MACW, also known as Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), was purchased by Turner Broadcasting System in 1988, and subsequently renamed WCW.
In March 2001, certain assets of WCW were sold by AOL Time Warner to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE).
As such these assets, including the rights to the WCW World Television Championship, inactive since April 10, 2000, were now WWF property.
Being a professional wrestling championship, it was won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.
[3] The championship was later retired on the April 10, 2000, episode of Nitro, after a storyline reboot by WCW authority figures Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo.