Talk about selling professional wrestling to the local stations in Los Angeles
You didn't mention that but yeah, it was the biggest thing and I thought I saw three other stations
Was there a block by the stations of resistance to that at first?
No
they then resisted at all KTLA became so big with it that KTTV which
we sold at the eastside brewery for a year's contract a
version of it
Same stars and different the boys did a different turn
Presentation we had on three stations NBC
KTTV and and
KLA see
Did they show it the same program three different?
Different nights they all did big ratings
Now the recession wrestling's still on
Were there any
clients that you recall that were
Connected with those early shows that you got that you pulled him into those with professional wrestling
Yeah, or any of the other and I never had clients professional wrestling only the producers
And the station did well with it
They kept buying it every year
number-one show
You mentioned the stations that it was on. Why didn't KCBS buy it?
Because Jim Aubrey was a was the head man at CBS. He said why should I pay you for something like I do myself?
I said you don't know the wrestlers Jim. So he did it himself. There was a guard he found the wrestlers
I say you got the names are what counts Jim? It's the same as showbiz. Any partner Sjogren's
You know, what? Did he do wrong? He brought new
personalities in wrestlers to
Where as the audience was familiar with the old UNS? I think the audience was familiar with the wrestlers on KTLA Lord Blair's
Sagas brothers Argentine Roca, those are the names that Bradbury though some names that attractive
