AFN Gets WWE’s Great American Bash
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. will offer its upcoming SmackDown! Pay-Per-View, The Great American Bash free for broadcast on the American Forces Network.
The Great American Bash will air live on pay-per-view from the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday at 8 p.m. (EST), and AFN will carry the event on AFN Spectrum the following day at 9 p.m. (local time) in Japan, Korea and central Europe.
“The Armed Forces have shown WWE great support during our base visits and hospital visits, so we look at this broadcast as one way that we can honor all of them for their bravery and courage,” WWE executive vice president of television production Kevin Dunn said in a prepared statement.
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