Impact ratings fall

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The final iMPACT! on Thursday nights averaged a 1.14 cable rating off of hours of 1.26 and 1.02, which is equal to the rating the show scored last week.

iMPACT! opened with a strong 1.31 quarter-hour and dropped consistently throughout the remainder of the broadcast with the final quarter-hour drawing a show-low 0.93 rating.

From the start of the show to its end, iMPACT! lost 30 percent of its audience. (source: www.pwtorch.com)

It " dropped consistently throughout the remainder of the broadcast with the final quarter-hour drawing a show-low 0.93 rating" because it progresively got worse and the end was really crappy.

I thought this weeks Impact was decent at best. Anderson was entertaining and most matches were decent prepared to last week but they need to do better to compete with WWE.

You don't want to see a ratings drop going into the new Monday Night War. The WILL NOT take over Monday night with numbers like that. Do you think those numbers are a sign that wrestling fans in general are not really excited to see Hogan in the ring again?

Oh definitely, I think it more has to do with the fact that they have had two poor shows leading into the Monday Night Wars. I think it is time for them to pull there fingers outta there ass to be honest.

If TNA tanks this Monday Night thing, they will never live it down and they will never get back any cred with the wrestling fans. TNA is going all in, very quickly and they must be successful.

TNA WILL Tank this monday, They already know that. You cannot expect them to get close on the first night. It takes month to establish a strong reputation. Give them at least 4 months, if nothing occurs and they are going worse then they will not live that down.

WCW were going all in for years until they topped WWF

Sykesy wrote:

TNA WILL Tank this monday, They already know that. You cannot expect them to get close on the first night. It takes month to establish a strong reputation. Give them at least 4 months, if nothing occurs and they are going worse then they will not live that down.

WCW were going all in for years until they topped WWF

I don't expect them to get anywhere close to WWE's ratings, but Spike has said that they are happy with 1.2-1.5 ratings share. If they don't hit that number within a couple of weeks, they fail.

Concrete Jesus wrote:

Sykesy wrote:

TNA WILL Tank this monday, They already know that. You cannot expect them to get close on the first night. It takes month to establish a strong reputation. Give them at least 4 months, if nothing occurs and they are going worse then they will not live that down.

WCW were going all in for years until they topped WWF

I don't expect them to get anywhere close to WWE's ratings, but Spike has said that they are happy with 1.2-1.5 ratings share. If they don't hit that number within a couple of weeks, they fail.

To be honest, 1.2 - 1.5 within two months needs to be reached. or yes ... they fail.

The open challange will bring people to watch TNA to see what the hoopla is. The problem is that the wrestling in TNA sucks big time. Great stories but once they get in the ring the show stalls. And like i said b4 moving there so close to WM is the dumbest idea ever. Especially since TNA needs to start off strong and so far the match ups aren't worth watching. But I'll record it anyway just because.

I Agree they do have some pretty solid stories right now but the actual wrestling is sloppy and they don't seem to have much communication in the ring..Hopefully they will improve and soon.