WWE Superstars

WWE Superstars was a professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) that originally aired on WGN America in the United States. It debuted on April 16, 2009 and the final WGN America televised episode aired on April 7, 2011. The show then shifted to WWE.com from April 14, 2011 until February 28, 2014. After the launch of the WWE Network the show shifted from WWE.com to the network on March 7, 2014. The final episode would air on November 25, 2016, with the show then being replaced by 205 Live just 4 days later.
==Show history==
On December 19, 2008, WWE and WGN America announced an agreement to create a new weekly, one-hour prime time series entitled WWE Superstars that was to debut in April 2009. The show featured stars from all three of WWE's brands at the time (Raw, SmackDown, and ECW). In early 2009, WGN put out a press release hyping the revived series and revealed its new time slot for its debut. Superstars airs Thursday nights at 8:00 pm Eastern/7:00 pm Central. A replay airs at noon on Sunday WGN America. Until early 2010 the replay also aired on WGN-TV. However, it was removed, hence eliminating distribution of the show from the Canadian fanbase. Superstars had its debut show on April 16, 2009.
On March 17, 2011, WGN America announced that they would not renew their domestic broadcasts rights to WWE Superstars and the last episode they would air would be shown on April 7, 2011. Online reports stated that the network did not renew the series because it didn't live up to its expectations. WWE.com aired the show from April 14, 2011 until September 22, 2011 when it was removed from the website due to low viewing returns. The show is still in production for international broadcasting. However, it was announced on October 5, 2011 on Twitter by WWE Superstars commentator Scott Stanford that WWE Superstars will return to WWE.com beginning October 6, 2011 and will air Thursdays 4:00 pm Eastern/3:00 pm Central/1:00 pm Pacific with WWE NXT also having moved to a new day and time Wednesdays at 4:00 pm Eastern/3:00 pm Central/1:00 pm Pacific.
==Production==
The theme song for WWE Superstars was "New Day Coming" by CFO$ featuring Todd Clark, which replaced "Invincible" by Adelitas Way on May 17, 2013. WWE Superstars used the same universal WWE entrance set that has been used for WWE's primary television programs Raw, ECW, and SmackDown, since January 2008. Although WWE promoted the series as a television program that took place during one night, in reality, the matches that are set for the event are taped earlier than the broadcast day. These matches were taped during the Raw, ECW, and SmackDown recordings on Mondays and Tuesdays, respectively, and are then aired Thursdays during Superstars. As a result, the show featured brand-specific commentary throughout the show, as each brand's respective commentators announce the match for their particular show. Also the colors of the ropes change depending on the brand that was wrestling. The colors of the ring ropes were blue for SmackDown, white for Raw and were grey during the matches of the now defunct ECW brand. After the first brand extension ended, the unique rope colors would be discontinued; all broadcasts from then until the July 22, 2016 episode would feature white ropes. From July 29, 2016 until the show was cancelled, the ropes were changed back to red to show that WWE Superstars was exclusive to the Raw brand.
