WWF Radio

[nealo]

until trhese tournement trhreads i never knew that ever existed. was it like wrestlecrap radio where they upload podcasts or was it actually on the radio, on your dial?

[seano]

It was an actual syndicated radio thing, which I could never find it in my area (SE Mass).

[nealo]

oh right. how did it work? was it about wrestling or did it paly music?

[Cactus Jack]

Listen f***head.

[ButterFly Suplex]

It was really stupid, I remember listening one time, I believe they were at WWF NY, they were promoting the Royal Rumble that year (2000), Michael Cole was conducting interviews with Triple H, Stephanie, The Rock and a few others. Going in and out of commercials they would play the music of the guys they were interviewing. I remember they used advertise the radio station like crazy around Wrestlemania X time , I was there and saw that they had a commentating/radio setup, next to Vince and King. And the two guys that were commentating should have commentated the PPV instead... Gorilla Monsoon and Good Ole' JR

[fg76]

I think Hulk Hogan even did a 1994 interview talking about Randy Savage, right before he went to WCW. Of course, Hogan and Vince were neither on good terms or speaking terms when he did the show.

[seano]

rlopez2682 said:

I remember they used advertise the radio station like crazy around Wrestlemania X time , I was there and saw that they had a commentating/radio setup, next to Vince and King. And the two guys that were commentating should have commentated the PPV instead... Gorilla Monsoon and Good Ole' JR

Actually, JR wasn't there at WMX with Monsoon on WWF Radio. It was some other guy - identity unknown - as JR was kinda on the outs with management at the time (Vince didn't care for his commentating style, which is why he was pulled from PPVs and eventually TV and put solely on Radio - he did call a match with Monsoon at SSeries 93 and Rumble 94, but that was the extent of his PPV duties for a while)

[Deleted]

I don't remember WWF Radio; we never got it. I do remember the "WCW" wrestling talk show in the early-90s, That was on 750AM WSB out of Atlanta.
I was a DXer (a short-wave radio scanner; not a degenerate) in NW Indiana and found it on accident; I think the Packers were playing the Falcons in a late-afternoon game and my reception of WTMJ 620AM out of Milwaukee faded out of range.
So, using the knowledge I have of what team plays on what station (the Sporting News would give a run-down before the start of every season), I dialed in Atlanta and got a good feed.
I might have fell asleep, because the next thing I know, there's Jim Ross talking wrestling. But not just WCW, there were calls about the WWF and good ol' JR would be honest and give them a personal opinion.
On PPV Sundays with WCW, they would use the hour and air the audio feed from whatever PPV was on. (I remember the blow-by-blow from a Rick Steiner-Mike Rotundo match before my feed petered out. This was the only time I ever called the WCW Hotline as well, getting a PPV feed while watching scrambled signals.)

I wish they would bring this idea back, although a couple of years ago on Chicago's 670AM the Score, Jonathan Hood (a local guy who loves the White Sox and wrestling) would spend his entire Thursday talking wrestling. That was his "Thursday Night Thunder", and they'd talk WWE and TNA.

[Triple Kelly]

I think WWF Radio was one of those things that just didn't work out, mostly cause wrestling doesn't take to radio like listening to baseball or football over the airwaves.

[nealo]

yeah im doing history of broadcassting as a module at uni and in the early days of the BBC they had probs keeping up with fast paced sports like rugby and harse racing, im guessing they would have problems commentating on a comabt sport like wrestling

[MiLB Fan]

Wasn't Radio WWF only available on the Armed Forces Radio Network? I certainly don't remember getting it where I live, although Mark Madden used to host "The Wrestling Hour" on his ESPN show when wrestling was mega-hot.

[Professor Chaos]

I remember some AM radio station used to do a wrestling show on saturday nights in the early to mid 90's. I was young and this was before the internet, so I was totally shocked to hear all the backstage antics being discussed. It wasn't a WWF or WCW branded show, just covered everything in wrestling.

[nealo]

they dont cover wrestling on talksport and 5live, , wrestlings a joke in the uk

[molson5]

I remember a syndicated WWF radio show sometime in the mid-90s (it was available in the Worcester, MA area). I remember two moments from it.

1. An interview with Mo from Men on a Mission. A caller asked if he had any aspirations for the WWF World Title. There was a little bit of awkward silence before Mo said no, he's focussed on the tag team ranks.

2. The Disco Inferno (or someone claiming to be the Disco Inferno) called into a show Jerry Lawler was hosting. This was before Inferno's WCW run, I had never heard of him. Lawler claimed that he had hear of Inferno, and asked him what promotion he was wrestling out of, and Inferno told him some tiny little company I can't remember.

Everything else is a blank.

[Milkman Norm]

Sadly I was never able to enjoy this fine radio programing as It didn't seem to be avalible in my area

[nealo]

will there be a WWF podcast in the future? if so i bet they charge. typical Vince!

[bobversion1]

So here is a question.... is there anywhere to find these old broadcasts? Anyone actually tape them? Are the streaming anywhere? Just out of the sheer curiousity of what they sound like, etc...