The Television Championship

The Greatest Podcast in the History of Our Sport

Television was a terrifying prospect, as millions of homes across the world were threatened by new technology that allowed images raging locomotives and men getting shot with old cannons to be wired into the living room. The potential for this new tech was quickly proven in its ability to contain and transport professional wrestling to the eyes of viewing audiences when a match between Rikidozan and Lou Thesz was found to have been viewed by roughly half the entire number of televisions in Japan when it aired live. Even so, wrestling is a business, and television is a tool to succeed in that business, but it’s not where the money lives, even today. Enter, the concept of the Television Championship, a belt that is just for the TV audience to get them to tune in, so in turn, they’ll show up to a show and spend money. Like many companies, WCW had such a title, and you’d be hard pressed to find one that saw the amount of talent wearing it than Billionaire Ted’s TV Belt. Guess what we’re here to talk about in this one? Tonight, on what will surely go down as the Greatest Podcast in the History of Our Sport, we discuss how Tully Blanchard should be getting royalties for Turbo Teen.