Day: February 10, 2005

Lucha Times updated

thecubsfan 2 Comments

Here.

Another 2 for most, 4 for some West Coasters split feed on Saturday. They hyped up the hair/hair stuff at the end last week, so I’m hoping that’ll be what will air. They always could go two hour AAA to balance two hour CMLL last week, but I’m hoping they’ve got that out of their system.

I think I’m back on track for Sundays, and I’ve added the AAA hour; charting things might actually be working out now. What’s really sad is I have that show recording and I still haven’t found a time to watch it by the time it’s come up on Vuelta.

As promised, I did a TLN index. Problem is, I can tape the GALA stuff and track down the info myself if no one else does, but I can’t exactly tape TLN, so I’m limited to people mentioning what aired on TLN or whatever. Luchaboard going down probably cost me another show or two, but eh. (Which is why a Canuck is probably better off mainatining it.)

Let’s try a TLN prediction for fun, and to see if I’ve got the pattern:

Dr. Wagner Jr. vs Universo 2000
Ricky/Alan/Zumbido vs Loco Max/Mr. Mexico/Sangre Azteca

How would you program Galavision’s lucha coverage

thecubsfan 1 Comment

I am so glad you asked.

I change my mind on this often, depending on what the lag is like, what’s coming up, and how I feel about AAA at the moment. But these are my current thoughts.

I’m going with the presumption that
– GALA wants to air all the tapes they’ve got backloaded
– They’re not intersted in expanding the amount of hours of lucha they air.

Consistent with what they’re doing right now.

My Plan:

Saturday Afternoon: CMLL only. If there’s a two hour episode, it airs complete. If it’s just a one hour episode, you air two of them, and actually catch up a little bit.

Sunday Afternoon: Instead of Vuelta (which is sorta pointless when you’re this far behind), you repeat the same thing with AAA – two hours slot, how ever much they can fit in. No skipping ahead here.

Saturday Night/Sunday Morning: I always figure it’s the hardest of the hardcore who watch the awfulest slot. Let’s reward them: each week, the newest footage they have. It’s gotta fit in the two hour slot, and it’s pointless if this slot starts getting a lag as well, so you cut shows in half if you have to, but keep this slot as a little bonus for those willing to deal with it

(And take the CMLL half of the show and ship it to Telelatino. Keeps them happy.)

Eventually! you may catch up to the new shows. This will be a day of celebration and happiness throughout the western hempishere.

At that point, I’d need to re-evaluate how things are going, but my instinct is to put Vuelta back on Sunday (but turn it way back – as far as they can find tapes, and let’s hope they can find some tapes). Saturday’s shows would be the new stuff – if it all can’t fit in the afternoon, you split the shows and air one promotion during the day and one promotion at night (but switching them up week to week to keep it fair.)

Now – can anyone put in touch with someone who might be able to excute the plan? That’d be neat.

sorta TLN recap

thecubsfan 1 Comment

LAW, showcasing it’s willingness to post a wide array of writers, has a CMLL recap for last week’s TLN show on their site right now. It’s, uh, creative? The enthuasim to dive right in without trying to figure out who’s who shows thru.

best line:

Match 2 is another 3-round 6-man tag between Capos(Leather Fetish Boys) and Boricuas(the Masked Ones).

Okay. That actually would make the belt stuff lamer, I think.

While I’m at, I really need to make a timeline/index for TLN’s shows already. I’m sure I can stumble thru the DVDVR posts and make myself a chart, but I may or may not have that time; if you’ve done it or know someone who’s recapping it, add a comment.

(I’ll be doing my own recaps…uh, sometime.)