ECW was a
professional wrestling television program produced by
WWE, based on the independent
Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion that lasted from 1992 to 2001. The show's name also referred to the ECW
brand, in which WWE employees were assigned to work and perform, complementary to WWE's other brands,
Raw and
SmackDown. It debuted on June 13, 2006, on
Sci Fi in the United States and ran for close to four years until it aired its final episode on February 16, 2010, on the rebranded Syfy. It was replaced the following week with
WWE NXT.