WWE goes HD

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World Wrestling Entertainment announced eginning the week of 1/21, WWE’s Monday Night RAW and A.M. RAW on USA, ECW: Extreme Championship Wrestling on SCI FI Channel, and Friday Night SmackDown on The CW will all be delivered in HD.  WWE will also broadcast its pay-per-views in HD, starting with Royal Rumble on January 27. WWE’s switch to high-def was made possible by a series of upgrades to the company’s television studios in Stamford, Conn.  The 20 million HD renovations included refitting of equipment to broadcast WWE programming and global pay-per-view programming in HD on cable and satellite systems around the world.