You Guys Remember This Situation?

[What?]

...Waking up Saturday morning...it's about 5-10 minutes before "Superstars of Wrestling" starts...you're waiting in anticipation...then it doesn't come on. You sit there hugely letdown, because FOX decided to air a one-hour "Blu Blockers" infomercial instead.



Terrible memories.

[molson5]

That never happened to me but I feel your pain. Fortunately, my Boston affiliates loyally stayed in line the entire run of Superstars and Wrestling Challenge.

[Lance Uppercut]

Being in LA back when we used to have 2 football teams and only like 5 stations, not to mention the baseball, you can imagine my 10 year old rage everytime that Superstars (or Challenge) was pre-empted for local sports.

Never knew when they were gonna play it. No youtube, or tivo, back then to get a copy of the show. Made me kind of glad that the other show (challenge or Action zone) were pretty much the same show with different commentators.

[Deleted]

Yeah, it happened to me a couple times.

In June 1993, the local Fox station in my area stopped showing Superstars. The first show we didn't get was the one where Mr. Hughes jumped the Undertaker and Paul Bearer with the urn.

And in February 1998, the local WB Network channel in my area replaced ECW with WCW Worldwide with no prior warning. The ECW show moved to the local UPN channel, which we didn't get until 2002.

[What?]

I was young and fat, so all I wanted was to sit on my couch and enjoy a fun wrestling show. And like Andy Griffith said, there really was no internet...atleast not how every home has 2-4 of them today. If you missed wrestling that week, you were basically in a dark cave. I'd be able to catch Primetime, but I'd have to turn it off by 8:30 and get ready for bed.

This is therapeutic, by the way. Thanks!

[h]

Mar 24, 2013 15:40:50 GMT -5 @chrisc said:

In June 1993, the local Fox station in my area stopped showing Superstars. The first show we didn't get was the one where Mr. Hughes jumped the Undertaker and Paul Bearer with the urn.

Coincidentally, that was the first one I ever watched. The Hughes-Undertaker segment got me hooked on wrestling.

I never had that happen to me with Superstars, but I definitely remember getting all ready to watch Monday Night Raw only to find out that they were showing a stupid dog show instead.

[Brandon Walsh is Insane.]

Wcw SaturdayNight BEimg Preempted For Braves Baseball

[Kash Flagg]

Mar 24, 2013 16:10:46 GMT -5 Brandon Walsh is Insane. said:

Wcw SaturdayNight BEimg Preempted For Braves Baseball

I hated the Braves for YEARS because of that.

[Deleted]

Saturdays were so awesome when I was a kid. WCW had a show that came on around 7:05 AM and then cartoons all morning and from 10-12 there was WWF and WCW shows and ocassionally I'd get a wrestling show on a local station at 1PM(I mainly remember Ricky Steamboat wrestling some guy in a purple body suit and mask) then go outside and do something for a while only to come back in at 6:05PM for WCW Saturday night.

[lildude8218]

Fox 5 in New York never did this to the best of my knowledge. WCW didn't come on until way late Saturday nights on CBS. I found it by accident one night and then started taping it whenever I remembered.

[Rave]

I remember for a while when Smackdown was on the CW, my Fox affiliate would air it as part of some kind of deal they'd worked out. One week, I tuned in expecting wrestling and got TMZ instead. I was quite angry.

[Jiren]

I can't remember if it was a Wrestling show or an Episode of X-files but it was the day Princess Diana died so they ceased all TV shows on Sky1 that day and had a graphic of her and ? - 1997

Pissed me off, a graphic in the corner would have sufficed

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

I remember that in 2006, my local UPN affiliate stopped airing Smackdown for two months for some odd reason. Since I considered Smackdown to be "my show" back then, I was pissed.

[Tyfo]

I remember my Saturday's as a kid went something like this:

Wake up
Find cereal
Cartoons
WCW Power Hour
More Cartoons
WWF Mania
X-Men
WCW Worldwide/WWF Superstars (I feel like they switched back and forth being on Saturdays around 11AM or noon)
Lunch
Do something with my mom like go to the mall or whatever, or have soccer/basketball/football games pending the season.
WCW Saturday Night

[mizerable]

Not wrestling, but they did that PLENTY of times for college games and golf during the last 2 hours of Saturday morning cartoons. Absolutely pissed me off, which is why I think to this day I've never gotten into college sports or golf.

Actually, I do remember them preempting Smackdown a few times for local sports crap. This was of course, back when Smackdown was amazing a decade ago.

[rapidfire187]

The worst was when RAW was preempted for those damn dog shows. I think it happened the night after Summerslam 98 and just ruined my entire night. Nitro was rarely a suitable replacement.

[wildojinx]

Prior to getting cable, the only wrestling i was able to watch was Wrestling Challenge and ICW/IWCCW. ICW stayed at a stable time slot at least (Saturdays at 1PM, followed by American Gladiators), but the ABC affiliate who had Wrestling Challenge (WMUR in case any New England FANs are wondering) shifted it constantly. First it was Saturdays at 11:30 pm, then Sundays at 1PM (which was the best time slot for it IMO), then Sundays at 12:30 am (which meant i had to stay up until 1:30 many times), and even the occasional airing at 1:30 am (which i had to tape). At least when i got cable in 93 i finally was able to pick up the FOX affiliate and get Superstars and Challenge back to back from 12-2 on Saturday afternoons.

[Long A, Short A]

I didn't have to deal with wrestling getting preempted until I started watching WCW. Wrestling preempted cartoons back when I was a kid

[What?]

It must have been a Chicagoland area deal. It was bad. There was no warning given. I would just tune in, expecting the card that was plugged the week prior...then it never came on. I'd check back after the sunglasses show as well, but it was Mr. Belvedere.