Charlie Harville leaves WGHP

Charlie Harville on WFMY 2 in 1955

Charlie Harville hosting "The Outdoorsman" show on Wednesday evenings in 1955 at WFMY in Greensboro, NC.

Charlie Harville - WFMY

The ad is from May 13,1961.

IWA TV Show 1976

WGHP March 1,1969

These two ads appeared in the High Point Enterprise. Charlie Harville is interviewing George Becker at ringside in the ad on the right.

Championship Wrestling 1969

In 1969 my two brothers and I along with our Dad and Uncle would gather around the TV on Saturday evenings at 6:30 to watch Charlie Harville host Championship Wrestling. This show featured all of the best wrestlers who worked for Jim Crockett Promotions.

Wrestling & Dr. Paul Bearer

November 9,1968. Pictured from left to right in the Championship Wrestling portion is George Becker, Charlie Harville and Johnny Weaver. Dr. Paul Bearer (Dick Bennick) is the host of Shock Theatre.

Championship Wrestling

Championship Wrestling was taped in the studios of WGHP channel 8 in High Point, NC each week between February 1964 and July 1974. The show was hosted by Charlie Harville. After each match, Charlie would interview the winners at ringside about their matches coming up in Lexington, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and other smaller towns in the viewing area. This was a hugely popular show throughout it's run. It was certainly one of my favorites. The ad you see above is from Friday September 8, 1967. In an unusual move, the show aired on Friday at 6:00 p.m. during the 1967-68 TV season. The show returned to Saturday in the spring of 1968. The men in the photo are Chief Little Eagle, one of the masked Infernos and referee Walter Buckner.

Charlie Harville

Charlie Harville became the Sports Director at WGHP channel 8 in High Point, NC in October 1963. He held that position until leaving there around 1975. Charlie reported the sports on the nightly newscasts. He also did many of the ACC Basketball games and sometimes when the network came to cover a game ,he would announce those also. I first saw Charlie doing the sports on WFMY channel 2 in Greensboro during the fifties on up to the time he went over to channel 8. Charlie returned to WFMY sometime after leaving WGHP. My fondest memories of Charlie Harville is when he hosted "Championship Wrestling" on WGHP from 1964 to 1974. It was during that timeframe I was able to see Charlie Harville in person quite often as he was the ring announcer for the wrestling matches in Winston-Salem and Greensboro. I will be covering some of those shows here later. The ad is from January 1964.