Paid Members mim731 Posted February 13, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 13, 2018 Were Bravo showing that at one stage? I have vague recollections of that airing around the same time as when they were showing old ECW episodes, although that may have been re-runs of Bushido/me getting my timeline muddled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeRobertsParoleOfficer Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Did anyone ever have one of those chipped Nynex cable.boxes? They were doing the rounds in my area. You just needed the most basic cable package and use the box. Everything free (ppv, porn etc). Cost about £100 buy my God worth it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Four Horsemen Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 On 13/09/2011 at 8:31 PM, Big Benny HG said: Nope. Neither did Yorkshire TV, which was the other ITV affiliate we can get around here. It was only ever shown at about half-midnight on a Monday night/Tuesday morning. Everyone used to set their VCR timers overnight (or, if you were really lucky, you were allowed to get up and watch it) and then scramble to watch it on the Tuesday morning before going to school, since you knew everyone would be talking about it. Of course, if you hadn't managed to catch it, there was always some wise-ass who would claim that Ultimate Warrior had turned up to help Sting fight Nikita Koloff, or that PN News or Big Josh or someone had won the title from Ric Flair. They were just some of the rumours we had if you hadn't watched. They were quite behind at first, showing stuff from the first half of 1991 in late 91/early 92, but seem to remember it then jumped to just a few months behind later in 1992. I remember that and setting the video to record the episodes. One in particular where it was Flair vs Flyin Brian, I swear they actually speeded up the match on the tape so it would fit in the time slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted February 13, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 13, 2018 1 hour ago, The Four Horsemen said: I remember that and setting the video to record the episodes. One in particular where it was Flair vs Flyin Brian, I swear they actually speeded up the match on the tape so it would fit in the time slot. Off-topic, but they did that on the New Japan episode on the in-flight entertainment on my flight back from Japan. Naito-Omega from G1 last year, sped up from 28 minutes to 22 minutes. Looked utterly ludicrous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maikeru Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 7 hours ago, JNLister said: Off-topic, but they did that on the New Japan episode on the in-flight entertainment on my flight back from Japan. Naito-Omega from G1 last year, sped up from 28 minutes to 22 minutes. Looked utterly ludicrous. Was that Japan Airlines? Really shocked they had any wrestling at all tbh. Shows just how much progress New Japan have made towards achieving more mainstream visibility in the past few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted February 14, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 14, 2018 Yep, Japan Airline. They had a one-hour show (which appears to be a fixture now with a new 'episode' each month.) This had Choshu-Tenyru from the 1993 Dome show and then Naito-Omega. They were... different matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthedoctor Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 On 07/09/2011 at 4:48 PM, bAzTNM#1 said: It was Cartoon Network then it changed into TNT. Must have been around 7pm. Ain't so sure about that. TNT must have started showing Nitro in around December 1995. Definately very late 1995. According to my big log book of what I taped Ive got 12th April 1996 being the date of the UK debut. They were a week behind so showed Luger/Flair as the main event. On 10/09/2011 at 6:49 AM, lightningxlock said: Does anybody know when DSF started airing the WCW PPV's? Somebody mentioned as far back as Fall Brawl '93. The first event I caught on there was Starrcade '94 for sure. Being a young kid and so utterly obsessed with wrestling it blew my mind. I've got nobody but my dad to thank for finding WCW on there and thus finding out when each show was on and recording most of it for me. If it wasn't for him, id've probably never known with being so young. It was awesome later on watching Nitro on TNT when they'd be discussing the previous nights PPV and you knew you only had afew weeks to wait before you could see it yourself The first show I saw was nearly finished as tuned in during Dustin Rhodes mystery Road Warrior partner, was a clash that had Bulldog/Vader as the Main Event. I think they changed the times alot as I tuned in at half 8 and it had already started despite the TV guide book saying 10pm. On 14/09/2011 at 8:24 AM, bAzTNM#1 said: WCW was never shown up here in Scotland. It might have been shown in the Borders area, but it didn't make it as far as Glasgow. I dont know about everyone else but in Norfolk we got WCW Pro on a late Sunday morning at 1:50am alough they repeated it on a Thursday. Then they changed the timeslot to Saturday afternoon and put Worldwide on instead which was great just a shame had to go out on a Sat afternoon