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Promoter Paul Winkhaus Winkhaus was the promoter in Greenville an Asheville and surrounding area for Jim Crockett Sr. in the 1950s and 1960s.
WLOS was the home of "Wide World Wrestling" and later "World Wide Wrestling" in the Asheville Greenville Spartanburg market.
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For some period of time in the 1960s and early 1970s (it's unclear for exactly how long), the wrestling show taped in High Point, NC at the studios of WGHP aired on WLOS television in Asheville. Championship Wrestling was one of two Crockett Promotions shows that aired in the market, along with All-Star Wrestling/Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling which was taped at WRAL in Raleigh. When WGHP host Charlie Harville would break away to do local spots for his home market of Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point, WLOS would break away simultaneously and air their own local spots for the upcoming shows at the Asheville City Auditorium. These spots were taped at the studios of WLOS-TV. The host for these segments was Muncey Millaway, who may have been the sports director at WLOS (research pending.) He sat at a desk with a wall behind him which was full of 8x10 black and white photographs of various wrestlers taken by Gene Gordon. Millaway would often be joined by Paul Winkhaus, the local promoter who worked for Jim Crockett, Sr. He and Millaway would announce and discuss the upcoming matches for Asheville. In the summer of 1974, the WGHP show was replaced by the 2nd taping of Mid-Atlantic Wrestling in Raleigh (for more info, visit the WRAL page) which was hosted by Les Thatcher. While it isn't clear when WLOS ceased doing their locally produced promotional spots for WLOS, they certainly ended at this point if they had not already. Thatcher did the voice over promotional spots for Asheville and studio promos with the wrestlers were taped at WRAL in Raleigh as well. Special thanks to Don Holbrook for his assistance with this feature. |
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| Call Letters: | WLOS | |||
| Channel Number: | 13 | |||
| Network Affiliate: | ABC | |||
| Aired: | Late 1960s, early 1970s | |||
| Local host: | Muncey Millaway | |||
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STATION HISTORY WLOS channel 13 is the ABC television affiliate in Asheville, North Carolina. It also serves other portions of western North Carolina, upstate South Carolina, northeastern Georgia and far-eastern Tennessee, including Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group and its sister station to WBSC-TV, the market's WB affiliate. WLOS' transmitter is located atop Mount Pisgah.
The station signed on air on September 18, 1954. However, its signal
didn't reach the entire market. The South Carolina portion of the market
was served by WAIM-TV, channel 40 in Anderson. WLOS boosted its signal
in to cover the South Carolina portion in 1979, and pressured ABC to
drop its affiliation with WAIM. Source: Wikipedia |
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