Veteran wrestling announcer Tony Schiavone expressed deep personal significance about calling AEW Collision live on TBS this upcoming Saturday night (May 3rd) from Atlantic City, NJ, seeing it as a career coming full circle. Speaking on his “What Happened When” podcast, Schiavone connected the upcoming broadcast directly to his long history with wrestling on TBS, dating back to the Georgia Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling days.
“It never ceases to amaze me how my my career has come full circle,” Schiavone began. “On April 6, 1985… it was 40 years to the day that I had first been on TBS, and now for me to be calling a live Saturday show on TBS again, it’s, to me, it’s very, very, very special.” He briefly traced the lineage: “You know when it started as Georgia Championship Wrestling… in 72… in 79 the station became WTBS. In 82 they changed the name… to World Championship Wrestling… I first appeared in there in 1985…”
Schiavone recalled the evolution of WCW’s Saturday night programming, including the eventual name change to “WCW Saturday Night” after the Crockett sale to Turner Broadcasting in 1988, and his own history calling the show alongside various partners like Jesse Ventura. He lamented the show eventually becoming just a recap program (“heartbreaking”) given its historical importance as the flagship show at “6:05” for years.
“Here we are in 2025 and I’m going to do a Saturday night show on TBS again. That’s not lost on me. That’s not lost on how special it is for me personally,” Schiavone reiterated, clearly moved by the connection to his past. “So I’m really, really pumped about Saturday night show from Atlantic City and being live on TBS on a Saturday night… Really, really cool. Not lost on me.”
Schiavone discussed his history with TBS wrestling on the What Happened When podcast, available weekly on major podcast platforms.
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