WWE Wrestling concert War Memorial At Oncenter tickets Other promoters were furious when McMahon began syndicating WWF television shows to television stations across the United States, in areas outside of the WWF's traditional northeastern stronghold. McMahon also began selling videotapes of WWF events outside the Northeast through WWE Wrestling's Coliseum Video distribution company. He effectively broke the unwritten law of regionalism around which the entire industry had been based. To make matters worse, McMahon used the income generated by advertising, television deals, and tape sales to poach talent from rival promoters. WWE Wrestling tour promoters nationwide were now in direct competition with the WWF.
On the May 1, 2006 edition of Raw, Joey Styles announced WWE Wrestling was quitting (kayfabe). His vacating of the announcer position set the stage for Jim Ross to return to Raw's commentary booth, thus ending the storyline where Ross got fired by Linda McMahon. This freed Styles to become a commentator for the ECW brand when it launched in June. A new television contract with Viacom led to a WWF change in the broadcast. On September 25, 2000, Raw moved from the USA Network to TNN (which later became Spike TV). The Raw is War logo and name were retired in September 2001, following the September 11, 2001 attacks and sensitivity over the word war.
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