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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Dec 17, 2015 4:30:29 GMT -5
Raw and Nitro on Monday SmackDown and Thunder on Thursday WCW Saturday Night Heat on Sunday I wasn't made aware of when and where to watch ECW. I knew of it, but only ever watched VHS tapes of their PPVs. This, but Thunder was on Wednesday for me.
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Post by hbkid718 on Dec 17, 2015 15:21:32 GMT -5
When I started watching wrestling in 1987, I didn't have cable. So, I only watched WWF Superstars & Wrestling Challenge on Saturday & Sundays at Noon on WNYW Channel 5. And once in a while, I would go to my Aunt's house in Long Island, who had cable and found NWA/WCW on TBS on Saturday & Sunday nights. Then, when I got cable in the early/mid-90s, I would have Raw on Mondays on USA, nothing all week until Saturday mornings with WWF Mania at 10 on USA, Superstars at 12 Noon on WNYW Channel 5, WCW Saturday Night at 6:05 on TBS, Wrestling Challenge on Sundays at 12 Noon on Channel 5, & WCW Main Event at 6:05 on TBS. Eventually, I found ECW on MSG at 2 AM on Saturday Night/Sunday Morning. Then, eventually, I would watch every wrestling show, no matter what time. I'll always remember watching WWF Shotgun Saturday Night at 11 on WLNY-55 and the switching to WCW Worldwide on CBS Channel 2 at 12 or 12:30. I was watching Worldwide when they interrupted to announce that Princess Diana died.
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Post by legendkiller1985 on Dec 17, 2015 15:58:46 GMT -5
1995 Monday: Raw Nitro Saturday Morning: WCW Pro WWF Mania 10:00 am USA (Todd Pettengeil was also a DJ For WPLJ in The NY Area) WWF Superstars WWF Wrestling Challenge WCW Saturday Night
Sunday WCW World Wide WWF Action Zone WCW Main Event
I caught ECW here and there but never really got into it until the late 90's
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Post by legendkiller1985 on Dec 17, 2015 16:01:23 GMT -5
When I started watching wrestling in 1987, I didn't have cable. So, I only watched WWF Superstars & Wrestling Challenge on Saturday & Sundays at Noon on WNYW Channel 5. And once in a while, I would go to my Aunt's house in Long Island, who had cable and found NWA/WCW on TBS on Saturday & Sunday nights. Then, when I got cable in the early/mid-90s, I would have Raw on Mondays on USA, nothing all week until Saturday mornings with WWF Mania at 10 on USA, Superstars at 12 Noon on WNYW Channel 5, WCW Saturday Night at 6:05 on TBS, Wrestling Challenge on Sundays at 12 Noon on Channel 5, & WCW Main Event at 6:05 on TBS. Eventually, I found ECW on MSG at 2 AM on Saturday Night/Sunday Morning. Then, eventually, I would watch every wrestling show, no matter what time. I'll always remember watching WWF Shotgun Saturday Night at 11 on WLNY-55 and the switching to WCW Worldwide on CBS Channel 2 at 12 or 12:30. I was watching Worldwide when they interrupted to announce that Princess Diana died. I gather you're in the New York area then. where I am in the Lehigh Valley, we get both New York and Philly stations.
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Post by Malcolm on Dec 17, 2015 16:06:39 GMT -5
Smackdown on Thursday. And that was it. We were too poor for cable.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Dec 17, 2015 16:51:18 GMT -5
2000 in the UK Friday nights was half an hour of Nitro on TNT (and later Bravo) followed by Raw on whichever Sky Sports channel it was on Saturday mornings was livewire and Smackdown on sky 1, Saturday nights was the uncensored version of Smackdown on sky sports Sunday mornings were metal and Superstars on sky 1, Sunday afternoon was heat on channel 4 Then in the week every day at 7 before school was WWF classics on sky sports Oh and WCW worldwide was on channel 5 Friday evenings for a while at one point. Don't think thunder or Saturday night aired over here though worldwide did show matches from thunder (albeit weeks afterwards) TNT showed ALL of nitro, after cartoon network closed at 9pm 1988 i think, when STV (ITV network) started having WWF on for about a year then it changed inexplicably to NWA ..... WATCH THE PAY PER VIEW!!!
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 17, 2015 16:59:02 GMT -5
Wrestling Challenge, 10PM, Friday, Sky One
Superstars of Wrestling, 10PM, Saturday, Sky One
Prime Time Wrestling on Eurosport
USWA on Screensport
A PPV on Eurosport, then Sky Movies every few months.
And it was amazing.
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Post by Starshine on Dec 17, 2015 17:06:21 GMT -5
WCW used to air on Cartoon Network at 12-3pm on Saturdays or Sundays, I don't remember which. It's how I started watching, the morning block of cartoons would end and suddenly pro wrestling was on. And being a kid without a whole lot going on, I started watching it.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Dec 17, 2015 17:23:44 GMT -5
Probably around 1991, so not sure what the breakdown was there.
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Post by agent817 on Dec 17, 2015 18:30:31 GMT -5
Well, being that I first became a fan in 1998, it was like this:
Monday: WCW Nitro and WWF Raw (It helped that being out here in the west, at first, was that I watched Nitro from 5-8, and then watched Raw at 9). Thursday: WCW Thunder Saturday: WCW Saturday Night Sunday (Later on): WWF Sunday Night Heat
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Post by hbkid718 on Dec 17, 2015 22:12:04 GMT -5
Yes. I'm from Queens, NY.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2015 22:25:51 GMT -5
The Monday Night Wars? Pfft. Try Sunday at 11am:
WWF All-American Wrestling on USA. AWA All-Star Wrestling on WSNS-44. Mid-South/UWF Power Pro on Ch. 50.
12pm: "Bruiser Bedlam" with Chicago promoter Bob Luce & Dick the Bruiser. Usually some cage match with Verne vs. Bockwinkel and Heenan gets busted open. WSNS-44.
Funny thing, those were the only 2 shows (Spanish station) 44 would play in English.
(That's just Sunday afternoon. I'll do the whole week of 1986 later.)
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Post by Beantown33 on Dec 20, 2015 11:26:04 GMT -5
Saturday Mania at 11 on USA Superstars at noon on Fox 25 WCW Saturday Night at 6:05 on TBS Sunday LiveWire in the morning Heat at night
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2015 17:18:05 GMT -5
Guessing around 1985-86...
Sunday 6am:Best of Georgia Championship Wrestling 10am: NWA syndicated show (World Wide?) (Ch. 50) 11am: UWF Power Pro Wrestling (Ch. 50), WWF All-American Wrestling (USA), AWA All-Star Wrestling (WSNS-44) 5pm: Best of World Championship Wrestling/NWA (TBS) 530pm: World Class (Ch. 60)
Mon-Thurs. 3pm: AWA on ESPN (Did this exist in 1986? I wanna say it did.)
Monday 8pm: WWF Prime Time Wrestling (USA)
Saturday 7am: Best of Georgia Championship Wrestling (TBS) 9am: WWF Superstars (WOR-9, NY feed) 10am: WWF Superstars (WFLD-32, Chicago/my local feed) 12pm: WWF Superstars (WSNS-44, Chicago/local feed in Spanish) 4pm: Polynesian/Hawaii wrestling (Financial News Network) 505pm: World Championship Wrestling/NWA (TBS) 8pm: Pro Wrestling This Week wrestling wrap-up show. (Ch. 50) 9pm: G.L.O.W. ladies wrestling (Ch. 50) 10pm: "Smash" best of wrestling show hosted by Honey B (aka Queen Kong) (Ch. 60) 12am: WWF Wrestling Spotlight (WFLD-32, Chicago)
If not 100%, I'm close. Been 30 years. Also, Channel 60 would have Memphis at various times. Like ECW, sometimes it was on, sometimes it wasn't. No rhyme or reason.
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Post by unc40 on Dec 21, 2015 17:51:46 GMT -5
I started watching in 1981. Wrestling was only on at 11 A.M. Saturday. It was either channel 20 or channel 45 in Baltimore. A couple of years later Saturday Night Main Event came on once a month on NBC at 11:00 P.M. I also remember USA airing a round table discussion on Monday night discussing wrestling events from the previous week.
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 21, 2015 19:22:07 GMT -5
Well, come March or April of the coming year, I will have celebrated my 30th year as a fan, back in 1986, during the buildup to WM2. I believe the WWF shows were still on WOR Channel 9 in New York (soon to be WWOR). Not entirely sure when they switched to our Fox station...I am actually researching NY area television from the '70s and '80s so I'm sure I'll soon find out. Mostly morning/noon times...though I think the original Superstars (which would become Spotlight) was at night.
Of course, the Sat AM/PM NWA World Championship Wrestling airings, Sunday PM too. I think I found Worldwide on one of our local Jersey stations, CTN, which would later carry ECW along with the MSG Network in the 90s.
AWA was on ESPN, either the old 4 pm slot GWF would have, and/or nighttime. And WCCW was on MSG on the weekend, then ESPN (4 pm again?).
