As I am given to understand, this Thursdays Impact is your typical pre taped affair. In contrast, the Bound for Glory go home show was presented live.
In my mind this is the incorrect way of doing things. It's been well established my now that TNA places greater importance on its TV ratings than it's PPV buys (different business model to WWE), but immaterial of what you're going after it makes seance to place the emphasis on the aftermath show over the go home one.
The go home show exists for only one reason, and that is to sell the PPV. With that in mind one might think it makes sense to place your emphasis there, but I would suggest that the go home show only sells the PPV to people who are already considering buying it, and those people are generated in the previous three weeks.
In addition, because of it's proximity to the PPV, the go home show is liable to have the least in the way of storyline development. The feuds have already been set out and it's just a case of reaffirming them. As such it matters much less if the go home show falls victim to internet spoilers.
Now in contrast lets look at the PPV aftermath show. The show directly following the PPV is far and away the one with the most selling it, usually with massive fallout from the Pay Per View. This means that if TNA want to generate a ratings spike (as live episodes have a tendency to do) then this is the week to do it.
In addition, the aftermath show (particularly in the case of this Thursday's) is the one that you absolutely do not want internet spoilers leaking out for. Right now the internet seems pretty divided on the subject of who "They" turned out to be, but in an absence of spoilers I suspect that almost everyone would turn in just the see the situation explained. Instead I imagine that a lot of the nay sayers will just read the general just of the promos in advance and make their minds up that is sucks.
People are going to queue up to say how TNA needs to just go live full time, to which I'll answer in advance that they almost certainly would if they could. TNA are clearly aware of the advantages to running live TV, and the fact that they're only doing it occasionally suggests that it's just too expensive to do on a regular basis.
That being said, my conclusion is that if TNA were going to run a live Impact to support Bound for Glory, they picked the wrong week.
Discuss. Or don't. Makes little difference really. I just didn't want to have to start doing the washing up.
In my mind this is the incorrect way of doing things. It's been well established my now that TNA places greater importance on its TV ratings than it's PPV buys (different business model to WWE), but immaterial of what you're going after it makes seance to place the emphasis on the aftermath show over the go home one.
The go home show exists for only one reason, and that is to sell the PPV. With that in mind one might think it makes sense to place your emphasis there, but I would suggest that the go home show only sells the PPV to people who are already considering buying it, and those people are generated in the previous three weeks.
In addition, because of it's proximity to the PPV, the go home show is liable to have the least in the way of storyline development. The feuds have already been set out and it's just a case of reaffirming them. As such it matters much less if the go home show falls victim to internet spoilers.
Now in contrast lets look at the PPV aftermath show. The show directly following the PPV is far and away the one with the most selling it, usually with massive fallout from the Pay Per View. This means that if TNA want to generate a ratings spike (as live episodes have a tendency to do) then this is the week to do it.
In addition, the aftermath show (particularly in the case of this Thursday's) is the one that you absolutely do not want internet spoilers leaking out for. Right now the internet seems pretty divided on the subject of who "They" turned out to be, but in an absence of spoilers I suspect that almost everyone would turn in just the see the situation explained. Instead I imagine that a lot of the nay sayers will just read the general just of the promos in advance and make their minds up that is sucks.
People are going to queue up to say how TNA needs to just go live full time, to which I'll answer in advance that they almost certainly would if they could. TNA are clearly aware of the advantages to running live TV, and the fact that they're only doing it occasionally suggests that it's just too expensive to do on a regular basis.
That being said, my conclusion is that if TNA were going to run a live Impact to support Bound for Glory, they picked the wrong week.
Discuss. Or don't. Makes little difference really. I just didn't want to have to start doing the washing up.
