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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Feb 24, 2011 17:32:55 GMT -5
in Australia on channel 9 we used to get a edited 1 hour version of Nitro called International Nitro that was about 2 weeks behind and we got that from 1999 till it closed i think We got that as well in nz but it was 3 to 4 months behind.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Feb 26, 2011 3:20:20 GMT -5
I loved WCW Worldwide. For a short time in 1998 when i didn't have cable, it was the ONLY wrestling on my TV. At that point, it was usually mostly a recap show with a single exclusive match at the end, taped at the same studio they taped the Saturday Night matches in. By the end of the year, when i had cable back, i found myself prefering Saturday Night and Worldwide to Nitro and Thunder, because it was more wrestling and less talk. Well, SN anyways. Worldwide was mostly talk.
As late as October 2001, my local channel aired a rerun of WCW worldwide in the same 2am sunday night slot. I thought i was dreaming when i came across it. I indeed had several dreams about WCW making a return to TV. But this one was real, I taped the end part of it.
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Post by Bo Rida on Feb 26, 2011 7:04:59 GMT -5
I'd prefer to see the batman censorship than cutting to the crowd/pausing the tape.
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Post by adamfromengland on Feb 26, 2011 15:20:44 GMT -5
By the later days of WCW, Worldwide was like this in America. It was a syndicated show that aired the same way in the US and UK, there were no differences. Worldwide started in the 80's when it was still owned by the Crocketts and used to be original programming before moving to the Disney/MGM Studios and starting off with the lower card wrestlers and jobbers, almost a B-Show to WCWSN. Then, when the Nitro/Thunder era began, it developed into a canned show that showed dark matches and recaps from Nitro & Thunder. It was always weeks behind what WCW was actually doing for some god awful reason. Prime example was the fact that two episodes of WCW Worldwide aired in the two weeks AFTER WCW had actually went out of business. But they had already been sent out and were in syndication, so it didn't matter. They were similar, but there were differences between the US and UK Worldwide. Obviously, being from the UK, I have never seen the US version of Worldwide, but according to this report from DDTdigest.com - the US version had two presenters in a studio, like Tony Schiavone and Mike Tenay, who would say something like "coming up later, highlights from this past week on Nitro and Thunder, plus exclusive Worldwide matches featuring..." Where as, here in the UK, they didn't have anything like that. The ring announcers, Hudson and Larry, used to pretend it was all one big show, even though the set would obviously change when they went from Thunder to WCW Saturday Night! ;D
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Post by spec on Feb 27, 2011 17:53:53 GMT -5
I used to watch this as not having cable or satellite it was the only wrestling on tv there was. So i was just glad of that. It didn't have the Batman-esque "POW" things when guys got hit by chairs and stuff at first, they started doing that goofy shit after it had been on for awhile. I'm not sure, but i think they did that because of complaints that some kids were emulating it. Scott Hudson was a good host/commentator i thought, whatever happened to him?
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 27, 2011 19:44:03 GMT -5
This thread resurfaces periodically and I always love to just quote the greatest Shane Douglas promo ever:
"CUT THE *whipcrack* MUSIC!"
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