Ultimo Gallos
Grimlock
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Aug 27, 2019 14:18:48 GMT -5
Wasn't WCCW on CBN for a bit. If so,and I got foggy memories of them being on CBN before it became the Family channel,they were national. Seen,never confirmed,reports that WCCW was almost neck and neck with WWF at the time with how many markets they reached with Syndication. I know they aired in the Northeast area thru syndication. Hell I got WCCW on a channel out of Alabama and that was the syndicated show. Chris Adams seems to be a guy that if you grew up in Texas or the south you knew. But if you didn't he wasn't that well known. They had a show on CBN for a time, yes, but the promotion never expanded past its territory. Fritz refused to tour any of the places the show was getting good ratings. Thanks to a CBN side deal, the show was even being aired in Israel and Lebanon as well. Regardless of where it aired, Fritz operated on a strictly local level. Also keep in mind we're talking 1982-era cable TV. It was not a common thing to find in the household yet - most of the homes that had it that watched it were in the bible belt. I can see where it can argued that it was national, but I personally do not consider it so. Adams had good runs in LA and Portland before heading to World Class. It was all downhill after that. I know cable wasn't that big in 82. Hell the area I grew up in didnt get cable until Nov 1990. But from what I have read between CBN and syndication WCCW had a huge area of the country that got it on TV. Didn't WCCW do some shows in the Boston area? Pretty sure I heard about shows in Boston in a shoot interview. |
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efarns
Don Corleone
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Post by efarns on Sept 5, 2019 7:49:28 GMT -5
I just listened to the GWF episode of Something to Wrestle, and Bruce did have one story, and it was an instant classic.
I was fuzzy on the GWF and WCCW connection. I saw World Class on cable one time, then caught GWF in the afternoons a few times. They were kind of the same thing to me.
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Squirrel Master
Hank Scorpio
"Then the Squirrel Master came out of left field and told me I'm his bitch!"
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Post by Squirrel Master on Sept 5, 2019 10:25:32 GMT -5
Back in 1987 I used to get WCCW on UHF channel U68 twice weekly in Brooklyn, NY.
My gut instinct told me Chris Adams was sleazy, yet I cannot explain why.
Off-topic, U68 was great. Weekdays at 4PM they had WCCW, AWA, JCP, and California Championship Wrestling
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the4whoare1
Bubba Ho-Tep
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Post by the4whoare1 on Sept 5, 2019 19:29:57 GMT -5
yeah I remember watching world class here in boston.
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