TNA Impact replay dropped by Spike.

[mayhem]

Major news that Spike has officially dropped the TNA Impact replay. It seems that they have done this to boost the rating of the first showing of Impact. Now the only showing.

With TNA losing airtime on Spike and with the introduction of all the new TNA talent ratings are still not improving. UFC is what Spike is interested in and TNAs new 3 year deal with Spike is more flexible. With less content on Spike for TNA will ratings go up by dropping the replay or will it hurt the ratings?

 

[X]

Well this pisses me off, and all it's going to do is fuck TNA over. There's a reason that their ratings have been slumping the last few weeks. They have to compete with the NFL, college football, the primetime lineups on the networks (The Office, Survivor, Fringe, etc). People are tuning out to watch other shows, so am I. But because they air a replay on Saturday morning, I can still watch Impact each week. Now that they're getting rid of it, that's going to screw quite a few of us who prefer to watch other things on Thursday night. Sorry TNA, but I'd rather watch The Office then a Cody Deaner segment, that's just me though. Do they really think this will boost their ratings on Thursday? It won't. All it's going to do is screw more of their fans out of watching their product.

Congratulations TNA, you've made yet another idiotic decision.

 

[Enigma]

Congratulations TNA, you've made yet another idiotic decision.

It was Spike TV's decision. Besides, they can easily log on Spike.com and rewatch it online.

Last time I checked, SmackDown doesn't have a replay and it gets pre-empted by Baseball on a regular basis. I don't like the idea of dropping the replay but It won't hurt them.

I hope you know you sound like a complete TNA hater. Since Cody Deaner has been gone off TV since No Surrender and he isn't expected to be around either.

 

[X]

It was Spike TV's decision. Besides, they can easily log on Spike.com and rewatch it online.

Was it? I only skimmed the article. Bad decision by Spike then. That makes this situation make even less sense. What are they going to air on Saturday mornings that's better? Re-runs of Motor Trucker Madness or some shit? The latest episode of When Animals Attack Children?

Last time I checked, SmackDown doesn't have a replay and it gets pre-empted by Baseball on a regular basis.

In your area perhaps, all depends on what local affiliate airs the program from MyNetworkTV. I'm very disappointed by the TV deal that WWE has with Smackdown right now as well.

I don't like the idea of dropping the replay but It won't hurt them.

I think it might. Some people still aren't going to want to watch TNA if there are other things on like football or Survivor that they'd prefer to watch. By taking away the replay they've just eliminated the chances of that person becoming more interested in the product and buying the PPVs. Most people aren't going to go online and watch Impact on their computer. Doesn't make much sense to me honestly, though I think TNA's timeslot right now is a bad one to begin with. Thursday night prime time is probably the most coveted air time there is.

 

[Jimmbo420]

With TNA losing airtime on Spike and with the introduction of all the new TNA talent ratings are still not improving.

They JUST stopped re-playing iMPACT! on saturday . Alot of people probably don't even know that they aren't still replaying it on saturday yet unless they come on these kind of websites, you can't really expect results overnight.

It is an attempt to get people to watch the first run of iMPACT, as you all have pointed out. I personally think it is worth a try, and don't think that reason will effect the show much or at all, maybe even help a little. If it turns out that it is hurting the show a substantial amount, then the saturday replay will probably return.


Other options are to DVR the show, or watch it online if you are really unable to watch the show.

 

[Marty2Hotty]

yeah, the replay at 9am EST (6am PST) does like .2-.3 ratings at most anyway and most don't even know it is on at the time. Is it catering to kids that watch Saturday Morning Cartoons?

I don't know what it's going to take. I see them advertising TNA Impact during UFC and Surviving Disaster. TNA has peaked at 1.3 rating - I would like them to do much better but I cannot explain why the rating is lower than Smackdown. I think they might need another show.

I'm not sure. I guess they just have to continue putting out great shows week after week

 

[LynchCats]

I think TNA and Spike TV need to arrange to move to Wednesday nights. There is no NFL, or college football to deal with, and most of the TV shows suck on Wednesdays (I don't know of any that I watch off the top of my head).

 

[X]

I think TNA and Spike TV need to arrange to move to Wednesday nights. There is no NFL, or college football to deal with, and most of the TV shows suck on Wednesdays (I don't know of any that I watch off the top of my head).

I've been thinking the same thing for quite some time now. TNA could be doing better ratings if they didn't have so much competition on Thursday night's, I think they just kind of figured well, hey, we had Smackdown and Thunder on Thursday night's, so let's do Impact on Thursday as well. Smackdown is really the only successful Thursday night wrestling show that I can think of.

