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Bob Caudle and Jim Goodmon at WRAL
Weathercaster, newsman, and Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling host Bob Caudle and Capitol Broadcasting Corporation President Jim Goodmon taking part in a humorous 1976 promo campaign when Bob...
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Jay "Dude" Walker Appears on Starrcade 83
WWE Network Screen GrabWe're looking for more information on this fellow appearing with Bob Caudle and Gordon Solie on the Starrcade '83 closed-circuit extravaganza from Thanksgiving night 1983.His...
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Charlie Harville spotlight in Greensboro Newspaper (1962)
Thanks to Mark Eastridge who passed this along to us. This was a notice about time changes of WFMY channel 2 (Greensboro) news and sports reports in February of 1962. A few years before Harville became...
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Ed Capral Signs Off Wide World Wrestling
INCLUDES RARE VINTAGE AUDIOLegendary wrestling announcer Ed Capral hosted Wide World Wrestling, a brand new program for Jim Crockett Promotions, from 1975-1978.Capral was the longtime host for pro...
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Got to Have Lovin': New Theme Music and Set for Mid-Atlantic Wrestling (1979)
There were lots of great music themes over the years for Jim Crockett Promotions TV shows, but likely the most remembered is the 1979-1986 theme for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling. The music was...
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"Greenville is My Town" - 1978 Article in The Tiger mentions WFBC's Billy Powell
Ring announcer Billy Powell (R) withGreenville promoter Paul Winkhausby Dick BourneMid-Atlantic GatewayBack in November of 1978, the student newspaper at Clemson University called "The Tiger" ran an...
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Voice of WFBC Wrestling (and Greenville Ring Announcer) Billy Powell with Ric...
GREENVILLE NEWS"Nature Boy" Ric Flair puts the badmouth on U.S. Champion Jimmy Snuka (just out of frame) before Flair's challenge to regain the title at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium in...
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"Championship Wrestling" debuts in Charlotte on WBTV Channel 3 (1958)
by Dick BourneMid-Atlantic GatewayThere was history in the making in this January 1958 Charlotte News article. Promoter Jim Crockett had finally arranged for televised wrestling in his home base of...
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Roanoke Sports Club Audio Tag
In the late 1970s, Roanoke promoter Pete Apostolou tagged a little promotional audio segment onto the end of the Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling program that aired on WSLS-10 in the greater Roanoke...
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The WESC Wrestling Radio Show in Greenville
Greenville News (Greenville SC) May 14, 1978Article by Deb RichardsonClippings from the collection of Mark Eastridge Read more about the WESC Wrestling Show with Fred Nabors on the Mid-Atlantic Gateway...
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Saturday Night Wrestling
I miss when wrestling was a one-hour, Saturday, late night type of thing.
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Ed Capral and Paul Jones on Wide World Wrestling
Host Ed Capral and U.S. Champion Paul Joneson the set of Wide World Wrestling in WRAL TV studio.Wide World Wrestling - Opening Theme (1975-1978)listen/download the audio file hereWide World Wrestling...
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Wide World Wrestling Theme Music
by Dick BourneMid-Atlantic Gateway(Includes rare, exclusive audio tracks embedded below.)When I first got "hooked" on Mid-Atlantic Wrestling, one of the things (other than the great wrestling) that I...
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The Lost Art of Great Ring Announcing
Legendary Joe McHugh introduces "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers I have a fondness for many of the old-school ring announcers. They all had a a certain flair for the dramatic, and made the introduction of any...
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Studio Wrestling Interview: Mark De Castrique (WBTV Director)
2012 Mid-Atlantic Gateway Interview withMARK DE CASTRIQUEEarly 1970s Director of Championship Wrestling at WBTV-3 Image: markdecastrique.comIn 2012, I had the good fortune to have an email exchange...
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WDBJ cancels Wrestling from Roanoke (1967)
In January of 1967, the popular "All Star Wrestling" show that aired live from WDBJ TV studios in Roanoke, VA, since 1960 was cancelled following an ugly on-air incident between wrestlers Ike Eakins...
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Classic Roanoke TV Ad from 1962
A very nice newspaper ad for "Wrestling from Roanoke" airing live on WDBJ-7 from Roanoke, Virginia. The ad mentions the show's host, local Roanoke TV personality Hal Grant, and features a photo of...
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Timekeeper's Table, Greenville SC
Greenville Memorial Auditorium, circa 1970Front Left to Right: Floyd Ulmer, promoter Paul Winkhaus, ring announcer Billy Powell, and timekeeper Wayne Hamby. Back left against wall: Don Holbrook.(Photo:...
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Jim Cornette Explains All About the TV Distribution Process for JCP in the 1980s
Crockett TV Production / Local PromosBriarbend Driver, Charlotte, NCArcadian Vanguard The following is a transcript from a brief segment of the popular "Cornette Drive Thru" podcast where Jim Cornette...
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Johnny Weaver and Bob Bruggers make an Impact on A Young Man at WGHP
FROM THE GATEWAY MAILBOX: A LETTER TO THE GATEWAY FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF OUR WGHP STUDIO TELEVISION FEATUREI spent many days at the TV tapings at High Point, and I got to know a lot of the guys, at...
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Studio Wrestling Interview: Video Tech Tom Gallagher from WRAL
Tom Gallagher worked in videotape at WRAL television from 1979 until 1982 and his adventures with the JCP wrestling crew that moved into the Raleigh studio "A" every Wednesday paint the most complete...
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Promoter Paul Winkhaus (JCP/Greenville SC)
PROMOTER PAUL C. WINKHAUSWinkhaus was the promoter in Greenville SC and surrounding area for Jim Crockett Sr. in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Edited E-mail to the Mid-Atlantic Gateway from...
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Worlds Collide: Championship Wrestling and ACC Basketball
"Gypsy Joe, nay, not even Jim Austeri, was ever the villian that Bob Lakata was when he hit a free throw for Duke to send the game into its first overtime." - Ronald Green, Charlotte NewsBy Dick...
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Rich Landrum Passes Away
Sad to report that Rich Landrum passed away quietly back on August 14. Rich is fondly remembered as the host of Jim Crockett Promotions'World Wide Wrestling syndicated wrestling show from October 1978...
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