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Post by Baltimore Jack on Aug 29, 2006 21:53:42 GMT -5
Regarding the booking time frames mentioned above, I had always heard Wahoo briefly booked in there somewhere, and in fact someone has mentioned that on this board on another thread. Both Don Kernodle and Jim Nelson recently confirmed for me that Wahoo did indeed book after Ole went back to Georgia and before they brought Dory Funk in to book, but that it was only for a very short number of weeks.
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Post by danpoutsma on Aug 30, 2006 14:02:22 GMT -5
The corporate name was always Georgia Championship Wrestling, Inc., even when the TV and/or "brand" became "World Championship Wrestling".
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Post by RowdyRoddy on Aug 30, 2006 14:50:20 GMT -5
It was Georgia Championship Wrestling in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Around 1982, it switched from Georgia Championship Wrestling to World Championship Wrestling. After McMahon took the timeslot in April or May 1984, it stayed World Championship Wrestling. When Ole Anderson took back the timeslot that summer it became Championship Wrestling from Georgia, I think. Georgia and Mid-Atlantic merged (I think it was actually a takeover by Jim Crockett Jr.) in June 1985.
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Post by danpoutsma on Aug 30, 2006 16:46:04 GMT -5
Ole didn't take back the timeslot. He was given an early Saturday morning timeslot by Turner after Vince bought GCW and took over Saturday Night, and the name of that show was called "Championship Wrestling from Georgia". JCP took over CWG in late March '85 and the final two shows were taped with Tony Schiavone in place of Gordon Solie as host. On the morning of April 6th the final episode of CWG aired, while later that evening, Crockett Promotions made it's debut in the Saturday evening timeslot with "World Championship Wrestling" after having taken control of that from Vince.
The corporate name of the company Vince bought was Georgia Championship Wrestling, Inc. while the TV show/"brand name" from 1982 on was "World Championship Wrestling". But I've heard from a couple of people that the name of the show was changed back to "Georgia Championship Wrestling" after Vince took it over, so that's why I wanted to verify if it was correct or not since I've personally never seen any footage of the WWF on TBS.
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Post by bobbyryates on Aug 30, 2006 17:40:33 GMT -5
ole's group was called "championship wrestling from georgia".
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Post by RowdyRoddy on Aug 30, 2006 18:21:42 GMT -5
I do recall watching WWF action on WTBS in 1984; however, I do not recall the name of the TV show.
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Post by Baltimore Jack on Aug 30, 2006 20:26:28 GMT -5
 The TV show was called "World Championship Wrestling" throughout both transitions, and the same theme music and video opening was used throughout. Neither the WWF nor Corckett changed the names of the two evening shows and all three organizations (GCW, WWF, Crockett) used the same TV names and openings to the shows. Crockett changed the name of Ole's morning time slot they took over from "Championship Wrestling from Georgia" to simply "Championship Wrestling" |
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Post by danpoutsma on Aug 30, 2006 20:49:15 GMT -5
Thanks for the info Dick. I really appreciate it.
Another question. On the Dusty Rhodes as well as McMahon DVDs, they show a clip from the end of one of the "World Championship Wrestling" shows (with the same logo above) and it reads Copyright 1983 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. That seems to indicate that Turner's corp. owned the rights to the footage and not the Georgia promotion. Did the copyright notice always read that way up until Turner's World Championship Wrestling, Inc. took over from Crockett, or did it change at all during either or both of the WWF and JCP eras (e.g. Copyright Titan Sports, Inc. or Copyright Jim Crockett Promotions, Inc.)?
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