The problem with moving to Wednesday though is that's the night that Spike airs The Ultimate Fighter, and they definitely wouldn't move that to replace it with TNA. Plus the UFC usually airs their Fight Night specials on Spike on Wednesdays as well. Maybe a move to Tuesday?

 

[kgb]

Also South Park is on Wed nights on Comedy Central.

 

[Enigma]

In your area perhaps, all depends on what local affiliate airs the program from MyNetworkTV. I'm very disappointed by the TV deal that WWE has with Smackdown right now as well.

The big problem mostly is when they do manage to air SmackDown, It's not at the time they say. Last month they pre-empted SmackDown and said it would at at 11pm...It didn't air until 12 and it started during the Kane/Mysterio match which was not the beginning.

I still think TNA and Spike should move Impact to Tuesdays at 8pm. It's a earlier time, hardly any games are on during Tuesdays and It doesn't compete with ECW since Impact would have already ended.

 

[BradXXX]

I'd love it if they moved Impact to Tuesday nights. Maybe they could move the first taping after ppvs to Tuesday nights and have the Impact following ppvs be live every month?

There's absolutely nothing to watch on Tuesdays ever, and Impact being on Tuesday could only be good for TNA from where I'm sitting.

 

[Excalibur]

I don't think doing away with the Saturday Impact replay will have any effect on ratings one way or the other. In the age of Tivo and DVR's if people can't watch it Thursday night they will record it and watch it later or online as others have said.

Can't really blame Spike either, it wasn't like the replay was pulling any sort of numbers for them. They will probably just replace it with an imfomercial of some sort.

Tuesday night could work for them, Wednesday has UFC, they would get killed right now on Monday's and Fridays are death for TV ratings. How Smackdown pulls the numbers they do on Fridays on MyNetwork amazes me.

 

[ronthony717]

I don't wanna hear that bull about its competition being all the shows and other sports on other networks... Raw ECW and SmackDown all have the same excuse but their ratings stay basically the same or goes up.. And Smackdown is on fridays to make it even worse..

But besides that I like the idea of not having a replay.. Come on, seriously, why have a replay? Just tune in on the actual show.. Isn't that the point of having the time slot bor even the show itself? I don't catch it a lot but I hate the idea of shows constently having replays.. So good for tna to have just one.. So now if people want to watch it more ratings will show for the only airing and then they can add what ever shows they want..

 

[ABMorales787]

Ahhh great, first I cant see Entertainment Championship Wrestling (I seem to like calling it like that) cause Directv doesn't have that channel, then I have to sit through Smackdown in Spanish (I miss JR's voice), Superstars is on a channel that Directv doesnt have(again), and now they take out the Impact replays(I have to wake up at 5 on weekdays). Yes world, I'm an unlucky wrestling fan. This idea will not work, Impact competes with heavy prime time competition (with I cant see either), has little support from their network and now they cut off some off their airtime. I'm almost sure Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweight's replays are going to air in that slot. Why did TNA resign with a network that doesn't support them, have they learned nothing from what Paul Heyman went through there, eliminating the replays, that's not gonna raise the ratings, like someone above me said, lots of people didn't know there were replays, so hows eliminating them gonna bring them up, if they wanna raise the ratings, they gotta advertise and by that, I don't mean sneak in to a WWE event and hand out fliers, I mean WWE style shove down your throat commercials, come on, use UFC, plug commercials, let us know that TNA Wrestling is not myth. Advertisement, that equals ratings, not eliminating a show no one(except me) watches.


Side Note: JR.... I Miss you... Please help me...

 

[ronthony717]

Well think replays get half or close to a 1.0 so if all those viewers go over to thursdays then ull see Impact getting close to a smackdown rating.. Yeah they need advertisements and yeah spike doesn't push it down our throats like wwe has and is but replays is the first step.. Get rid of them so I agree wit the elimination of replays

 

[X]

Well think replays get half or close to a 1.0 so

...Uhh, what? No it doesn't, it doesn't even get close to a 1.0, ever. It peaks at around a 0.3, and that's if they're lucky.

all those viewers go over to thursdays then ull see Impact getting close to a smackdown rating..

No, you really won't. At all. Even if that 0.3 moved to Thursdays (which is doubtful to happen in the first place), that would give them around a 1.3-1.4. Which would still be a good point below what Smackdown averages. So no, it wouldn't be close.

