Was the real reason TNA moved to Monday this week because of College Football?

[rko57]

I just realized that normally TNA would be on tonight, but it's not, and it makes me start to wonder if it's because of the BCS National Championship. Yes they went head-to-head with RAW, yes they brought in a lot of new talent, and yes they went head-to-head with the Fiesta Bowl, but none of these are the National Championship. The National Championship brings in HUGE ratings every single year and draws millions away from their normal routine TV shows, even if they are re-runs. Did TNA move iMPACT! to 1-4-10 because of the National Championship, and then decide to make it a big day and bring all these people since they were going head-to-head with RAW and try to create the new Monday Night Wars? Or is it all just a coincidence that they moved iMPACT! the same week as the National Championship? Your thoughts please!!!

 

[NSL]

I'm pretty sure that the BCS Championship was not the reason they changed timeslots this week.

They ended up going against a good bowl game anyway, and as everyone knows, they went up against RAW. I think the opportunity to go head-to-head with RAW was the real reason.

Why be scared of one college football game, when you'd be facing one and a huge wrestling program?

 

[rko57]

The reason to be scared is because the National Championship is known to draw games above 10.0 every single season. In fact, the lowest rating ever is a 13.7 for a National Championship game while RAW only gets around 3.8 or so. And this year the game just happens to fall on a Thursday night. Im thinking the TNA rating would be drastically low if it would have stayed on thursday this week

 

[CDR]

I had an idea similar to this but not exactly the same. My idea was "Did TNA put their show on Monday because of the Fiesta Bowl?" If they knew the game would draw big ratings, they also knew that didn't leave the full audience for Raw and TNA to get. So, perhaps with that in mind, they put Impact on Monday, which would most likely give them lower ratings, however, they might have a closer rating to Raw. It's a possibilty.

But to answer your question, I doubt that's the reason. Because, if they wanted the absolute biggest rating they could get, they wouldn't wanna go up against a BCS game and Raw. They put Impact on Monday to go head-to-head with Raw. That's it.

 

[Big Ol' Buckta AIDS]

I'm pretty sure that the BCS Championship was not the reason they changed timeslots this week.

They ended up going against a good bowl game anyway, and as everyone knows, they went up against RAW. I think the opportunity to go head-to-head with RAW was the real reason.

Why be scared of one college football game, when you'd be facing one and a huge wrestling program?

HAHAHA are you kidding?? One football game? Try the national Title game. This game will get bigger ratings than the this past mondays Raw and TNA COMBINED, times two. Of course they changed to it so they wouldn't have have to deal with the National title game. Why do you think that Vince scheduled the Royal Rumble on the 31st of Jan? Thats the bye week between the conference championship games and the Superbowl. The NFL is the most watched program on tv in America. WWE and TNA know they cant hold a candle to NFL when it comes to the ratings, and because of that they have to schedule around them.

 

[CDR]

HAHAHA are you kidding?? One football game? Try the national Title game. This game will get bigger ratings than the this past mondays Raw and TNA COMBINED, times two. Of course they changed to it so they wouldn't have have to deal with the National title game. Why do you think that Vince scheduled the Royal Rumble on the 31st of Jan? Thats the bye week between the conference championship games and the Superbowl. The NFL is the most watched program on tv in America. WWE and TNA know they cant hold a candle to NFL when it comes to the ratings, and because of that they have to schedule around them.

NFL ratings > BCS ratings

If TNA was hell-bent on doing their show on a Thursday, they most likely would've done it on a Thursday. Next one or this one, I don't know. But, thinking they moved because of college football is out thinking yourself. It had to be WWE. Because this game and the other game will bring in similar ratings, gurantee it.

 

[Big Ol' Buckta AIDS]

NFL ratings > BCS ratings

If TNA was hell-bent on doing their show on a Thursday, they most likely would've done it on a Thursday. Next one or this one, I don't know. But, thinking they moved because of college football is out thinking yourself. It had to be WWE. Because this game and the other game will bring in similar ratings, gurantee it.

any football game on TV > WWE/TNA. (Ratings wise)

It was absoluty not just the WWE. Had TNA gone ahead and went on thursday they would have been totally wrecked. Totally. This worked out perfectly for TNA. We all know hogan would want to go on mondays again. So why not go on a monday in which you know the ratings would have been low otherwise? Remember TNA stated it was going live on the 4th a long time ago. Even before Bret Hart was signed with the E. That means they knew the repercussions of going against The BCS title game for a long time.

