Black Saturday is the name given by wrestling fans on July 14, 1984, when Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation took over the Saturday night time slots on WTBS that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling. Professional wrestling is a form of performance art in which the performers act out a scripted wrestling match. ... July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1984. ... Vincent Kennedy McMahon Jr. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... TBS also stands for Tokyo Broadcasting System, a Japanese television network. ... Georgia Championship Wrestling was a program that aired in the 1980s on American cable televisions Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). ...

Georgia Championship Wrestling had just began promoting under the name World Championship Wrestling, a name most wrestling fans would be synonymous with throughout the 1990s as still part of the National Wrestling Alliance. Jack Brisco and Gerald Brisco had major stakes in the organization while Ole Anderson was head booker and was basically in charge of operations. It has been suggested that List of WCW programming be merged into this article or section. ... Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... The National Wrestling Alliance NWA is a group of independent professional wrestling promotions, in operation since 1948. ... Freddie Joe Brisco most to known as Jack Brisco (born September 21, 1941 in Blackwell, Oklahoma) was a popular and successful professional wrestler during 1970s, and into the 1980s. ... Gerald Brisco Floyd Gerald Brisco (born January 24, 1950 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American former professional wrestler. ... Ole Anderson Alan Rogowski (better known as Ole Anderson) was a professional wrestling performer and promotion executive. ... A booker, as the term is used in professional wrestling, is a person who puts matches together and determines basics about their content, such as relative overall length, who the eventual victor will be, and many of the moves which will be made during the match; in other words, the...

GCW also became the first NWA territory to gain access to a cable TV deal on Saturday evenings. GCW was famous for providing a more athletic showcase rather than cartoonish characters like WWF did and therefore had a completely different fanbase. Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ...

While still running steadily, both Briscos sold their entire stock in the business (including the TV deal) to Vince McMahon. The WWF show on TBS was a ratings disaster. GCW's core audience hated the WWF's soap opera approach, preferring a more athletic style¹. Bill Watts' Mid South Wrestling was able to even gain better TBS ratings over this program as well [[1]]. Despite originally promising to produce original programming for the TBS timeslot in Atlanta, McMahon chose instead to provide only a clip show for TBS, featuring highlights from other WWF programming as well as matches from house shows at Madison Square Garden, Boston Garden and other major arenas. In May 1985, McMahon sold the TBS timeslot and GCW name to Jim Crockett, Jr., under heavy pressure from Ted Turner. That would set up a rivalry between McMahon and Turner that would continue for over a decade. When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are generally reduferring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach, The ATL, A-Town Location in Fulton County in the state of Georgia Coordinates: Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, Dekalb Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area    - City 343. ... In television, a clip show is an episode of a series, usually a sitcom, that consists primarily of excerpts from previous episodes, generally depicted as a sequence of flashbacks given plausibility by a frame tale. ... DX wrestling The Spirit Squad at a WWE house show in Syracuse, New York. ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ... Boston Garden ISBN:0738511528 The Boston Garden was an arena built in 1928 and demolished in 1998 after the completion of its new successor arena, the FleetCenter, now called TD Banknorth Garden. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jim Crockett, Jr. ... Robert Edward Turner III (born November 19, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. ...