World Wrestling Entertainment is launching its own radio station next week.
Starting from Monday July 27th, WWE Radio will be on SiriusXM (satellite radio broadcaster).
The station will broadcast live events like SummerSlam, the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania as well as other programming.
It's quite a controversial move because Busted Open Radio - a weekday show, which currently airs on SiriusXM - is part of the package.
In my - and many others' - opinion, Busted Open has been compromised. I cannot envision them giving other companies attention now that the big W W and E is written on the marquee.
I'm old enough to remember when there was a 'Radio WWF' syndicated show back in the early 1990s. It obviously didn't reach me here in the UK, but I was fascinated by the idea of wrestling content being broadcasted over the airwaves.
And as I wrote that, an old memory immediately returned to me. Something I hadn't recalled until moments ago:
Back in 1992, there was a wrestling radio show I could pick up on my satellite TV box if I tuned the dial when I had Eurosport (possibly Screensport!) on. I only caught the show once or twice. They reviewed the VHS tape of WCW Halloween Havoc 1990 on it. I ended up buying the videocassette because I was intrigued by what went down in the Sting versus Sid Vicious match.
The power of pro wrestling radio in full effect. Let's see if it works thirty-four years later.
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