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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 15, 2017 1:52:25 GMT -5
How many people actually remember the Joe Pedicino show where he showed many different promotions in the 80's. If you was in Atlanta he also had a 8 hour block of wrestling shows on Saturdays. As a kid that would have been a dream come true
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Post by bitteroldman on Oct 15, 2017 2:40:36 GMT -5
Watched PWTW in Chicago on channel 50 WPWR, they did a 4 hour block of wrestling on Saturday nights. The show was co-hosted by Pedecino and Gordon Solie and also featured Pedecino's wife Boni Blackstone.
Chicago was a great town if you were a wrestling fan in the 80's. There were multiple syndicated shows from the NWA/WCW, WCCW, UWF, WWF and the corpse of the AWA. There were house shows as well, WCW WWF and even WCCW who did shows at a local movie theater (Was the Gateway theater at the time, now it's the Copernicus center),
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Post by The Barber on Oct 15, 2017 5:45:17 GMT -5
I saw it on YouTube and probably would have been bored watching it in my youth. If it wasn't as colorful as the WWF, it couldn't hold my attention.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2017 10:48:19 GMT -5
Watched PWTW in Chicago on channel 50 WPWR, they did a 4 hour block of wrestling on Saturday nights. The show was co-hosted by Pedecino and Gordon Solie and also featured Pedecino's wife Boni Blackstone. Chicago was a great town if you were a wrestling fan in the 80's. There were multiple syndicated shows from the NWA/WCW, WCCW, UWF, WWF and the corpse of the AWA. There were house shows as well, WCW WWF and even WCCW who did shows at a local movie theater (Was the Gateway theater at the time, now it's the Copernicus center), GLOW was part of that block in Chicago. And if you got SportsChannel Chicago, they would air Windy City Wrestling at like 11:30pm.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 15, 2017 15:57:56 GMT -5
Never saw it until I started tape trading in the mid 90s. But we did get a 5 hour block of wrestling every Saturday on a channel out of Florida.
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Post by Captain & Diet on Oct 16, 2017 0:40:08 GMT -5
I used to get up at 6 am on Saturday morning and watch all the wrestling I could get. A few "snow channels" in the LA area would get some odd wrestling shows. But we'd get JCP Worldwide, WCCW, GLOW, PWTW and Superstars all in a block. Add in WCW on TBS at 3:05 and then SNME every month. It was a great time to be a fan as a teenager.
Cool thing about PWTW is that it brought to life the territories in the Apter Mags that you may never have otherwise seen.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Oct 16, 2017 14:27:51 GMT -5
I remember a show like this, but being on a Canadian sports channel and being hosted by Ed Whalen... but I can't find any evidence that it happened.
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Post by bitteroldman on Oct 17, 2017 9:34:18 GMT -5
Watched PWTW in Chicago on channel 50 WPWR, they did a 4 hour block of wrestling on Saturday nights. The show was co-hosted by Pedecino and Gordon Solie and also featured Pedecino's wife Boni Blackstone. Chicago was a great town if you were a wrestling fan in the 80's. There were multiple syndicated shows from the NWA/WCW, WCCW, UWF, WWF and the corpse of the AWA. There were house shows as well, WCW WWF and even WCCW who did shows at a local movie theater (Was the Gateway theater at the time, now it's the Copernicus center), GLOW was part of that block in Chicago. And if you got SportsChannel Chicago, they would air Windy City Wrestling at like 11:30pm. LOL Glow, with Stallone's mom. How many different "______ The Farmer's Daughter" were there? I'll swear there were at least 3
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Post by grungesmurf on Oct 17, 2017 10:27:23 GMT -5
Watched PWTW in Chicago on channel 50 WPWR, they did a 4 hour block of wrestling on Saturday nights. The show was co-hosted by Pedecino and Gordon Solie and also featured Pedecino's wife Boni Blackstone. Chicago was a great town if you were a wrestling fan in the 80's. There were multiple syndicated shows from the NWA/WCW, WCCW, UWF, WWF and the corpse of the AWA. There were house shows as well, WCW WWF and even WCCW who did shows at a local movie theater (Was the Gateway theater at the time, now it's the Copernicus center), GLOW was part of that block in Chicago. And if you got SportsChannel Chicago, they would air Windy City Wrestling at like 11:30pm. I saw Windy City Pro Wrestling through tape trading. They had at least five stables going at it, on a half hour show and I think seven different titles. Also where I first saw Christopher Daniels. As for PWTW I'd get it on a very grainy channel 43 but still watched when I could get the bunny ears to tune in just right.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2017 13:59:54 GMT -5
GLOW was part of that block in Chicago. And if you got SportsChannel Chicago, they would air Windy City Wrestling at like 11:30pm. I saw Windy City Pro Wrestling through tape trading. They had at least five stables going at it, on a half hour show and I think seven different titles. Also where I first saw Christopher Daniels. As for PWTW I'd get it on a very grainy channel 43 but still watched when I could get the bunny ears to tune in just right. I saw their Battle of the Belts 13 event in 2001. Take the 8 WCPW titles they had and add the 2 UAPW (Urban American Pro Wrestling, an off-shoot) titles also defended (I don't remember the Inner-city title defended), that's a lot of title matches which...really meant nothing. On the fun side, that was where I saw RVD in one of his few Indies matches between ECW & the WWF run he had that year.
