it had been from 2002 to 2005. [Citation required] On January 22, 2018, WWE commemorated the 25th anniversary of Raw with a simulcast show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and the Manhattan Center, which hosted the original Monday Night Raw.