 

[SavageTaker]

I don’t care who made the decision to drop Impact replays, I still think it’s a stupid move. Right now, TNA has way too much competition and to be honest, most people would probably prefer watching the other shows knowing that they could catch Impact later. But now that they aren’t going to air anymore replays, it probably isn’t going to be a good thing for them unless the majority of the people who watched the replay had already seen Impact when it originally aired.

Personally, I think it’s a stupid move because there are times I miss Impact because either there’s another show on that is better or because I fall asleep early. I liked the idea of me still being able to watch the show in its entirety just a couple of days later. But now if I miss it then it means I missed it and probably won’t be watching that episode even if it’s uploaded to YouTube. I just don’t like the idea and hopefully in the future they decide to put air replays of Impact again.

 

[CMCoke42381]

xfear is right this is bullsh*t, TNA had a fan friendly thing going for them by having a replay of Impact unlike WWE who only has replays of sunday night heat oops I mean Superstars, even though their mostly mid-carders so should it even be called Superstars? But it seems like since JJ has left and Dixie Carter has full control things have been slipping. Thia wont have any effect on me watching Impact though.

 

[Jack-Hammer]

Personally, I think it was something of a foolish move on Spike's part. As of right now, TNA has too much competition on Thursday nights and, as we've seen, it's been cutting into Impact's ratings the past 5 or 6 weeks. The only show they've had in the past 6 weeks that met their 1.2 average was the week before last. Normally, a loss of a few tenths of a point isn't necessarily a big deal but TNA's audience isn't exactly huge so those tenths of a point might be more important than they might be for a lot of other shows.

I think this could hurt TNA to some degree because, quite frankly, there are other shows on right now that I prefer to watch than Impact. Saturday mornings, I could wake up and watch the replay if I wanted to and know what was going on. Now, there have been a few instances in which the replay has done more than a 0.5 rating and it's been recently I think but, at any rate, I think Spike is hoping that those viewers that watch the replay are primarily ones that don't watch the show on Thursdays and will tune in, thus increasing the rating. Right now though, I'd rather watch It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

 

[Christian Battlez]

Ahhh great, first I cant see Entertainment Championship Wrestling (I seem to like calling it like that) cause Directv doesn't have that channel, then I have to sit through Smackdown in Spanish (I miss JR's voice), Superstars is on a channel that Directv doesnt have(again), and now they take out the Impact replays(I have to wake up at 5 on weekdays). Yes world, I'm an unlucky wrestling fan. This idea will not work, Impact competes with heavy prime time competition (with I cant see either), has little support from their network and now they cut off some off their airtime. I'm almost sure Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweight's replays are going to air in that slot. Why did TNA resign with a network that doesn't support them, have they learned nothing from what Paul Heyman went through there, eliminating the replays, that's not gonna raise the ratings, like someone above me said, lots of people didn't know there were replays, so hows eliminating them gonna bring them up, if they wanna raise the ratings, they gotta advertise and by that, I don't mean sneak in to a WWE event and hand out fliers, I mean WWE style shove down your throat commercials, come on, use UFC, plug commercials, let us know that TNA Wrestling is not myth. Advertisement, that equals ratings, not eliminating a show no one(except me) watches.


Side Note: JR.... I Miss you... Please help me...

Superstars is on WGN which Directv does carry its channel 307. There is a replay at 11 pm on Thursdays and another on at 7 pm on sundays as well. I don't personally like TNA dropping the replay but it won't hurt anything. If people care enough to watch Impact they will watch it on Thursday or find another vessel to watch it. Spoiling them by telling the fans not to watch the first airing because they can catch the replay won't improve ratings. The replay did nothing for Spike and half the time they took it off anyway or moved it to 2 am Friday morning.Not a big deal for Spike or TNA. TNA loyalists will just have to watch on Thursdays or tape it.

 

[X]

I don't personally like TNA dropping the replay but it won't hurt anything. If people care enough to watch Impact they will watch it on Thursday or find another vessel to watch it.

That's kind of my point though; what about those fans that don't consider TNA to be their highest viewing priority? Is it better to have someone somewhat interested in your product, or not interested at all? The more time TNA have on television, the more chances they have to introduce new viewers to their product. By removing this replay, they've just gotten rid of that possibility. I don't think it'll be a big deal in terms of ratings or popularity for TNA, but taking away the replay definitely hurts them more than it helps them.

 

[mayhem]

Well last weeks final replay got a 0.2 rating so if Spike remove TNA content from their channel e.g 2 TNA shows on Spike to 1 in effect this could loosen the seriousness Spike have for showing TNA on their channel and what is a 0.2 rating anyway. Spike should have kept the replay.