TNT really knew how to get people to watch a new show back then

**Loose Cannon** · 03-05-2009, 11:26 PM

So here was a slick tactic to get people to watch the premire episode of a show.

I was watching the 2nd week of January Monday Nitro of 1997. The hot storyline at the time was nWo turning on Giant weeks before and Giant wanting his title shot with Hogan.

They announce Hogan vs Giant as the main event 30 minutes into the show. Tony Schivonie sells it only like he could.

Well TNT got smart. They had a new show called The New Adventures of Robin Hood premering after Nitro. So Hogan/Giant went on for about 2 minutes and then they were to go to Robin Hood. Well TNT decided to continue running Hogan/Giant during commercial breaks and then go back to the Robin Hood show. LOL. This is how hot wrestling was back then. Instead of running commercials, they ran wrestling. And it was hillarious to here Schivonie promoting Robin Hood towards the end of Nitro. god I loved those times.

I know I watched that show, but I don't remember the Robin Hood thing. This was the same show where DDP fake joined the nWo and them instantly became a top babyface in the company

03-05-2009, 11:26 PM	#1
Loose Cannon I'm all there is Posts: 31,811	TNT really knew how to get people to watch a new show back then So here was a slick tactic to get people to watch the premire episode of a show. I was watching the 2nd week of January Monday Nitro of 1997. The hot storyline at the time was nWo turning on Giant weeks before and Giant wanting his title shot with Hogan. They announce Hogan vs Giant as the main event 30 minutes into the show. Tony Schivonie sells it only like he could. Well TNT got smart. They had a new show called The New Adventures of Robin Hood premering after Nitro. So Hogan/Giant went on for about 2 minutes and then they were to go to Robin Hood. Well TNT decided to continue running Hogan/Giant during commercial breaks and then go back to the Robin Hood show. LOL. This is how hot wrestling was back then. Instead of running commercials, they ran wrestling. And it was hillarious to here Schivonie promoting Robin Hood towards the end of Nitro. god I loved those times. I know I watched that show, but I don't remember the Robin Hood thing. This was the same show where DDP fake joined the nWo and them instantly became a top babyface in the company