Wrestling's tv schedule when you first started watching

[willywonka666]

My first years I'm counting were 86-89.

Monday:Prime Time Wrestling (WWF)
Tuesday:Tuesday Night Titans (WWF)
Friday:I seem to recall the AWA on ESPN and later it changed to it's Saturday Night Timeslot
Friday:The Power Hour (NWA/WCW)
Saturday:CWA/USWA Mornings. WWF Superstars Mornings I believe there was a Saturday Morning edition of WCW(Crockett) on WTBS and then of course the Saturday Night Edition. The monthly edition of Saturday Night's Main Event (WWF)
Sunday:All American Wrestling (WWF) Main Event (NWA/WCW)
Weekdays:Legends of World Class Championship Wrestling on ESPN

I was very grateful and lucky-the only promotions I really missed out on were Mid South/UWF and current World Class which I kept up with through magazines.

How about you?

[edgestar]

I'm going to say Prime Time on Mondays, Superstars/Challenge on Saturdays (I think mom and I watched Superstars in the hospital, after I had surgery), All American on Sundays

[paperbackhero]

WWF - Superstars noon Saturdays WUTV 29 from Buffalo
- Challenge 1:00 Saturdays CHCH 11 from Hamilton
- Maple Leaf Wrestling 7:00 pm CHCH 11
JCP - TBS 6:05 Saturday...needed UHF rabbit ears
- Power Hour Fridays out of Chicage...again UHF rabbit ears...forget the callnumber channel. White 49(?)
International Wrestling out of Montreal - Sunday mornings...Bravo, Rougeaus, Abdullah, Brody, Creachman, etc...
AWA on TSN as well as Stampede...weekdays

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Before we got cable it used to be just Saturday afternoon sometime, Stampede Wrestling from Calgary.

After cable it was the WWF late Friday night (after the 11 o'clock news), Saturday morning NWA/Georgia Championship on Saturday morning on TBS, Stampede Wrestling and All-Star Wrestling from Vancouver (at odd times depending on what sporting events were on), then two hours of the NWA again on TBS, and ANOTHER two hours Sunday.

[Macho Pichu]

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.

[cherry coloured funk]

Circa Spring 1993, it was very much a Saturday thing:

WCW Pro, 9:05 AM TBS
WWF Superstars, 12:00 PM WUTV
WWF Supercard (which I believe was All-American Wrestling without the vignettes), 1:00 PM CTV Barrie
WCW Saturday Night, 6:05 PM TBS
WWF Cavalcade of Wrestling (aka a rebranded Wrestling Challenge for Canada), 11:30 PM CHCH

A few years later, the AWF was on somewhere after SNL. It was great to see Tito Santana again.

A bonus was American Gladiators at 1:00 PM on WUTV, as "WWF Supercard" sometimes had matches I'd seen elsewhere.

[Milkman Norm]

Monday: Prime Time Wrestling
Saturday: WWF Superstars of Wrestling
WCW Saturday Night
Sunday: WWF Wrestling Challenge
WCW Power Hour

[molson5]

In late 1985 I started watching wrestling in Central Massachusetts. In rural areas like that at that time, before you had access to "cable networks", you had "cable" TV that only brought you broadcast stations of the Northeast between Boston and New York. We couldn't reach any of those stations very well over-the-air, but with the community cable setup you could get lots of those stations perfectly. The WWF aired on broadcast stations in both Boston and New York, so we got 3 or 4 WWF shows. One of them was definitely "WWF Championship Wrestling" with the Michael Jackson thriller intro, but there were other versions of their syndicated programming as well. I remember those shows having some similarities and identical matches, but they were occasionally different too. I remember flipping back and forth between one WWF show on WFXT in Boston, and a completely different one on WPIX in New York airing at the same time on a Saturday morning. Though looking at wikipedia, it's possible I was just seeing WWF Championship wrestling, All-American Wrestling, and Wrestling Spotlight. Those shows might have bounced around different times and stations. In '86 Superstars and Challenge started, and I remember at that moment, things got much more predictable, you knew exactly where they'd air and when.

I also remember seeing an AWA shows syndicated on one of those stations. I remember seeing Hall and Hennig defeat Regal and Garvin before we would have had ESPN, so they had some outlet in northeast broadcast TV.

I didn't see NWA until my neighborhood finally got wired for "real" cable around 1991.