==Commentators==
Commentators 	Dates
Raw brand 	Raw brand
Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler 	April 16, 2009 — October 26, 2010
Scott Stanford and Jerry Lawler 	October 7, 2010October 28, 2010 — November 11, 2010November 25, 2010December 23, 2010
Michael Cole and Josh Mathews 	November 11, 2010
Scott Stanford and CM Punk 	November 18, 2010December 2, 2010 — December 16, 2010
Scott Stanford and Josh Mathews 	December 30, 2010 — October 25, 2012
Josh Mathews and Matt Striker 	November 10, 2011
Scott Stanford and Matt Striker 	March 29, 2012April 26, 2012 - May 3, 2012
Tom Phillips and Corey Graves 	July 29, 2016 – November 25, 2016
Tom Phillips and Byron Saxton 	September 2, 2016
SmackDown brand 	SmackDown brand
Todd Grisham and Jim Ross 	April 16, 2009 — October 29, 2009
Todd Grisham and Matt Striker 	November 5, 2009 — December 2, 2010
Matt Striker and Jack Korpela 	December 9, 2010 — May 26, 2011June 9, 2011 — November 3, 2011
Jack Korpela and Booker T 	June 2, 2011
Josh Mathews and Matt Striker 	November 10, 2011 — October 25, 2012
Michael Cole and Matt Striker 	April 26, 2012
ECW brand 	ECW brand
Josh Mathews and Matt Striker 	April 16, 2009 — October 22, 2009
Josh Mathews and Byron Saxton 	October 27, 2009 — February 11, 2010
Full roster 	Full roster
Scott Stanford and Matt Striker 	August 23, 2012November 2, 2012 - January 11, 2013
Tony Dawson and Matt Striker 	January 18, 2013 - June 21, 2013
Tony Dawson and Alex Riley 	June 28, 2013 - September 20, 2013
Josh Mathews and Tom Phillips 	September 27, 2013
Josh Mathews and Alex Riley 	November 15, 2013
Tom Phillips and Alex Riley 	October 4, 2013 – January 24, 2014
Tom Phillips and Byron Saxton 	January 31, 2014 – June 26, 2014January 16, 2015 – January 23, 2015May 6, 2016 – June 10, 2016
Tom Phillips and Renee Young 	July 3, 2014 – January 9, 2015
Tom Phillips 	January 30, 2015
Rich Brennan and Byron Saxton 	February 6, 2015 – March 27, 2015April 24, 2015 – May 29, 2015October 23, 2015 – April 29, 2016
Rich Brennan and Tom Phillips 	April 3, 2015 - April 10, 2015
Michael Cole and Byron Saxton 	April 17, 2015
Rich Brennan, Byron Saxton and Jimmy Uso 	June 5, 2015 – August 21, 2015
Rich Brennan and Xavier Woods 	August 28, 2015 – October 16, 2015
Kyle Edwards 	December 25, 2015
Rich Brennan and The Miz 	January 8, 2016
Tom Phillips, Dolph Ziggler and David Otunga	June 17, 2016July 1, 2016July 22, 2016
Tom Phillips and David Otunga 	June 24, 2016 – July 15, 2016
==Ring announcers==
Ring announcer 	Dates 	
Raw brand 	Raw brand 	Raw brand
Lilian Garcia 	April 16, 2009 — September 24, 2009 	
Justin Roberts 	October 1, 2009 — May 5, 2011July 14–21, 2011November 10, 2011December 29, 2011 — October 25, 2012 	
JoJo 	July 29, 2016 — November 25, 2016 	
SmackDown brand	SmackDown brand 	
Justin Roberts 	April 16, 2009 — September 24, 2009 	
Tony Chimel 	October 1, 2009 — May 5, 2011July 21, 2011December 29, 2011 — October 25, 2012 	
Savannah 	May 6, 2010 — June 17, 2010 	
Jamie Keyes 	August 12, 2010 — August 31, 2010 	
Eden Stiles 	July 14, 2011November 10, 2011 	
ECW brand 	ECW brand 	
Tony Chimel 	April 30, 2009 — September 24, 2009 	
Lauren Mayhew 	October 8, 2009 — November 19, 2009 	
Savannah 	December 17, 2009 — February 11, 2010 	
Full Roster 	Full Roster 	
Ashley Valence 	November 25, 2010 — December 9, 2010 	
Justin Roberts 	March 10, 20112014 	
Eden Stiles 	May 12, 2011 — December 22, 2011January 9, 2015April 17, 2015 — May 29, 2015October 16, 2015November 6, 2015	
Tony Chimel 	November 2, 2012 – 2014January 1, 2016 	
Lilian Garcia 	October 23, 2014 - February 26, 2016 	
Greg Hamilton 	March 4, 2016 – July 22, 2016 	
==External links==
*WWE Superstars at WGNAmerica.com
*WWE Superstars at WWE.com
* on WWE Network
==Previous Logo==
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