1989 was the year wrestling in the States was deregulated. They wanted wrestling deregulated in New Jersey so went to court and said it was an exhibition.

Well I suppose that's two different things when you no longer knew it was fake and when it was officially announced as not being a real sport.
I don't think in this country it has ever been officially announced as such, although Mick McManus on a TV show referred to it as sports entertainment.

Those dates mentioned are when the business was honestly exposed as not being a sport.

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After Montreal was probably the first time it was pretty much stated on the actual wrestling show that wrestling wasn't "real." Realistically though, pretty much everyone knew, deep down, from probably the '20s. When Vince went national, he was a lot more open about things in public, though obviously still kept most things quiet and never broke kayfabe on the air.

The first shoot interview is generally agreed to be "Looking For Mr. Gilbert" which Bob Barnett did with Eddie Gilbert in around 1993-ish. There weren't a lot more until Feinstein went crazy with them around the time he stopped being able to make a fortune with ECW tapes.