For a time, I think one of the AWA's shows were on WPIX here Sat AM's...maybe when it was part of Pro Wrestling USA? I know the Crockett-owned UWF was the same too.
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Post by Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h on Dec 22, 2015 1:48:07 GMT -5
It was in the 80s that I reall remember schedules. There was an early morning saturday show then cartoons until about 11. Then Superstars, Memohis wrestling, some other smaller wrestling show. I believe a World Class. Then Saturday night at 5:05. Couple shows on Sunday as well. During the week there was wrestling on ESPN. Then the prime time shows. And Friday night was AWA I believe.
That was a long time ago lol
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Post by Squirrel Master on Dec 23, 2015 22:22:11 GMT -5
When I started watching wrestling in 1987, I didn't have cable. So, I only watched WWF Superstars & Wrestling Challenge on Saturday & Sundays at Noon on WNYW Channel 5. And once in a while, I would go to my Aunt's house in Long Island, who had cable and found NWA/WCW on TBS on Saturday & Sunday nights. Then, when I got cable in the early/mid-90s, I would have Raw on Mondays on USA, nothing all week until Saturday mornings with WWF Mania at 10 on USA, Superstars at 12 Noon on WNYW Channel 5, WCW Saturday Night at 6:05 on TBS, Wrestling Challenge on Sundays at 12 Noon on Channel 5, & WCW Main Event at 6:05 on TBS. Eventually, I found ECW on MSG at 2 AM on Saturday Night/Sunday Morning. Then, eventually, I would watch every wrestling show, no matter what time. I'll always remember watching WWF Shotgun Saturday Night at 11 on WLNY-55 and the switching to WCW Worldwide on CBS Channel 2 at 12 or 12:30. I was watching Worldwide when they interrupted to announce that Princess Diana died. I'm from Brooklyn, New York, and I religiously followed this schedule. I used to view AWA on WPIX channel 11 on Saturday mornings back in '85 too. The following year there was an obscure UHF channel called U68 that had one hour of wrestling each weekday at 4:00PM. That's where we'd see World Class Championship Wrestling twice a week, Bill Watts' UWF *hence my screen name* , and California Championship Wrestling which was low-budget but surprisingly good. GWF was the weakest show on U68. In the wee hours UHF channel 47 WXTV out of Patterson, NJ had JCP-NWA and Spanish versions of WWF syndicated shows with unique promos featuring Spanish speaking announcers/interpreters. On Saturdays at 3PM they aired WWC out of Puerto Rico, which was badass. 1987 saw a short-lived Pro Wrestling This Week! on Saturday mornings, after WWF. It was hosted by Joe Pedicino and had current clips from the territories. I forget what channel it was on, possibly SportsChannel. A couple of years later, in 1991 we watched Herb Abrams so-bad-it-was-good UWF on SportsChannel. With the exception of GWF, all above above were solid entertainment and it had me spending a ton of money on blank VHS tapes. Good times indeed.
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Post by Squirrel Master on Dec 23, 2015 22:34:23 GMT -5
Well, come March or April of the coming year, I will have celebrated my 30th year as a fan, back in 1986, during the buildup to WM2. I believe the WWF shows were still on WOR Channel 9 in New York (soon to be WWOR). Not entirely sure when they switched to our Fox station...I am actually researching NY area television from the '70s and '80s so I'm sure I'll soon find out. Mostly morning/noon times...though I think the original Superstars (which would become Spotlight) was at night. Of course, the Sat AM/PM NWA World Championship Wrestling airings, Sunday PM too. I think I found Worldwide on one of our local Jersey stations, CTN, which would later carry ECW along with the MSG Network in the 90s. AWA was on ESPN, either the old 4 pm slot GWF would have, and/or nighttime. And WCCW was on MSG on the weekend, then ESPN (4 pm again?). For a time, I think one of the AWA's shows were on WPIX here Sat AM's...maybe when it was part of Pro Wrestling USA? I know the Crockett-owned UWF was the same too. All of the above. Can't forget the monthly Madison Square Garden house shows on MSG!
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 24, 2015 18:31:52 GMT -5
When I first started watching, all I got was Mid-South (or rather, Houston Wrestling, which just happened to be hosting Mid-South shows at the time) on Saturday (or Sunday, I forget) mornings on channel 39 in Pasadena. Outside of SNME, I couldn't watch WWF at my house for another year or so when one of the syndicated shows started. Also in 1986 we started getting Texas All-Star, which was taping in the area (and may very well have already been on the air in the area with me just never seeing it). With the exception of GLOW on Fox in 1987, it would be four or so more years before we got a satellite dish and I could finally see other promotions without renting tapes or going to a friend's house.
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