Vince McMahon had originally different plans for WWE’s flagship show, Monday Night Raw as revealed by WWE producer, Bruce Prichard.
Vince McMahon wanted to have his own venue for the show
During the Not Sam podcast on the WWE Network, Bruce Prichard revealed that Vince McMahon’s original idea was to buy a building.
He intended to produce a TV show in-house in order to save the expenses. The company had rented out the expensive, Manhattan Center for their pilot episode.
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Bruce Prichard revealed:
“The original concept behind doing Raw was to do a live weekly show to build a small studio arena in Stamford and the concept was to save money by doing that. To tour and then come back to Stamford on Monday and have that studio that we owned. A little arena that we owned, that we could control and ‘this is going to save money, this is going to be revolutionary that we’re not going to go rent a building. Flip that to several weeks later and we’re in the Manhattan Center, one of the most expensive pieces of property in the country and we are just like, ‘holy cow this became a big production.”
WWE RAW is the longest running weekly episodic television show in history. The show has evolved over the years since the debut on January 11th, 1993.
