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| align="center" colspan=3 bgcolor="#A9BCF5" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; font-size:135%;" |'''''WCW Thunder''''' 
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="3" |
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''Created by'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |[[Ted Turner]] [[Eric Bischoff]]
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''Directed by'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |[[Craig Leathers]]
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''Starring'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |See [[List of World Championship Wrestling Alumni|World Championship Wrestling alumni]]
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''Opening theme'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |"Storm" by Jimmy Hart & Howard Helm (January 8, 1998-February 9, 2000) [[God Hates Us All|"Here Comes the Pain" (instrumental)]] by [[Slayer]] (February 16, 2000–March 21, 2001)
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''Country of origin'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |United States
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''{{tooltip|No.|Number}} of episodes'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |146
|- valign="top"
| bgcolor="#A9BCF5" align="center" colspan="3" |'''Production'''
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''Camera setup'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |[[Multiple-Camera Setup|Multicamera setup]]
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''Running time'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |120 minutes
|- valign="top"
| bgcolor=#A9BCF5 align="center" colspan="3" |'''Broadcast'''
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''Original channel'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |[[TBS (U.S. TV Channel)|TBS]]
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''Picture format'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |[[480i]] ([[Standard-Definition Television|SDTV]])
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''Original run'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |January 8, 1998 – March 21, 2001
|- valign="top"
| bgcolor=#A9BCF5 align="center" colspan="3" |'''Chronology'''
|- valign="top"
| style="text-align: left;"|'''Related shows'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" |''[[WCW Monday Night Nitro|WCW Monday Nitro]]''
|- valign="top"
| bgcolor=#A9BCF5 align="center" colspan="3" |'''Website'''
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'''''WCW Thunder''''' is a [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestling]] [[Television Program|show]] that was produced by [[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW) which aired on [[TBS (TV Network)|TBS]] from January 8, 1998 to March 21, 2001.

The huge popularity of WCW in 1996 and 1997 allowed for the creation of a new show, which became WCW Thunder. Thunder was taped on Tuesday nights and then aired on Thursday, a change for WCW as Bischoff was very keen on its primary show ''[[WCW Monday Nitro]]'' being aired live every week (as opposed to rival [[IWE Raw|IWF Raw is War]], which, at the time, was live every other week). The rights to ''Thunder'' now belong to IWE.

The first 97 episodes of ''WCW Thunder'' are available to stream on the [[IWE Network]].

==History==

===Creation===

===Advertisement===
TV commercials for ''Thunder'' featured top ring talents such as [[Hulk Hogan]] saying ''"Observe this, brother!"'' and [[Marc Beltran|The Giant]] with ''"This forecast definitely calls for pain!"''

===Final broadcast===

===2000–2001===

==Reception==

==Color scheme==
''Thunder'' utilized a primarily blue color scheme for its production graphics and ring designs, a design which was later emulated by ''SmackDown!'' and ''[[Impact Wrestling (TV Series)|Impact Wrestling]]'', as compared to the primarily red designs of the Monday Night shows, ''[[IWE Monday Night Raw|Raw]]'' and ''Nitro''.

==On-air personalities==

===Commentary teams===
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!style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"| Commentators
!style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"| Dates
|-
|[[Tony Schiavone]], [[Bobby Heenan]] and [[Lee Marshall (announcer)|Lee Marshall]]
|January 8, 1998 January 22, 1998 – April 9, 1998 May 21, 1998 – November 12, 1998 December 17, 1998
|-
|Mike Tenay, Bobby Heenan and Lee Marshall
|January 15, 1998
|-
|Tony Schiavone, Bobby Heenan, Mike Tenay and Lee Marshall
|April 16, 1998 – May 14, 1998
|-
|Tony Schiavone, [[Larry Zbyszko]] and [[Mike Tenay]]
|November 19, 1998
|-
|Mike Tenay and Larry Zbyszko
|April 7, 1999 – October 7, 1999
|-
|Mike Tenay, [[Kevin Nash]] and Larry Zbyszko
|October 14, 1999
|-
|Scott Hudson and Larry Zbyszko
|October 21, 1999 – December 2, 1999
|-
|Mike Tenay and [[Anibal Mike  Henderson-Hernandez |Juventud Guerrera]]
|December 9, 1999
|-
|Mike Tenay, Scott Hudson and Juventud Guerrera
|December 16, 1999
|-
|Tony Schiavone, Scott Hudson and Mike Tenay
|December 23, 1999 – February 2, 2000
|-
|Mike Tenay and Bobby Heenan
|February 9, 2000 – March 29, 2000
|-
|Tony Schiavone, Bobby Heenan and Mike Tenay
|December 3, 1998 – December 10, 1998 January 7, 1999 – April 1, 1999 April 12, 2000 – July 19, 2000
|-
|Tony Schiavone, [[Mark Madden]] and Mike Tenay
|July 26, 2000 November 1, 2000 November 29, 2000 – December 6, 2000
|-
|Tony Schiavone, [[Jeremy Borash]] and Mike Tenay
|September 20, 2000
|-
|Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay and [[Jason Espada|Konnan]]
|December 13, 2000
|-
|Tony Schiavone, Mike Tenay and [[Robert Layne|Stevie Ray]]
|August 2, 2000 – September 13, 2000 September 27, 2000 – October 25, 2000 November 8, 2000 – November 22, 2000 December 6, 2000 December 20, 2000 – January 10, 2001
|-
|Tony Schiavone and Mike Tenay
|January 17, 2001 – March 21, 2001
|}

===Ring announcers===
*[[David Penzer]]
*Pamela Paulshock

==References==

==External links==

{{WCW Programs}}
{{TBSNetwork Shows}}

WCW Thursday Night Thunder - Revision history

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