but when I caught it I didnt like how they reduced the time slot to just 35 mins after a few months so alot must have got cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnB Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 On 11/18/2011 at 5:30 PM, Doctor Whos Next said: I thought that was Mick McManus? I believe McManus was first in early 93. Then it was a columnist called 'Wolf,' who I think was a pseudonym of future WCW magazine editor Colin Bowman and then Fin Martin did the column in the Sattelite Times from late 93 until about 1998 I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted February 14, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 14, 2018 I'm sure that WCW PPV's were being shown in 1993. A few days after we finally got Sky in May of that year, I remember my head almost exploding when I came across an episode of WCW Saturday Night on DSF, with JYD wrestling. It wasn't long until I'd figured out enough German to use DSF's teletext pages to find out when the wrestling was next on. I can remember there was even a short 30 minute WCW slot on Saturday afternoons. It felt that they showed every single piece of WCW programming at the time. However, I'll never forget that unfortunate incident, aged 9 or 10, where I'd gone to bed and left Slamboree 94 (I think) to record. Youngsters won't remember this, but with analogue sky boxes, your VCR recorded whatever Sky channel you were watching at the time. So it appeared that my Dad apparently came home from the pub midway through the show, as Brutus Beefcake/The Butcher was making his entrance, and started flicking through the German softcore porn channels. It wouldn't have been so bad if I wasn't watching the tape back the following morning with my sister in the same room. I think I broke a land speed record in diving towards the VCR and pressing stop before she raised her head from the gameboy. (The German chat line adverts and quality late night programming on VOX deserves its own thread!) Does anyone else remember the WWF's short lived run on DSF as well? The WWF was always on RTL 2 but I remember having a copy of Wrestlemania 12 taped off DSF. The best thing about RTL 2's coverage was they never dubbed over the interviews and promos, usually subtitling them instead. They also showed a few "Coliseum Video Exclusives" that weren't shown on Sky Sports. Looking back, I was a rather sad child in watching episodes of WWF Superstars in German, a fortnight after I'd already seen it on Sky Sports, in the hope they might show a fresh segment or match. (In fairness though, German commentators usually kept their traps shut during wrestlers' entrances, so you could at least record their entrance themes onto audio cassette for later use with your action figures.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Cod Eye Posted February 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2018 We didn't get any wrestling on terrestrial TV in Yorkshire, but I remember the joy I experienced when I slept at my granparent's and while trying to tune their TV better I found they could pick up (I think) Tyne-Tees TV, I presume as they lived really high up on the top of a hill so had a better reception(did Emley Moore mast broadcast other regions ITV variants?). They were quite old at the time and weren't up with the technology of the early 90's so didn't have a video recorder. I saved up for weeks to be able to buy a cheap, second hand VHS recorder for them and meticulously set it to record the show for the next four weeks. So imagine my weekly disappointment when I got there for my weekly visit and nothing had recorded. Turns out they were worried buglers would see the digital clock on a night so they used to switch the sodding thing off. No matter how much I pleaded with them to leave it, or to put something over the readout, it always fell on deaf ears... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoUseforaUsername Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 WCW followed by Freddy's Nightmares. Evening sorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam O'Rourke Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 On 06/09/2011 at 7:37 PM, air_raid said: Worldwide was a great pre-cursor to Gladiators on ITV in 1993, that's all I care to remember. Hearing "Simply Ravishing!" before Rick came out to crush some loser, Thunder & Lightening ruining some jobber with their fancy-dan clothesline finisher, such luminaries as Charlie Norris and the Cole Twins, and best of all, those Ron Simmons & Ice Train vs Tex Slazenger and Shanghai Pierce main events that there wasn't enough time to show the end of. On a taped show. Maybe I've just had my fill of 80s nostalgia, but suddenly the 90s seem better and better with each passing year. 1992 WcW, Sid, Gladiators, Power Rangers, no-one trying to force you to calorie-count, fewer cunts in the England team, actually needing to have some talent to get on telly, Gail Porter having hair, simpler tastes in porn, I could go one forever. P.S. - yes, I realize the thread was asking about Sky, but we were too poor to have Sky until the mid-90s, so please indulge me. Can't make it clear how much this spoke to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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