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WWF LiveWire
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WWF LiveWire was a World Wrestling Federation television program that aired Saturday mornings on the USA Network from 1996 to 2000 and on TNN from 2000 to 2001. It was a revamp of the WWF's previous Saturday morning show, WWF Mania, and was hosted by Todd Pettengill, who had previously been the host of Mania. Sunny was Pettengill's co-host for its first few months.
In its initial format, LiveWire was broadcast live, and took fans' phone calls, letters, and faxes and respond to them on the air. This was the first WWF program to feature such an "interactive" element. The show was used to summarize the past week in the WWF and/or conduct interviews with current WWF stars, and allowed the fans to give their own opinions on what they saw, or ask questions of the in-studio guests.
Vince Russo made his WWF television debut on LiveWire, under the alias "Vic Venom" (the pseudonym under which he wrote articles for WWF Magazine). On another occasion, during a short-lived cross-promotional angle involving ECW-contracted talent "invading" WWF shows, Paul Heyman called in to LiveWire to deliver a (worked) shoot promo on the state of the WWF at the time. Faarooq also debuted the concept of the Nation of Domination on LiveWire.
Eventually, due to various factors (including an apparent inability by the WWF to decide whether they wanted the audience-participation elements to break kayfabe or not), LiveWire reverted to becoming a standard "week-in-review" recap show, similar to what Mania had been before it. After Pettengill left the WWF, Michael Cole began hosting LiveWire up until its cancellation. Livewire in the UK , was aired on Sky One , every Saturday at noon , after Smackdown until May 2002 , Livewire was replaced by The Bottom Line. In some ways, the original LiveWire format was carried on by the WWE's webcast, Byte This! (currently on hiatus), which included live call-in segments during in-studio interviews.
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