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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2021 6:52:27 GMT -5
...and RAW?
I was 10 when the Monday Night Wars ended, so I didn't really get into doing this. But did anyone else have multiple TVs on in their house or apartment, one on Nitro, one on RAW? Could've been in one room or multiple, but it seems to me that this had to have been fairly common...and how do you then measure which promotion is best if a house is split?
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Post by Ohtimate Wahriah on Apr 15, 2021 7:06:07 GMT -5
Oh God, back then we were lucky to have a single 22 inch tv in our bedroom, and having cable hooked up to it was a miracle haha. Me and my brothers actually had that in our bedroom that we shared and we would constantly be flipping back and forth between the shows. It wasn’t as crazy as you’d think, anytime one went to a commercial we’d switch to the other. Anytime something boring was on, we’d switch to the other. (Instant switches included Tiger Ali, Brawl for All, Ernest Miller, Normal Smiley).
That’s kinda a forgotten thing from back then, when somebody brings up “ugh the brawl for all was so stupid”. I can’t tell ya I even watched a single fight, as soon as it went on I’d switch to WCW haha. So no, no double tv’s. I wouldn’t have even wanted 2 because there was plenty of stuff on each show I couldn’t care about so it was a good opportunity to switch to the other show and see what’s going on.
Choosing what we watched outright depended on what we saw when we first turned it on. If I wanted to watch WCW & my brother wanted to watch WWF, one of us would complain and criticize until we got what we wanted haha, kinda like we do now on the internet 😆
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Post by wolfpac on Apr 15, 2021 8:27:06 GMT -5
Yessir, my living room and parents room had TVs and were the same floor. So you could hear each one from the other, RAW was usually the living room since WWF was what I preferred, but if I heard something on Nitro I'd go watch it,
However thats because we have cable in 98 and would get American stations, in Canada TSN would air Nitro on Tuesdays so later on when we dropped the cable, I would just watch WCW on a separate day.
Funny thing is, I made my parents get cable again in 2000 for UPN and Smackdown since it didn't air here at all till way later. Although my mom wanted UPN for Buffy and Angel, it worked for us both lol.
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Post by K5 on Apr 15, 2021 8:44:48 GMT -5
Yessir, my living room and parents room had TVs and were the same floor. So you could hear each one from the other, RAW was usually the living room since WWF was what I preferred, but if I heard something on Nitro I'd go watch it, However thats because we have cable in 98 and would get American stations, in Canada TSN would air Nitro on Tuesdays so later on when we dropped the cable, I would just watch WCW on a separate day. Funny thing is, I made my parents get cable again in 2000 for UPN and Smackdown since it didn't air here at all till way later. Although my mom wanted UPN for Buffy and Angel, it worked for us both lol. I was a rural Canadian kid so I didn't even have availability to cable, but my antenna somehow pulled the signal from UPN from across Lake Huron in Michigan and I could watch (static filled episodes of) smack down. |
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Post by JC Motors on Apr 15, 2021 12:19:40 GMT -5
Nope
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Apr 15, 2021 12:20:16 GMT -5
I am Canadian and thanks to having an illegal DirecTV satellite dish hooked up, I got to witness the Monday Night Wars happen off USA Network and TNT.
It's not really as intense as you think it was. I was 15 years old in 1996 when my friends and I split to get the DirecTV dish, and our first Raw and Nitro shows was the Monday right after the King of the Ring. So it was very cool to have both shows.
Before that, WCW Nitro would air the following Saturday at 1 pm on a TV station from London, Ontario. But the only Raw clips we would see is off WWF Superstars that aired Saturday at 12 noon on WADL TV 38 from Detroit, Michigan.
The "Monday Night War" of what show to watch really was based on what wrestlers we enjoyed seeing. If Malenko vs. Mysterio was on Nitro and Raw had Godwinns vs. Bulldog & Vader, we would watch WCW. If Nitro had Joe Gomez & The Renegade vs. Kevin Sullivan & Hugh Morrus and Raw had Shawn Michaels vs. Billy Gunn, we would watch Raw.
So as exciting as the Monday Night Wars gets made out by the WWE now when they produce their documentaries on that era, it really wasn't as intense as they make it out to be. Fans would just pick their spots in what to watch. Favourite wrestlers, or favourite feuds, or story lines would always win in what was picked to watch at that time.
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Post by Nivro™ on Apr 18, 2021 12:03:59 GMT -5
At the start Id watch Nitro and tape RAW to watch the next day. As RAW started to pick up Id watch the first hour of Nitro, all of RAW and then watch the replay of Nitro later
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2021 13:39:36 GMT -5
i always watched nitro, and taped raw. but would switch channels back n forth when things got boring.
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Post by CM Tusk on Apr 18, 2021 14:40:16 GMT -5
I did. Watch Nitro until RAW started and then put it on mute and focused on RAW. That stopped when Goldberg beat Hogan and I lost interest in WCW.
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Post by PJ on Apr 18, 2021 15:13:37 GMT -5
I would watch Nitro and flip to RAW during commercial breaks or it Nitro had a match I wasn’t interested in. And if I wanted to watch all of RAW I would record It onto a vhs while I watched Nitro. And watch the raw tape sometime over the next day or two.
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