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Post by James Fabiano on Oct 23, 2017 9:22:40 GMT -5
Ah this has mutated into what we remember in our TV markets....cool.
Well obviously, we got all the WWF syndies in the NYC market (originally WOR Channel 9, moved to Fox eventually) and the JCP/WCW shows on TBS. And WWF shows on USA Network. AWA on ESPN, as well as WCCW Legends. Think the new WCCW shows were on MSG Network, along with of course the WWF house shows from the Garden (sometimes Meadowlands and Nassau too). They got non-market specific versions of the syndies too, usually Superstars or Spotlight. And POWW (later LPWA) on late nights during the weekend, I think. By the 90s MSG would carry WCW Prime and ECW, and briefly the AWF.
WPIX 11 (later WB, then CW, now it carries CW programs but is using the "classic" PIX name to identify itself) carried most of NWA/WCW's syndies, and the Crockett era UWF as such. I think AWA was there for awhile, and of course GLOW at 12 noon on Saturdays. The thread namer, Pro Wrestling This Week, was on PIX as well.
CTN, a local New Jersey cable/UHF channel, was where I first found NWA World Wide Wrestling airings. Later it too would carry ECW before the station left the air. By the 90s, Worldwide jumped to WCBS and then WWF's former home on what was now WWOR, UPN 9.
The Spanish channels were in on the game too...I recall WXTV 41, the Univision station, airing WWC (Colon's territory) in the 80s, and its competitor WNJU 47 (Telemundo) the Spanish language version of Superstars.
WLNY 55 (Long Island local) was the place to be Saturday nights during the Attitude Era and 2000s, they aired Shotgun and its successors.
SportsChannel I never got permanently, but listened to many a show on scramblevision. Think they got USWA Dallas, ICW/IWCCW, Abrams UWF, NAWA (a northeastern indy), and the GWF's syndicated/Dallas version...I know this was Major League Wrestling as opposed to ESPN's Supercard.
For a time we got WTAF/WTXF 29 from Philly on our cable and they too aired the WWF shows, only their version plugged Spectrum shows. I remember my friend retaining the channel while I didn't, or the other way around, and we'd spoil what happened on the week's shows before Fox would air them.
Now does anyone remember AIN, later Urban America TV? It was a placeholder for a new Spanish channel here, this was in 2001-2002 or so. Carried lots of wrestling on Saturdays...the Savoldi "classics" series with USWA and GWF matches, as well as NWA Wildside and occasionally NWA Southwest. There was another show that was a mixed bag from different indy shows...many came from this Spanish language event with many ex-WWF stars. Think also some from that indy in the Carolinas where Ken Shamrock started out.
Whew! That was a big memory download!
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Post by willywonka666 on Oct 23, 2017 9:42:07 GMT -5
I remember reading about this and finally saw some clips on youtube-they were light on the WWF in the few episodes I watched, but at the time, that was the main promotion I knew of
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