Former Turner Broadcasting Chairman and CEO Jamie Kellner, who was responsible for canceling WCW programming in 2001, died at the age of 77 on Friday.

WCW's average ratings dropped almost a full point from 1999 to 2000, which was the kiss of death for television executives at TBS and TNT who were itching to jettison pro wrestling anyway.

McMahon said the WWF would not be responsible for making good on the advertising dollars that TNT and TBS had sold for future cablecasts of the two WCW series that Turner has scrapped.

WCW Saturday Night was a weekly Saturday night TV show on TBS produced by World Championship Wrestling. The program existed through various incarnations under different names before becoming WCW ...

25 years apart, WWE's biggest competition aired on TNT and TBS, with Sting in the ring and Schiavone on commentary. But AEW is far more than a WCW rehash.