Question re "AWA All Star Wrestling" in San Francisco and other markets

[Ultimajock]

...exactly which station in the Bay Area ran the AWA "All-Star Wrestling" program? KTVU/2? KEMO/KZTO/KOFY/20? KICU/36? KBHK/44? And when did it run there? As well, what other stations ran the tapes Verne Gagne sent out from Minneapolis, and at what times?...

 

[Bluenoser]

A quick check of a July 1976 SF Metro edition in my collection has wrestling airing on both KICU and KBHK, as well as KTXL in Sacramento...no indication in those days as to who aired what...

 

[Bluenoser]

A quick check of a July 1976 SF Metro edition in my collection has wrestling airing on both KICU and KBHK, as well as KTXL in Sacramento...no indication in those days as to who aired what...

Really should mention the timeslots ...
all on Saturdays:
11am on KBHK
4pm on KTXL
8pm on KICU

There was also wrestling Wed 8pm on KDTV 60, but it was likely from Mexico as KDTV was running a Spanish schedule.

 

[The King Bee]

How was the country divided into TV territories for wrestling back in the day...was it roughly akin to their live card traveling territory? Here in Louisville (and a huge chunk of the Southeastern US), Nick Gulas and Roy Welch's National Wrestling Alliance held sway, both with Tuesday night live cards and Saturday afternoon TV shows produced at (I believe) WMC-TV, Memphis, airing locally on WAVE-TV. I think Gulas was the father-in-law or grandfather of wrestler, and later promoter, Jerry Jarett.

Tojo Yamamoto, Dick (Afflis) The Bruiser, Dr. Ken Ramey and The Interns...hokey, corny plots and fun on a weekend afternoon!

 

[Ultimajock]

How was the country divided into TV territories for wrestling back in the day...was it roughly akin to their live card traveling territory?

...yep. Gagne's AWA had eaten so heavily into Western NWA territories by 1980 that it stretched from Milwaukee and Green Bay on the Easternmost end to San Francisco, down to Phoenix and up to Winnipeg. And, for a while, they were also hooked up with Southwest Championship Wrestling (Nick Bockwinkel appeared as AWA champ a couple of times in the run that SCW had on USA network) and nudged out the NWA as the national affiliating body for Jerry Jarrett's Memphis operation. The WW(W)F was always the Northeast, roughly triangulated by Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Montreal. Some promotions, like Bob Luce's Chicago office and the one in Houston, would use talent from WWWF, AWA and NWA pretty much interchangably (one memorable card had the AWA's Bockwinkel, NWA's Harley Race and whoever the WWWF champion was at the time -- Bob Backlund?), and in Vince McMahon Sr.'s day, he'd have NWA Championship matches on WWWF house shows at Madison Square Garden...

 

[cowboybud]

How was the country divided into TV territories for wrestling back in the day...was it roughly akin to their live card traveling territory? Here in Louisville (and a huge chunk of the Southeastern US), Nick Gulas and Roy Welch's National Wrestling Alliance held sway, both with Tuesday night live cards and Saturday afternoon TV shows produced at (I believe) WMC-TV, Memphis, airing locally on WAVE-TV. I think Gulas was the father-in-law or grandfather of wrestler, and later promoter, Jerry Jarett.

Tojo Yamamoto, Dick (Afflis) The Bruiser, Dr. Ken Ramey and The Interns...hokey, corny plots and fun on a weekend afternoon!

I think Louisville had its own TV when Gulas was promoting.

Gulas and Jarrett were not related. Jarrett's mother was Gulas' secretary, I believe.

 

[Ultimajock]

...and, of course, Angelo Poffo's opposition territory, International Championship Wrestling, from 1978 to 1984, "invaded" parts of the WWA (Indiana), AWA (mainly Eastern Wisconsin) and Jarrett's Memphis territories from their Lexington, Kentucky, base...