WCW Power Hour was the original Friday night wrestling show for World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling, Inc. was an American professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it began as a regional promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance , named Jim Crockett Promotions until November 1988, when Ted Turner and...

, airing on TBS.

Unlike most television (and wrestling) shows that started their program either at the top or bottom of the hour, WCW Power Hour aired 10 minutes before the bottom of the hour at 10:20 p.m. Later when it was moved to Saturday mornings, it adopted a more traditional television time slot.

The rights to WCW Power Hour now belong to World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...

 (WWE).

"WCW Gauntlet"

It was one of three TBS wrestling shows to have WCW's ill-fated "WCW Gauntlet", where a wrestler would have to win all three of his matches on NWA Power Hour, NWA World Championship Wrestling, and NWA Main Event in order to win $

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15,000.

Cancellation

The final, and 301st episode of WCW Power Hour (previously NWA Power Hour) aired on March 12, 1994.

Canadian version

A Canadian version of WCW Power Hour ran on TSN

The Sports Network

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 from 1991

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 to 1993

1993 in television

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. That version was originally hosted by Jim Ross

Jim Ross

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 and Paul E. Dangerously

Paul Heyman

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, who would later be joined by Missy Hyatt. Later broadcast teams on the show would include:

• Eric Bischoff
  Eric Bischoff
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   and Missy Hyatt
• Eric Bischoff and Teddy Long
• Tony Gilliam and Teddy Long
• Gordon Solie
  Gordon Solie
  Jonard Frank Labiak , better known as Gordon Solie, was a Florida-based professional wrestling play-by-play announcer working for World Championship Wrestling...
  
   and Larry Zbyszko
  Larry Zbyszko
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  (the final announcing team before the show's cancellation in 1994)