Rob's Wrestling Beat...
Tuesday September 19 ......... 7:00 PM ET UPDATE: ECW on TNN last Fri night did a .08..... ECW tapes for Hardcore TV this Fri night in Salem, NH..... Viacom announces that TNN will change its name to The National Network and move its HDQs from Nashville to NYC....... 'Net rumors have Mick Foley the driver of the car which ran down Austin and have Foley turning heel this Sun..... Battle Royal scheduled for Nitro next Mon night to decide the new WCW Tag Champs..... Tank Abbott's Sinatra gimmick is on hold..... WWF Raw over WCW Nitro last night, 5.7 to 2.8...... 12:00 AM ET UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS....The judge in the Delaware Court of Appeals has rejected the USA Networks appeal; the WWF has been freed to go to Viacom this fall. This puts WWF programming on MTV and TNN beginning next Mon night..... Women of Wrestling starts Oct 2 in syndication.... Dusy Rhodes' Turnbuckle Ch Wrestling tapes Oct 28. They are running Sats/Suns in Ga and looking to syndicate for TV in Ga and Flo..... Harley Race arrested Sep 5 for boating intoxicated..... ECW has ppvs booked for Oct 1 in St Paul, Nov 5 in Villa Park, Ill and Dec 3 in NY..... Drug bust allegedly called for by David Crockett last Mon morning @ the Nitro production truck, parked in Charlotte. The bust turned up nothing; seems the boys had smuggled some stuff across the Canadian border a few weeks earlier.The Previous Column