Tag: POP TV

Impact moving to 10 PM Eastern on Pop TV starting later this month

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Starting later this month, Impact Wrestling will be moving to a later time slot on Pop TV.

Dave Meltzer has confirmed that — starting with the October 25 episode — Impact will begin airing at 10 p.m. Eastern time on Pop TV. The show is staying on Thursday nights but is moving back two hours from its current 8 p,m. Eastern start time. With the change, Impact will now end at midnight.

PWinsider first reported the time slot change after it was indicated on Pop TV’s schedule.

Impact’s Bound for Glory pay-per-view is taking place at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, New York on Sunday night. The first post-Bound for Glory episode will air next Thursday at the current 8 p.m. Eastern time slot (with a replay airing at 10 p.m.) before the change begins on October 25.

Impact drew its second-lowest number of the year last week, with the episode averaging 190,000 viewers. Here’s a look at Impact viewership since the company’s Slammiversary XVI PPV:

  • July 26 — 299,000 (post-Slammiversary episode)
  • August 2 — 248,000
  • August 9 — 168,000
  • August 16 — 210,000
  • August 23 — 212,000
  • August 30 — 225,000
  • September 6 — 236,000 (NFL regular season begins)
  • September 13 — 258,000
  • September 20 — 229,000
  • September 27 — 222,000
  • October 4 — 190,000

TNA Impact debut on POP TV ratings, January 8th PPV confirmed

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

TNA’s debut on Pop TV last night drew 111,000 viewers for a “Best of” show which had little going for it past Internet and social mediapromotion.

TNA and Pop TV had been pushing 1/5 as the debut of the show, built around the final four in the world title tournament.  It was only in the past week when the announcement was made that it would debut with taped programming last night in its new Tuesday at 9 p.m. slot..

The audience was barely half of the “Days of our Lives” show that did 211,000 viewers.

While the lack of publicity and fact it wasn’t a new episode means the number really can’t be taken as a strong sign of where they will end up, it is a number that points to where the TNA base audience is at this point.  Between the change of network and change of day, and TNA, with the exception of the move from late Saturday to Thursday prime time, has always taken a hit when changing days, it took take some time before TNA gets to where it will probably be.

However, the idea that they will get back to Spike levels, which Pop TV execs spoke of, doesn’t seem likely.

It has been confirmed by TNA that there will be a live PPV show on Friday, 1/8, from Bethlehem, PA.

inDemand literature had come out advertising the show, taking place three nights after the debut on Pop TV, for a show called “One Night Only Live.”

That was the name of the show that was originally planned to be taped in India during the canceled tour, as a live special in that country, and would air starting 1/8 as the One Night Only show in the U.S.

TNA Wrestling to launch on POP TV two weeks early

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

TNA will be starting earlier than expected on POP TV with its debut show coming out this Tuesday night from 9-11 p.m — the company’s regular time slot on the station.

TNA finished its Destination America run on Wednesday night, and it was originally believed that the company would not have television until their originally scheduled debut show on Tuesday, January 5th. Instead, POP TV will be picking up with the final two episodes of Impact for 2015, airing on Tuesday, December 22nd, and Tuesday, December 29th, both of which will be “Best of 2015” type shows. This week, their first hour will go head-to-head with a live Smackdown. 

The 1/5 “live” show from Bethlehem, PA, will feature the semifinals and finals of the TNA title tournament that has come down to Bobby Lashley, Eric Young, Matt Hardy and Ethan Carter III. The company is saying it’s a live show, but in the past, that has meant taping two hours before and airing it the same night.

On a Hardy note, it was reported in the new issue of the Observer that his TNA contract expires in about ten to 12 weeks.