TNA Announces New TV Home For Impact Wrestling, Full Details

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Source: pwinsider.com

TNA Wrestling officially announced today that Impact Wrestling would be moving to POP TV on Tuesday nights. The series will debut on POP TV on 1/5/16.

The announcement was made via a Youtube video that was released upon the end of a countdown clock that the company quietly placed on their website and on the social media of a number of executives.

The video can be seen below:

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POP TV will become the fourth home for the Impact Wrestling series in the United States. The series, then one hour in length, debuted in June 2004 on FOX Sports after the promotion dropped it's initial business plan of weekly Wednesday night PPV events. Impact debuted on SpikeTV in October 2005 and went from a late night weekend event to a two hour primetime series, ending in December 2014.

After TNA and Spike parted ways, Impact debuted in January 2015 on Destination America with TNA President Dixie Carter at the time presenting the move as something that would allow the promotion to grow beyond just having a two hour TV series. While the partnership initially saw additional programming for TNA, within months that had withered away and TNA ended up being odd man out on a secondary network that building around supernatural and cryptozoological mystery programming.

The move will be an immediate positive one for the series as POP TV is available in 75,255,000 homes via cable and satellite providers, far more then Destination America. DA is available in 57,238,000 homes via the same providers but in many cases was on secondary and paid tiers.

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Big news.

Also, maybe this move will make it so that my DVR will actually record Impact now.

[cero2k]

Big news.

Also, maybe this move will make it so that my DVR will actually record Impact now.

i've never heard of that network, but the fact that is far widely available than DA makes me happy

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Soooo... MVP made the following VERY interesting Tweet:

[cero2k]

Soooo... MVP made the following VERY interesting Tweet:

TNA = ON TV
MVP = NOT ON TV

[Big Red Machine]

Soooo... MVP made the following VERY interesting Tweet:

TNA = ON TV
MVP = NOT ON TV

MVP= not losing money
TNA= losing money. And that's his point. If they are now PAYING for airtime, then not only are they not making any money from right's fees, but they are actually losing money in the hopes of getting exposure... except that exposure doesn't translate to any revenue if you're not running house shows or PPVs.

[cero2k]

Soooo... MVP made the following VERY interesting Tweet:

TNA = ON TV
MVP = NOT ON TV

MVP= not losing money
TNA= losing money. And that's his point. If they are now PAYING for airtime, then not only are they not making any money from right's fees, but they are actually losing money in the hopes of getting exposure... except that exposure doesn't translate to any revenue if you're not running house shows or PPVs.

there are some news sites reporting that they're not paying for air time.

[Big Red Machine]

TNA = ON TV
MVP = NOT ON TV

MVP= not losing money
TNA= losing money. And that's his point. If they are now PAYING for airtime, then not only are they not making any money from right's fees, but they are actually losing money in the hopes of getting exposure... except that exposure doesn't translate to any revenue if you're not running house shows or PPVs.

there are some news sites reporting that they're not paying for air time.

Even if they're just doing it in exchange for air time like ROH and Destination America, the exposure still doesn't help unless you're running house shows and PPVs.

[cero2k]

Even if they're just doing it in exchange for air time like ROH and Destination America, the exposure still doesn't help unless you're running house shows and PPVs.

they get paid by networks all over the world, and they do run live shows and PPV, just not right now, but they're doing india and uk

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Even if they're just doing it in exchange for air time like ROH and Destination America, the exposure still doesn't help unless you're running house shows and PPVs.

they get paid by networks all over the world, and they do run live shows and PPV, just not right now, but they're doing india and uk

And is that pay enough to keep supporting the company? You don't make money off of live events unless you're drawing (remember that you need to pay both your talent and the building), and TNA has been drawing absolutely pathetic numbers. They have been running PPVs, but doing an absolutely pathetic job of promoting them, and only running 2-4 a year.

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And is that pay enough to keep supporting the company? You don't make money off of live events unless you're drawing (remember that you need to pay both your talent and the building), and TNA has been drawing absolutely pathetic numbers. They have been running PPVs, but doing an absolutely pathetic job of promoting them, and only running 2-4 a year.

well, it may be, because they don't spend extra money to get those shows overseas, but they earn from them. running uk and india will likely bring in some good money. They've started just doing pay per appearance so that should ease on a lot of spending. I can totally believe they may be making some profit