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World Class Championship Wrestling TV Affiliates
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The flagship was KTVT, channel 11, in Dallas. It aired on Saturday nights from 10pm-12am. I vividly remember my father going out to rotate the antenna towards Dallas so he and I could watch it every weekend. They ran a repeat on Sunday mornings, I believe. Going back to the 60s and early 70s, it aired on Channel 4 KRLD-TV. That predates me, but was written about in Bill Mercer's memoir.
Keep in mind, during the territory days, there wasn't much in the way of overlap between the home offices. Talents were sometimes heel in one territory, and face in the other. Bruiser Brody is a prime example, as is Andre the Giant. Dallas had Fritz Von Erich's NWA Big Time Wrestling/World Class, Shreveport had Bill Watts Mid-South Wrestling on KTBS channel 3, Houston had Paul Boesch's Houston Wrestling on KHTV 39 in Houston, Joe Blanchard ran Southwest Championship Wrestling on channel 4 in San Antonio, etc. The only national wrestling shows, at least down here, were Georgia Championship Wrestling on superstation WTBS, and the WWF squash matches on various independent stations around the State of Texas.
Keep in mind, during the territory days, there wasn't much in the way of overlap between the home offices. Talents were sometimes heel in one territory, and face in the other. Bruiser Brody is a prime example, as is Andre the Giant. Dallas had Fritz Von Erich's NWA Big Time Wrestling/World Class, Shreveport had Bill Watts Mid-South Wrestling on KTBS channel 3, Houston had Paul Boesch's Houston Wrestling on KHTV 39 in Houston, Joe Blanchard ran Southwest Championship Wrestling on channel 4 in San Antonio, etc. The only national wrestling shows, at least down here, were Georgia Championship Wrestling on superstation WTBS, and the WWF squash matches on various independent stations around the State of Texas.
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WDSU (New Orleans) also had World Class Championship Wrestling well into the USWA merger; it was also on KTBY in Anchorage (along with WWF of course).
The show on Saturday nights was Saturday Night Wrestling from Will Rogers Coliseum over in Funky Town. They would tape those Tuesday night house shows and air them on KTVT on Saturdays. The Sunday morning show was World Class Championship Wrestling on KXTX 39. That show was taped from the Dallas Sportatorium. That was the Friday night house show in Dallas that aired the next Sunday on 39.
WOIO channel 19 in Cleveland carried it in the mid 80s when the station first came on the air on Sunday nights right after GLOW (this was prior to them becoming a charter Fox affiliate, and have long ago since become Cleveland's CBS affiliate).
I remember WCCW,
The big feud was Von Erichs vs Freebirds, , and we had guys like Iceman Parsons, Gentleman Chris Adams, Gino Hernandez, a young (and not yet Stone Cold) Steve Austin, and a young Dingo (not yet Ultimate) Warrior.
I remember seeing the old barn that was the Sportatorium. Didn't have a lot of the modern niceties of contemporary arenas, but there was a lot of history there.
I remember WCCW,
The big feud was Von Erichs vs Freebirds, , and we had guys like Iceman Parsons, Gentleman Chris Adams, Gino Hernandez, a young (and not yet Stone Cold) Steve Austin, and a young Dingo (not yet Ultimate) Warrior.
I remember seeing the old barn that was the Sportatorium. Didn't have a lot of the modern niceties of contemporary arenas, but there was a lot of history there.
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