 

[CDR]

any football game on TV > WWE/TNA. (Ratings wise)

It was absoluty not just the WWE. Had TNA gone ahead and went on thursday they would have been totally wrecked. Totally. This worked out perfectly for TNA. We all know hogan would want to go on mondays again. So why not go on a monday in which you know the ratings would have been low otherwise? Remember TNA stated it was going live on the 4th a long time ago. Even before Bret Hart was signed with the E. That means they knew the repercussions of going against The BCS title game for a long time.

True, their ratings would've been bad, but if they left the show on Thursday, they wouldn't've made that particular show have the importance it did on Monday. Get what I'm saying? The only reason they put the show on Monday was to go against Raw because of the stacked show they had. They wouldn't've chosen to go head-to-head for just a regular show. This was gonna be big, so they planned a big show. Also, they planned the big show for a Monday specifically for Raw to see how they'd do compared to them. If Raw was generally on Thursdays and Impact was on Monday, they still would've moved to Thursday with the BCS game going on. I'm pretty sure.

 

[NSL]

So everyone is discounting the idea of TNA wanting to start 2010 with a head-to-head against the WWE? They couldn't have done it last week, no one would have watched. They couldn't have done it next week, because that's too close to the pay-per-view.

January 4th was the prime date for TNA to take the fight to WWE. They could have done it whenever they wanted, but they chose to do it then. Stop reading so much into it.

 

[Big Ol' Buckta AIDS]

True, their ratings would've been bad, but if they left the show on Thursday, they wouldn't've made that particular show have the importance it did on Monday. Get what I'm saying? The only reason they put the show on Monday was to go against Raw because of the stacked show they had. They wouldn't've chosen to go head-to-head for just a regular show. This was gonna be big, so they planned a big show. Also, they planned the big show for a Monday specifically for Raw to see how they'd do compared to them. If Raw was generally on Thursdays and Impact was on Monday, they still would've moved to Thursday with the BCS game going on. I'm pretty sure.

......Well if you read what that post actually said you would see thats what I am saying as well. TNA was going to put that particular show on a Monday regardless. It just so happened that they relized that this would be a good Monday to do it because of the Title game.

 

[justinept]

Yes. The National Title is a big game. But to think that TNA switched around their programming to avoid head-to-head battle with the Title game is absurd.

The title game has been held on a Monday three times - 1999, 2000 and 2007. Not only was Monday Night Raw broadcast each of those nights, but Nitro was also broadcast in '99 and 2000 against the National Title Game.

 

[Big Ol' Buckta AIDS]

Yes. The National Title is a big game. But to think that TNA switched around their programming to avoid head-to-head battle with the Title game is absurd.

The title game has been held on a Monday three times - 1999, 2000 and 2007. Not only was Monday Night Raw broadcast each of those nights, but Nitro was also broadcast in '99 and 2000 against the National Title Game.

Thats three instances of Two billion dollars companies that can hold their own.
we are talking about TNA who has never reached a 2.0. To suggest it wasn't because of the title game is absurd.

 

[CDR]

......Well if you read what that post actually said you would see thats what I am saying as well. TNA was going to put that particular show on a Monday regardless. It just so happened that they relized that this would be a good Monday to do it because of the Title game.

But my point is that why would they choose a college football game that's just barely a peg lower than the other one? If they didn't wanna go against college football, they would've done it next Monday. They chose this Monday because it just had perfect timing. New year and distance from a pay-per-view, as NSL said.

 

[Big Ol' Buckta AIDS]

But my point is that why would they choose a college football game that's just barely a peg lower than the other one? If they didn't wanna go against college football, they would've done it next Monday. They chose this Monday because it just had perfect timing. New year and distance from a pay-per-view, as NSL said.

hmm. Don't know what you mean by "peg lower than the other one" this is the biggest college football game of the year.... but yeah I see what your saying with it being a new year and everything, but I don't think it's as big of a deal as your making it. I think the title game being on right now is the bigger reason. Not the only reason, but the definatly the biggest.

 

[CDR]

hmm. Don't know what you mean by "peg lower than the other one" this is the biggest college football game of the year.... but yeah I see what your saying with it being a new year and everything, but I don't think it's as big of a deal as your making it. I think the title game being on right now is the bigger reason. Not the only reason, but the definatly the biggest.

