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Which stations carried what wrestling promotions in the territory era?

Big Time Wrestling (based in Michigan)
WNEM-TV Bay City (which also videotaped the series)
WKTR-TV Kettering/Dayton 1967-1970(locally produced as a live show using the branding "Arena Wrestling")
WKRC-TV Cincinnati (1967-?)
WSWO-TV Springfield 1968-1970
WKEF Dayton 1970-1974 (?)

All Star Championship Wrestling
WTTV Bloomington/Indianapolis 1974-1980(which also produced it on location at the Indy Expo Center)
WRTV Indianapolis 1974-1980

Segments from the Indiana series were also aired on WSNS Chicago with local interviews by promoter Bob Luce packaged as "Chicago Wrestling"
 
Tim-In-Houston said:
David67 said:
Y'all didn't have WWA wrestling out of Chicago and Indianapolis,on Evansville tv?

One of the other two stations may very well have, but Mid-South was extremely popular in the Evansville area. At one point Jerry "The King" Lawlor opened up a furniture (perhaps appliance) store there.

It sticks in my mind because of the opening video of two grapplers locked in combat with the "2001: A Space Oddessy" theme overlayed. IIRC, WTVW aired it Sunday afternoons around noon.

That's Memphis, not Mid-South (confusing, since Memphis held their arena shows at the Mid-South Coliseum).

Here's what I know for Mid-South:
Houston - KHTV 39 (now KIAH)
Beaumont - KJAC 4 (now KBTV)
Dallas - KTXA 21
Shreveport - KTBS 3
New Orleans - WGNO 26
Little Rock - KARK 4
 
Airing Out Of New York City, 1970s-1990s...
Channel 4 WNBC WWF:Saturday Night Main Event
Channel 5 WNYW WWF:Wrestling Challenge, Saturday Night Main Event
Channel 9 WWOR WWF:Championship/All Star Wrestling
Channel 41 WXTV Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium wrestling promotion, Mid Atlantic Wrestling
Channel 47 WNJU Championship Wrestling From Florida
Channel 67 WSNL WWF: Championship/All Star Wrestling
Channel 68 WWHT ICW(?)
 
Forgot about Channel 2 WCW :(Pro NY) Worldwide

Channel 11 WPIX NWA - AWA Pro Wrestling USA, AWA All Star Wrestling, NWA/WCW World-wide / Pro NY, UWF and WWF NY

Channel 9 WWOR: WCW WorldWide, WWF/WWE SmackDown

Channel 31 WBIS : WCW Pro, WWF Shotgun, ECW Hardcore TV

Channel 5 WNYW: WWF Superstars
 
That's Memphis, not Mid-South (confusing, since Memphis held their arena shows at the Mid-South Coliseum).

Here's what I know for Mid-South:
Houston - KHTV 39 (now KIAH)
Beaumont - KJAC 4 (now KBTV)
Dallas - KTXA 21
Shreveport - KTBS 3
New Orleans - WGNO 26
Little Rock - KARK 4

Pretty sure KARK didn't get Mid-South until 1982 or 1983, whenever LeRoy McGuirk folded his Tri-State promotion. Watts had split with McGuirk in 1979 and taken Mississippi and Louisiana with him, along with most of the talent (Scandor Akbar was the most notable exception.), leaving Tri-State with Arkansas, Oklahoma and southwest Missouri.
 
Forgot about Channel 2 WCW :(Pro NY) Worldwide

Channel 11 WPIX NWA - AWA Pro Wrestling USA, AWA All Star Wrestling, NWA/WCW World-wide / Pro NY, UWF and WWF NY

Channel 9 WWOR: WCW WorldWide, WWF/WWE SmackDown

Channel 31 WBIS : WCW Pro, WWF Shotgun, ECW Hardcore TV

Channel 5 WNYW: WWF Superstars
I wanna add that briefly in 1975 WOR aired the IWA show.
 
1980s:
WPHL - NWA Worldwide, WWF Spotlight
WTAF/WTXF - WWF Superstars, WWF Wrestling Challenge
WGBS - G.L.O.W.

1990s:
WTXF - WWF Wrestling Challenge (until 1992), WWF Superstars
WPHL - WCW Pro, WWF Wrestling Challenge (1992-1993)
WGBS/WPSG - NWA, WCW Pro (1995-1996)
WGTW - WWF Spotlight, WWF Wrestling Challenge, WCW Worldwide, ECW Hardcore TV, WWF Shotgun, WWF Metal, WWF Jakked
 
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