# NWA National Television Championship

The NWA National Television Championship was a secondary singles championship in the National Wrestling Alliance's Georgia Championship Wrestling territory. It started as the NWA Georgia Television Championship before becoming the National Television Championship. From 1983 to 1985, it was renamed the NWA World Television Championship, but when Jim Crockett Promotions purchased the assets of GCW from the World Wrestling Federation, the Georgia version of the NWA World Television Championship was reduced back to the NWA National Television Championship, in favor of the Crockett version. On April 21, 1985, the championship was abandoned.

## Title history

| Name | Duration |
| NWA Georgia Television Championship | 1969–1979 |
| NWA National Television Championship | 1979–1984 |
| NWA World Television Championship | 1984–1985 |
| NWA National Television Championship | 1985 |
Key :
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
| 1 | Joe Scarpa | November 22, 1969 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 42 | Scarpa defeated Assassin #2 in an 8-man tournament final to become the first champion. | |
| 2 | Nick Bockwinkel | January 3, 1970 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 63 | | |
| 3 | El Mongol | March 7, 1970 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 3 | | |
| — | Vacated | March 10, 1970 | — | — | — | — | Title held-up after the tape shows Mongol using an illegal karate blow. | |
| 4 | Nick Bockwinkel | March 20, 1970 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 2 | 22 | Bockwinkel defeated El Mongol in a rematch. | |
| 5 | Assassin #2 | April 11, 1970 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 42 | | |
| — | Vacated | May 23, 1970 | — | — | — | — | The Assassins were suspended and Assassin #2 was stripped of the title. Nick Bockwinkel and Joe Scarpa had a match for the vacant title on May 29, 1970 in Atlanta, Georgia that ended in a no-contest. | |
| 6 | Nick Bockwinkel | June 15, 1970 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 3 | 61 | Defeated Joe Scarpa. | |
| 7 | Bobby Shane | August 15, 1970 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 126 | | |
| 8 | Luke Graham | December 19, 1970 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 91 | | |
| 9 | Klondike Bill | March 20, 1971 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 203 | | |
| 10 | Big Bad John | October 9, 1971 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 6 | | |
| 11 | Ray Gunkel | October 15, 1971 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 291 | | |
| — | Deactivated | August 1, 1972 | — | — | — | — | Title deactivated when Gunkel died of heart attack after match with Ox Baker in Savannah, Georgia. | |
| 12 | Tony Atlas | February 1, 1977 | Live event | N/A | 1 | 10 | Defeated Ole Anderson in a tournament final. | |
| 13 | Abdullah the Butcher | February 11, 1977 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 49 | | |
| 14 | Thunderbolt Patterson | April 1, 1977 | Live event | N/A | 1 | 85 | | |
| 15 | French Angel | May 7, 1977 | Live event | N/A | 1 | 20 | | |
| 16 | Thunderbolt Patterson | May 27, 1977 | Live event | N/A | 2 | 66 | | |
| — | Vacated | August 1, 1977 | — | — | — | — | Title vacated when Thunderbolt Patterson lost in a loser leaves town match. | |
| 17 | Bob Armstrong | December 9, 1977 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 63 | Defeated Jacques Goulet in a tournament final. | |
| 18 | Ole Anderson | February 10, 1978 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 81 | | |
| 19 | Thunderbolt Patterson | May 2, 1978 | Live event | Macon, Georgia | 3 | 287 | | |
| 20 | Ole Anderson | February 13, 1979 | Live event | N/A | 2 | 71 | | |
| 21 | Bob Armstrong | April 25, 1979 | Live event | Columbus, Georgia | 2 | 19 | | |
| 22 | Blackjack Lanza | May 14, 1979 | Live event | Augusta, Georgia | 1 | 81 | | |
| 23 | Ray Candy | August 3, 1979 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 88 | | |
| 24 | Ernie Ladd | October 30, 1979 | Live event | N/A | 1 | 3 | | |
| 25 | Stan Hansen | November 2, 1979 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 1 | | |
| 26 | Killer Karl Kox | November 3, 1979 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 28 | | |
| 27 | Ray Candy | November 30, 1979 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 2 | 7 | | |
| 28 | Austin Idol | December 7, 1979 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 29 | Title renamed NWA National Television Championship. | |
| 29 | Steve Travis | January 5, 1980 | Live event | N/A | 1 | 7 | | |
| 30 | Austin Idol | January 12, 1980 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 2 | 15 | | |
| 31 | Kevin Sullivan | January 27, 1980 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 25 | | |
| 32 | Austin Idol | February 21, 1980 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 3 | 2 | | |
| 33 | Tommy Rich | February 23, 1980 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 71 | | |
| — | Vacated | May 4, 1980 | — | — | — | — | Rich vacated the title in order to pursue Harley Race's NWA World Heavyweight Championship. | |
| 34 | Terry Taylor | August 22, 1980 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 51 | Defeated Ken Patera and Bob Armstrong in a tournament round-robin final. | |
| 35 | Terry Funk | October 12, 1980 | Live event | Columbus, Ohio | 1 | 21 | | |
| 36 | Steve Keirn | November 2, 1980 | Live event | N/A | 1 | 27 | | |
| 37 | Kevin Sullivan | November 29, 1980 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 2 | 48 | | |
| 38 | Steve O | January 16, 1981 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 6 | | |
| 39 | Bobby Eaton | January 22, 1981 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 1 | | |
| 40 | Steve O | January 23, 1981 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 2 | 29 | | |
| 41 | Kevin Sullivan | February 21, 1981 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 3 | 8 | | |
| 42 | Steve Keirn | March 1, 1981 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 2 | 31 | | |
| — | Deactivated | April 1, 1981 | — | — | — | — | | |
| 43 | The Iron Sheik | May 28, 1983 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 50 | Defeated Ron Garvin by disqualification in a tournament final to win the reactivated title. | |
| 44 | Ron Garvin | July 17, 1983 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 112 | | |
| 45 | Jake Roberts | November 6, 1983 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | 153 | Title recognized as the NWA World Television Championship after March 1984. | |
| 46 | Ron Garvin | April 7, 1984 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 2 | 71 | | |
| 47 | Jake Roberts | June 17, 1984 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 2 | 0 | This was shown on tape delay on Georgia Championship Wrestling as part of the "NWA Superstars" series. | |
| — | Vacated | June 17, 1984 | — | Atlanta, Georgia | — | — | Immediately vacated because Roberts used a foreign object. | |
| 48 | Ron Garvin | July 1, 1984 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 3 | 63 | After the WWF purchased GCW on Black Saturday, NWA member successor promotion, Championship Wrestling from Georgia, continued to recognize Garvin as champion. | |
| 49 | Bob Roop | September 2, 1984 | Live event | N/A | 1 | 117 | | |
| 50 | Ron Garvin | December 28, 1984 | Live event | Saginaw, Michigan | 4 | 190 | | |
| 51 | Bob Roop | January 7, 1985 | Live event | N/A | 2 | 97 | In March 1985, the title reverted to the National TV title when Jim Crockett Promotions, which already had its own TV title, purchased Championship Wrestling from Georgia | |
| 51 | Ron Garvin | April 14, 1985 | Live event | Atlanta, Georgia | 5 | 7 | | |
| — | Deactivated | April 21, 1985 | — | — | — | — | Title deactivated | |