[Paco]

1993-1994:

In '93, it was just WWF Superstars (a.k.a. Maple Leaf Wrestling) which was on CFCF-12 (Montreal) Saturdays at noon.
Then in '94, TSN started getting WWF Action Zone which they put whenever they please but it was usually Sunday afternoon, IIRC.
No RAW till late '94 on TSN. Don't remember which night it was on. Probably changed weekly. Thanks TV Guide!

In '94, I started watching WCW due to Hogan's coming in. Of course, Saturday Night 6:05 on TBS.
Worldwide was syndicated (WGN Chicago is where I watched it, I think) but I caught it whenever I could. I think it was usually Friday or Saturday on late night (like 1am).

[ayumidah]

The ones I know of would've been

Sunday night Heat
Raw is War
ECW
WCW

but I was a WWE only girl at the time (Look at me now, watching half a dozen feds on TV) so I didn't know a lot about the last two.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Here is what I can remember of it. Gonna go from 86 which is a few years after I started. Mostly cause I can't remember what all aired in 83.

1986

One thing I gotta mention is this was all with just a rooftop antenna and a set of rabbit ears. My area didn't get cable until fall of 1990.

Saturday
2pm Continental on channel 3
5pm WWF Spotlight on Channel 44
6pm WWF Superstars on Channel 44
7pm Memphis on Channel 15
8pm WCCW on channel 15 and at the same time on channel 44 some syndicated JCP/NWA/WCW show which I would record to watch later
9pm Mid South/UWF on channel 15
10pm Florida on Channel 44
11pm GLOW on channel 15
12am WWF Wrestling Challenge on channel 10

So most weeks got 10 hours of wrestling on Saturdays. The weeks Saturday Night's Main event was on,aired on channel 10,I would record Florida and Glow.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

I can't even remember. It was 1989 and wrestling was pretty spread out over what channels we could get on our Astra satellite systems.

WWF Wrestling Challenge, Superstars, and All-American Wrestling were broadcast on Sky Channel/Sky One and Eurosport, plus a couple of French and German channels.

A couple of years later ITV started showing WCW Worldwide, albeit at around 2am.

[111111]

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)

[Deleted]

Mid 1995 or so, in the southeast United States:

Raw on Monday night
WCW Saturday Night at 6:05
Superstars on Sunday morning

That's what I watched anyway, I know there were some random syndicated shows like Worldwide and Pro that I'd catch sometimes.

[warriorthug4edge]

That I can remember...

Monday: Raw/Nitro
Tuesday: Nada
Wednesday: Nada (Thunder down the road)
Thursday: Nada (Smackdown later)
Friday: Nada
Saturday: This is where it gets tricky. When I was REALLY little, there was a block of ECW, USWA, SMW, and then WCW Worldwide. Not to mention the Saturday morning WCW and WWF shows. Then WCW Saturday Night
Sunday: WCW Main Event

[MC Blowfish]

Prime Time on Monday nights
WCCW was on weekdays from 3-4
AWA ran occasionally from 3-4 on weekdays
NWA/WCW on Saturday mornings and Saturday afternoons
AWA on Saturday mornings
WWF on Saturday mornings
WWF on Sunday mornings
WCW/NWA on Sunday afternoons

Of course you had Saturday Night Main Event and Clash of the Champions specials.

[thegatewaydrug]

My 1993:
WWF Raw Mondays 8:00 PM on USA
WWF Mania Saturdays 9:00 AM on USA
WWF All-American Wrestling Sundays 11:00 AM? on USA
WWF Superstars Sundays at midnight on local NBC affiliate (taped and watched the next morning early before Church)
WCW Saturday Night at 5:05 PM on TBS

Guess the timezone!

[Professor Chaos]

I hated how I never got to see both Challenge and Superstars as a kid. They always switched back and forth in my syndicated TV when I was a kid.

[mattyy]

RAW, SmackDown, Heat, Jakked, Velocity, Confidential, NWA Wildside, NWA-TNA Xplosion are the shows that come to mind when I think about my first two real years watching wrestling.

[Johnny Flamingo]

Friday Night: 5 Star Wrestling (short lived Baton Rouge indy fed)
Saturday morning: WWF Superstars

Didn't have cable so that was all I could watch. Used to watch WCW and mid-south videos at a friends house