Today we're going to play a role-playing game, are you ready? Ok.
My name is Jeff Jarrett, that's J-E-Double-F J-A-Double-R-E-Double-T. It's 2002 and with the small amount of money I have, I, along with my father Jerry Jarrett decide to create Total Non-Stop Action. First I manage to have my upstart company accepted into the NWA the historical organisation that founded professional wrestling in the United States, not only are we accepted we become their front running group laying claim to the historic NWA World Title and the NWA World Tag Team Titles. I also broker a deal with Panda Energy to finance my fledgling company, not only that but my company is able to broker another deal that gives us a weekly show on PPV charging $10 per show.
At this point our show is broadcast from the Nashville Tennesse Fairgrounds, we have an entrance ramp and some cheap lasers-lights. Nevertheless we manage to achieve enough PPV buys and high revenue so that Fox Sports Net offers us a 1 hour time slot on their television station, no more weekly PPV's, we also secure a deal with Universal Studios in Orlando Florida, allowing us to film at our new location the iMPACT Zone, this greatly raises our production values and lowers expense as we no longer need to rent out the fairgrounds.
Unfortunately this deal falls through, but a year later The Nashville Network now under the name Spike TV agrees to give us a 1 hour timeslot every thursday night to run our show TNA iMPACT. We also continue running monthly PPV's and are able to increase our overrall viewership. Not only that but we manage to sign former WWE world champion Kurt Angle and former WWE star Christian Cage. In 2006 we began running TNA house shows, which turned out to be so popular that we eventually began running international tours in 2008, including tours of the UK and Germany. We also began broadcasting in multiple countries outside of the US. Currently TNA iMPACT is broadcast in 27 countries, including Australia, India, the UK, Italy and Israel.
We still run monthly PPV's, some of which are held outside of Orlando, generally these are our bigger shows like Bound For Glory and Lockdown. We also offer merchandise on sale at TNA's official website, we have an action figure deal, have released video games and have numerous forms of apparel, posters and other accessories for our fans. We also have an on-demand TNA video-vault service that allows fans to watch previous PPV's online and we have an exclusive content deal with youtube that allows us to broadcast matches and segments from previous episodes of TNA iMPACT, Xplosion and our former weekly PPV's for free.
So thanks for listening this has been Jeff Jarrett, remember J-E-Double-F J-A-Double-R-E-Double-T.
