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Heyman addressing the crowd at an ECW television taping in 1999. ECW struggled for months after the cancellation, trying to secure a new national television deal. On December 30, 2000, ECW Hardcore TV aired for the last time and the January 7, 2001, broadcast of Guilty as Charged was ECW's last PPV. ECW's January 13, 2001 show in Pine Bluff ...
WWE ECW (officially known as simply ECW and colloquially known as ECW on Sci-Fi or ECW on Syfy and WWECW, a portmanteau of both "WWE" and "ECW") is an American professional wrestling television program that was produced by WWE, based on the independent Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion that lasted from 1992 to 2001.
Hardcore TV aired in permanent time slots in ECW's home territories of Philadelphia and New York City, and was also syndicated. [8] Shows were broadcast on a Philadelphia local cable sports station, SportsChannel America's [ 9 ] local affiliate, SportsChannel Philadelphia , on Tuesday evenings at 6pm until January 9, 1997 when the show moved to ...
On February 2, 2010, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon announced that ECW would be going off the air and would air its final episode on February 16. [10] The final match on the show was an extreme rules match where Ezekiel Jackson defeated ECW Champion Christian. [11] With the ECW brand permanently disbanded, the ECW roster were assigned to other ...
Ceased operations after NBC's purchase of an interest in The Weather Channel. NewsTalk Television: Multimedia, Inc. 1995: Existed from 1994 to 1995; formerly known as the Talk Channel. Newsworld International: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/USA Broadcasting: July 31, 2005: Launched on June 1, 1994. Replaced by Current TV. RT America (ANO) TV ...
During the 1990s, Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) rose to become the third-largest wrestling company in North America, behind the WWF and WCW. In 1999, it secured a cable deal to air a program on TNN , but the next year, TNN gained rights to WWF programming and dropped ECW, which folded in April 2001, shortly after the ...
ECW on TNN was the highest-rated show on TNN through 2000, despite limited advertising (which was a point of contention with ECW officials). [12] ECW on TNN and RollerJam formed the core of the network's "Friday Night Thrill Zone" program block , which was responsible for an increase in the network's young male viewership on Friday nights.
WWE held ECW One Night Stand, an ECW reunion pay-per-view event on June 12, 2005, with Raw and Smackdown! superstars taking on “ECW Originals”. [53] On May 26, 2006, WWE officially announced the relaunch of ECW with its own show on NBC Universal's Sci Fi Channel, later to be known as Syfy, starting June 13, 2006.