WCW Monday Nitro
Nitro logo from 1995 to 1999
Genre	Professional wrestling
Created by	Ted Turner Eric Bischoff
Directed by	Craig Leathers (1995–1999, January–March 2001) Rick Fansher (1999–April 2000) Mike Miller (April–December 2000)
Starring	World Championship Wrestling roster
Opening theme	"Monday Night Nitro Theme/Mean Streets" by Jonathan Elias (September 4, 1995 – March 29, 1999) "Adrenaline V.1" by Purity (April 5, 1999 – March 26, 2001)
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	288
Production
Producers	Eric Bischoff Craig Leathers Vince Russo Tony Schiavone
Production location	Various locations in North America
Camera setup	Multi-camera setup
Running time	1 hour (September 4, 1995 – May 20, 1996, April 28 – May 19, 1997, April 27, May 4, May 18, 1998, April 3, 2000) 2 hours (May 27, 1996 – April 21, 1997, May 26 – July 28, 1997, August 11–25, 1997, September 8 – December 15, 1997, December 29, 1997 – January 19, 1998, April 28, 1998, January 3 – March 27, 2000, April 10, 2000 – March 26, 2001) 3 hours (August 4, September 1, December 22, 1997, January 26 – April 20, May 11, May 25, 1998 – May 3, 1999, May 17 – December 27, 1999)
Original release
Network	TNT
Release	September 4, 1995 (1995-09-04) – March 26, 2001 (2001-03-26)
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WCW Monday Nitro, also known as WCW Nitro or simply Nitro, is an American professional wrestling television program that was produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and broadcast weekly every Monday night on TNT in the United States from September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001. Created by then WCW owner Ted Turner and Vice President Eric Bischoff, it was the flagship weekly show produced by the company.

Nitro featured wrestlers contracted to WCW. Besides broadcasting from various arenas and locations across the United States and Canada, such as Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota (from which the first episode was broadcast), Nitro also organized special broadcasts from the Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando in 1996; aired annual Spring Break-Out episodes from Panama City Beach, Florida or South Padre Island, Texas starting in March 1997; and filmed some episodes in Australia and the United Kingdom during the Fall of 2000.

At its peak, Nitro was the highest-rated show on primetime TV.^[1][2] Its premiere was notable for sparking a period of television known as the "Monday Night War": for the entirety of the show's run, Nitro went head-to-head in the ratings with the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF; now WWE) Monday Night Raw. Nitro began to dominate in ratings in 1996, based largely on the strength of the WCW's New World Order (nWo) kayfabe rebellious group. Raw began to overtake Nitro in the ratings in 1998 thanks to the WWF's revamped Attitude Era programming. In March 2001, TNT canceled the show.^[3]

The rights to WCW Monday Nitro now belong to WWE, who purchased WCW properties in 2001. The WWE has released three Best of WCW Monday Nitro DVD sets^[4] and all episodes are available for streaming on the WWE Network and Peacock.^[5] In 2025, WWE started uploading episodes to a WCW YouTube channel.^[6]