Primetime Central

History

First Member Feds

• PCW - Primetime Championship Wrestling
• DWF - Dream Wrestling Federation
• NTICW - New True Internet Championship Wrestling
• Club De La Lucha
• Eternal Wrestling

PTC's first introduction

Primetime Central was first announced to the general public on the August 31st, 2001 episode of PCW Friday Fusion. This date is considered to be PTC's birthday.

Friday Fusion starts off with a video tribute to the CEO of PCW, Tyler Nelson. With "Money" by Pink Floyd playing in the backround, the montage features footage from PCW Shanghai'ed, when Nelson was first declared the CEO of PCW.

Then, we are shown numerous scenes from PCW's dominant reign in Fedwars, led by Media, and spearheaded by Tyler Nelson. Then, the logo of Primetime Central drifts accross the screen, the logos of each involved federation appearing after it one by one. Finally, the logos of each of the properties acquired by Tyler Nelson materializes, over the superimposed image of the smirking CEO.

PCW...

Slow motion highlights of Ivan Stanislav, Jeremy Howard, Ed Novak and Trashcan Man, quickly move from left to right across the screen.

DWF...

Slow motion highlights of Joey T, Legend Inc., Canada’s Hero and Nerd V2.0 quickly move from left to right across the screen.

NTICW…

Slow motion highlights of Rob Freund, Kevin Klaymore and The Elia Brothers quickly move from left to right across the screen.

CLUB DE LA LUCHA…

Slow motion highlights of Shirata Rinjiro, Romeo and Agony quickly move across from left to right across the screen.

ETERNAL WRESTLING….

Slow motion highlights of Jacob Radder, Branson King and Professor Herbert D. Dorkiman quickly move from across the screen.

THE PRIMETIME WRESTLING ACADEMY…

Slow motion highlights of Ritchie Syxx, Corey Williams, Semore Smoke and Impact quickly moves from left to right across the screen.

Once the PWA logo fades from the screen, the screen, suddenly, gleaming white letters appear.

PRIMETIME CENTRAL IS HERE!!!

PTC's first event

Now referred to as GTT1, the Global Title Tournament featured 128 competitors.

PTC's second event

PTC Boiling Over, I-PPV, December 22, 2001

Trivia

• PTC was originally hosted at Steelramp.com. The primetimecentral.net domain and hosting was obtained after Steelramp owners disabled the account without notice.
• Primetimecentral.com was purchased much later, to stop a repeat of the fedwars.com / fedwars.net / fedwars.org fiasco.
• PTC has also been hosted at wrestleonline.org, and ewce.com.
• When PTC opened, it had a website as well as forums. Who knew?
• At the very height of its popularity, PTC had between 300 and 400 unique registered members visiting every day.
• PTC has a long-standing reputation for heavy moderation and banning members. It must have worked because there was a grand total of 2 trashbinned posts for the entire 2007 calendar year, and since 2003 only 8 people have earned permanent life bans. 2001 to 2002 would have seen 8 bans a week.
• A day and a half of down time on a shared host caused PTC to be moved onto a real self-managed server. Sadly, data centers are not invincible and PTC still gets one or two 6 hour outages a year.
• PTC was opened after Fedwars closed for the second time. Fedwars later reopened and the two (or is it three? Fedwars always was a bit schizophrenic...) sites actively competed with each other.
• PTC outlasted many incarnations of Fedwars, Revolution Studios, Revolution Wrestling and Project Xero.
• Revolution Studios was opened after its owners were kicked out of PTC when one of them vandalized PTC's site whilst being a PTC Fed Head. Too many bruskies, not enough brains, as the same guy later went on to delete the entire website of his own fed and try and blame PTC for it.
• During its life, PTC has used IkonBoard, T-Forum, PHPBB, IPB and VBulletin forums. Once you've used a legal copy of VBulletin, you can NEVER go back.
• The first two years of posts at PTC has been lost, but the current forums retain 95+% of all posts since September 2003.
• ewcentral.com, ewplanet.org and fedwars.net used to redirect to PTC. PTC staff found it faintly amusing to have fedwars.net email addresses.
• wrestleonline.net and wrestleonline.org still redirect to PTC. 16 bucks a year worth of sentimentality right there.
• ewplanet.com and ew-news.com could be redirected to PTC, but this has not been done out of respect to the original sites, and because nobody really wants to see them reopened by anyone other than the original owners. ewplanet.com did get a temporary redirection to ewn when they managed to lose their own domain.
• PTC was almost rebranded as ewcentral.com after GTT5. Fortunately, sanity prevailed. ewcentral.com would probably be still be pointing at PTC waiting for something to be done with it if the former owner hadn't neglected to renew it.
• PTC and WO were collectively called ew24-7. Difficulties in prizing the ew24-7.com domain name back from a shonky host prevented this model from progressing to its intended destination.
• The layout for PTC's new website was completed in 2004. Coding for the site has thus far not finished (four years and counting). The banner for the new website can be seen over the interfed closure notice that is currently up on the main page. It'll eventually be replaced with something newer, one day.
• Both PCW and PTC Radio were originally hosted on Fancast. PTC Radio is now ran using Shoutcast software from PTC's own server.
• While PTC has had several owners and senior staff members, the interfed never closed between 2001 and 2007, other than a brief reset during 2003 when ownership changed hands, to give feds a chance to leave gracefully if they didn't like the new setup.
• During its life, PTC has never been hacked - self inflicted or otherwise. The closest to a hacking was the vandalism incident by an unhappy fedhead in 2002.
• The PTC Forums were upgraded to VBulletin 3.7 on 30 April 2008.