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#7 Years before the end of the Monday Night War, Vince McMahon took over World Championship Wrestling
In the early 1980s, the then-WWF was booming in business. Not only had they acquired Hulk Hogan, who would go on to be the biggest star in wrestling, but they were heavily promoting their WrestleMania card.
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In order to expand his empire, McMahon tried to purchase the World Championship Wrestling time slot owned by Georgia Championship Wrestling. TBS owner Ted Turner rejected McMahon outright, fearing that the cartoonish programming the WWE offered would not go over well with the traditional wrestling fandom.
McMahon would acquire a controlling stake in GCW, and took over the time slot anyway. Many wrestling fans were upset that WWE was now airing in GCW's old time slot, and wrote to the network and called them in droves. Remember, this was before the internet.
The letter writing and call in campaign worked, and while Turner couldn't stop WWE programming from airing on the network, he could provide alternatives in different time slots.
Eventually, McMahon lost a lot of money on GCW and wound up selling his stake. It would be many years before WWE programming was on a Turner station.
