April 23, 2001 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Relaunch of WCW, more
The Saturday morning tradition of Memphis studio wrestling, which dates back more than three decades, will continue in some form for at least two more months, but the final live show may have taken place over the weekend.
As mentioned last week, WMC-TV, which has housed the show in its television studios since the late 70s made the decision to cancel the show and informed Randy Hales of it last week. Even before WMC-TV got the show, it was a huge hit in Memphis, as it earlier aired live on a rival station in the market at their TV studio for many years dating back from when Lance Russell was a TV program director in the 60s and made the call to put studio wrestling, which was always strong in the market, on Saturday mornings. The decision was thought to be foolhardy at the time since Saturday mornings were thought to be the province of young children, and wrestling at the time drew an audience of largely adult males, who were thought not to be watching television during that time.
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