## List of combined reigns

| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
| 1 | Ron Garvin | 5 | 443 |
| 2 | Thunderbolt Patterson | 3 | 438 |
| 3 | Ray Gunkel | 1 | 291 |
| 4 | Bob Roop | 2 | 214 |
| 5 | Klondike Bill | 1 | 203 |
| 6 | Jake Roberts | 2 | 153 |
| 7 | Ole Anderson | 2 | 152 |
| 8 | Nick Bockwinkel | 3 | 146 |
| 9 | Bobby Shane | 1 | 126 |
| 10 | Ray Candy | 2 | 95 |
| 11 | Luke Graham | 1 | 91 |
| 12 | Bob Armstrong | 2 | 82 |
| 13 | Blackjack Lanza | 1 | 81 |
| 13 | Kevin Sullivan | 3 | 81 |
| 15 | Tommy Rich | 1 | 71 |
| 16 | Steve Keirn | 2 | 58 |
| 17 | Terry Taylor | 1 | 51 |
| 18 | The Iron Sheik | 1 | 50 |
| 19 | Abdullah the Butcher | 1 | 49 |
| 20 | Joe Scarpa | 1 | 42 |
| 20 | Assassin #2 | 1 | 42 |
| 21 | Austin Idol | 3 | 36 |
| 22 | Steve O | 2 | 35 |
| 23 | Killer Karl Kox | 1 | 28 |
| 24 | Terry Funk | 1 | 21 |
| 25 | French Angel | 1 | 20 |
| 26 | Tony Atlas | 1 | 10 |
| 27 | Steve Travis | 1 | 7 |
| 28 | Big Bad John | 1 | 6 |
| 29 | El Mongol | 1 | 3 |
| 29 | Ernie Ladd | 1 | 3 |
| 31 | Stan Hansen | 1 | 1 |
| 31 | Bobby Eaton | 1 | 1 |