WCW Saturday Night : Ask Biography

The WCW Saturday Night logo (1994-1999)

Television

Name

WCW Saturday Night

Format

Professional Wrestling

Created by

Jim Crockett Promotions / World Championship Wrestling

Starring

See World Championship Wrestling alumni

Theme music composer

Richard Harvey ("Dynamics")

Opening theme

"Dynamics" (1982-1987)

Composer

Richard Harvey ("Dynamics")

Country of origin

United States

Production

Location

WTBS' studios at 1050 Techwood Drive
Center Stage Theater in Atlanta

Camera setup

Multicamera setup

Running time

120 minutes per episode

Broadcast

Original channel

TBS

Picture format

480i (SDTV)

First aired

January 1972

Last aired

June 24, 2000

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'WCW Saturday Night' was a weekly Saturday night TV show on TBS produced by World Championship Wrestling. The program existed through various incarnations under different names before becoming WCW Saturday Night in 1992. Although initially the anchor show of the Ted Turner-backed wrestling company, the September 1995 premiere of WCW Monday Nitro airing on sister station Turner Network Television usurped the show's once preeminent position in the company, as the primary source of storyline development and Pay-Per-View buildup. The show's place in the company was further devalued by the advent of WCW Thunder in 1998, airing on TBS and providing the secondary wrestling and storyline development that WCW Saturday Night had produced in the wake of Nitro burgeoning three-hour long format. Once the cornerstone of the WCW wrestling empire, WCW Saturday Night ended its run in 2000 as the company struggled creatively to meet the demands of producing over six hours of new broadcast material on a weekly basis. The rights to WCW Saturday Night now belong to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a result of that company's 2001 takeover of WCW.