What I mean is that this game tonight features two undefeated teams and the title of "national championship game" stuck on it. The game on Monday also featured two undefeated teams, however, it was not for a national championship. It was the same thing, with a different title, basically.

 

[CDR]

definatly not a peg lower than the other one. but w/e you wanna think

A peg lower because of the title. So many people are watching this game just because it's the national championship game. This game will get higher ratings because of it's title, even though on paper they should be even. Plus, the two other teams were way less popular. And the hype for this game was WAY more than the other game.

 

[justinept]

Thats three instances of Two billion dollars companies that can hold their own.
we are talking about TNA who has never reached a 2.0. To suggest it wasn't because of the title game is absurd.

So TNA - who has never reached a 2.0 - had what to lose by going against the National Title game? Their ratings barely register anyway. The billion dollar entities that actually spend money on production have much more reason to worry about losing viewers for one night.

 

[CuddleBuns84]

Remember when Brett Farve came to play Green Bay for the first time this year. It was on a Monday night, and guess what. Raw didn't move their show to avoid the ratings, they just had a football themed night instead. Why would TNA be afraid of having low ratings against a National Championship game? They went against Raw, because they wanted to get into the heavy wrestling market knuckleheads. Not to avoid the national title game that is being played. A 1.5 is their average rating, that won't change because of the game. Not also that, but this has been planned for 2 plus months! The first monday of the new year was always a big deal for the Monday Night Wars, and this was a company trying to show they can compete. The theory of this is amazing. I bet you think the moon landing never happen as well?

 

[rko57]

The National Title date has been planned for over a year, a lot longer then the plan for TNA of 2 months. Im not saying that TNA would have planned a big show for today if they didnt go head-to-head RAW, but their ratings would have been in the 0.0's. They would have not even reached a 1.0, which would have really sucked for them. TNA is not the WWE, and not even where WCW ratings wise, and there is no way that could have taken a bad shot like that facing the Title Game.

 

[wolvdog316]

I'm no fan of TNA but come on. Who would go "We are scared of football so lets move to......MONDAY so Vince can beat us"

That had NOTHING to do with Football. If they was that worried they would have moved to Wednesday. Come on now

 

[Big Ol' Buckta AIDS]

I'm no fan of TNA but come on. Who would go "We are scared of football so lets move to......MONDAY so Vince can beat us"

That had NOTHING to do with Football. If they was that worried they would have moved to Wednesday. Come on now

TNA knew it was going to go head to head with RAW eventually. So why not try it out and go head to head during a week where they would have lost viewers to the BCS Title game?

 

[MisterRob]

I definitely think TNA and Spike wanted to go head to head with RAW on Monday. But I also don't think that was the only reason, it was likely a combination of a lot of different things, and College Football on Thursday could've been added incentive. But I do think they wanted to compete on Monday.

 

[Maikeru_1979]

i think they showed monday night cause they wanted to get a reading on how they would do going head to head with raw. and seeing as how the ratings actually went up i wouldn't be surprised if they did it once every couple months like they want to throughout the year then go to mondays full time next january.

Why do you think that Vince scheduled the Royal Rumble on the 31st of Jan? Thats the bye week between the conference championship games and the Superbowl. The NFL is the most watched program on tv in America. WWE and TNA know they cant hold a candle to NFL when it comes to the ratings, and because of that they have to schedule around them.

ahh there is no off week between the AFC/NFC title games and the superbowl this year. the pro bowl is being played on January 31st this year.

 

[Big Ol' Buckta AIDS]

i think they showed monday night cause they wanted to get a reading on how they would do going head to head with raw. and seeing as how the ratings actually went up i wouldn't be surprised if they did it once every couple months like they want to throughout the year then go to mondays full time next january.





ahh there is no off week between the AFC/NFC title games and the superbowl this year. the pro bowl is being played on January 31st this year.

The Pro Bowl is a freakin exhibition game. Thats only week WWE would not have lost substantial buys because of football (Compared to the other weeks). I guarantee that Genesis buys will suffer because it is smack in the middle of the play off schedule

 

[rko57]

Even though the probowl is being played on the 31st, isnt the game during the day? And also if it is at night, who's going to actually watch it? Not a lot of people actually watch the pro bowl.