Country Music — Every Saturday Night on Channel 11
by Paula Bosse
The warm-up for wrestling…
by Paula Bosse
I have a surprisingly deep knowledge of classic country music. And it can all be traced back to sitting with my father every Saturday night as he watched the jam-packed lineup of country music TV shows on KTVT-Channel 11.
Followed by wrestling.
Which I also have a surprisingly deep knowledge of. If only by osmosis.
Thank you, Channel 11, for providing this bonding time with my father, which I didn’t really appreciate as a child, but I do now.
(And, yes, I’m happy that my antiquarian bookseller father and Comparative Literature-degree-holding mother often took our family to the Sportatorium to see both country music package-shows and wrestling matches. You can’t say our family wasn’t well-rounded.)
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Sources & Notes
1969 ad from an odd little local publication (which probably used to belong to my father) called Country and Western — The Sound That Goes Around the World, published in DFW by PegAnn Production.
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Copyright © 2017 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
For some young men, watching the Porter Wagoner show was not about the music 🙂
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I’m pretty sure my father would agree on that whole-heartedly.
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You must do an article on Sportatorium wrestling. In mid 50s, A good guy was Pepper Gomez (the tummy claw) and abad guy that jap Duke Keomuka.
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My Father, Gene Arnold was often on a country music program from Fort Worth on KTVT circa 1970. He played with many stars of that era on that stage. Do you happen to know the probable name of that show and if there are any surviving tape archives?
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My Father, Gene Arnold was often on a country music program from Fort Worth on KTVT circa 1970. He played with many stars of that era on that stage. Do you happen to know the probable name of that show and if there are any surviving tape archives?
Possibly Panther Hall and Cowtown Jamboree?
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