With recent reports that TNA has to move to another channel again for the second year(from Spike TV to Destination America). Why stay on cable if there is other options when the number of cord cutters increase (I.e. ION or Bounce TV) that TNA can get two hours a week even a third hour for Xplosion. Ion and/or Bounce can forefit two hours a week at least for TNA to fill airtime. Imagine TNA on Bounce on Saturdays 6-8pm et then afterwards show a hour of hughleys reruns and the brown sugar Saturday night movie block(9pm-3am) Likewise for ION they can take a break of airing criminal minds or law and order: CI from 11am-2am et/pt
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TNA Impact Wrestling moving stations again.
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purpledevil
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If it weren't enough to be a radiogeek, now we're talking pro wrestling...er, um Sports Entertainment on radiodiscussions?
Fair enough, I'll surprise a few people around here. Like most older folks from the south, the purple one knows a little something about 'rasslin.
TVCOOL, are you serious? Moving TNA, a very much failing entity, to Bounce would be disastrous. Especially Dixie's brand of 'rasslin. Ion, if you'll remember, aired WWE Main Event on Wednesday nights at 7 (8 east). Surrounded by endless dramas like Criminal Minds, Blue Bloods, Ghost Whisperer and such, it failed. Ion is not the right demographic for WWE, much less TNA.
Is it actually official that TNA is being cancelled by Discovery's Destination America yet? The latest story I read was rampant with speculation of its impending doom, especially once Ring of Honor was announced to directly precede Impact, but has it been made official? Hate to be the bearer of bad news, 'rasslin fans, but the opportunities for TNA are quickly drying up. They are teaming up with overseas promotions and holding joint cards on the other side of the world, but is there any real demand for a second tier 'rasslin promotion here in the States? It says a lot about your promotion when the guy that founded it, walks away from it and forms his own 'rasslin promotion to rival it, even though he's still a minority investor in it.
I mean, wow. You've lost top tier talent in droves (oh, how I miss Talia Madison), you gave the keys to the TNA kingdom to the very 3 guys that destroyed the long established Jim Crockett/Ted Turner World Championship Wrestling promotion (Hogan, Bischoff, Russo) and you've completely made the two things that set you apart from the WWE's Sports Entertainment fiasco an afterthought. The X division put TNA on the map. What did they do? Treated it like WCW did the cruiserweights toward the end of its run. Make them look insignificant, and people begin to not care. Secondly, the TV Title. A championship that's supposed to be defending every week on TV. What did they do? Retired it. Why? It deflates the talent, as they've got less opportunities to challenge for gold, and the fans lose, because there are less meaningful championship matches to see.
You can only make so many big mistakes before it catches up to you. Carter's money has kept TNA going to this point, even as the company is pretty deep in the red, but how long will they go before the well runs dry and they cut their losses? Without TV carriage here in the U.S. the future doesn't look real bright for Total Non-Stop Action.
Man, what I'd give to see Dusty Rhodes give one more bionic elbow...gyrations and all, "ith yew weeeeeyul". God bless you, Dusty. You were always my favorite, even when McMahon polkadotted you up.
Fair enough, I'll surprise a few people around here. Like most older folks from the south, the purple one knows a little something about 'rasslin.
TVCOOL, are you serious? Moving TNA, a very much failing entity, to Bounce would be disastrous. Especially Dixie's brand of 'rasslin. Ion, if you'll remember, aired WWE Main Event on Wednesday nights at 7 (8 east). Surrounded by endless dramas like Criminal Minds, Blue Bloods, Ghost Whisperer and such, it failed. Ion is not the right demographic for WWE, much less TNA.
Is it actually official that TNA is being cancelled by Discovery's Destination America yet? The latest story I read was rampant with speculation of its impending doom, especially once Ring of Honor was announced to directly precede Impact, but has it been made official? Hate to be the bearer of bad news, 'rasslin fans, but the opportunities for TNA are quickly drying up. They are teaming up with overseas promotions and holding joint cards on the other side of the world, but is there any real demand for a second tier 'rasslin promotion here in the States? It says a lot about your promotion when the guy that founded it, walks away from it and forms his own 'rasslin promotion to rival it, even though he's still a minority investor in it.
I mean, wow. You've lost top tier talent in droves (oh, how I miss Talia Madison), you gave the keys to the TNA kingdom to the very 3 guys that destroyed the long established Jim Crockett/Ted Turner World Championship Wrestling promotion (Hogan, Bischoff, Russo) and you've completely made the two things that set you apart from the WWE's Sports Entertainment fiasco an afterthought. The X division put TNA on the map. What did they do? Treated it like WCW did the cruiserweights toward the end of its run. Make them look insignificant, and people begin to not care. Secondly, the TV Title. A championship that's supposed to be defending every week on TV. What did they do? Retired it. Why? It deflates the talent, as they've got less opportunities to challenge for gold, and the fans lose, because there are less meaningful championship matches to see.
You can only make so many big mistakes before it catches up to you. Carter's money has kept TNA going to this point, even as the company is pretty deep in the red, but how long will they go before the well runs dry and they cut their losses? Without TV carriage here in the U.S. the future doesn't look real bright for Total Non-Stop Action.
Man, what I'd give to see Dusty Rhodes give one more bionic elbow...gyrations and all, "ith yew weeeeeyul". God bless you, Dusty. You were always my favorite, even when McMahon polkadotted you up.
Purpledevil does have a point about TNA...for one, I don't see either Bounce or Ion going after TNA (or Impact Wrestling, or whatever the hell they're calling themselves this month). I haven't watched an episode of Impact in over a year, and other than listening to podcasts that cover pro wrestling, I don't know much of what's going, other them being on death's door. The only networks I could see taking on Dixie Carter and what's left of that company is AXS TV (which ironically used to air Ring of Honor in the past), MAV TV, RFD TV, or even WGN America. Bounce is doing pretty well with their programming (and just recently beat BET in the ratings), and Ion is quite content with the endless reruns of procedural dramas.
DA released a memo, a few months after TNA started airing, that stated that they would not be renewing TNA's contract and that it would end after September. ROH's contract end in December.
As for going to Bounce, I'd rather see the infamous all black wrestling fed from Texas on that network, even the reruns, if they are out of business.
Guess we'll have to (as the old saying goes) "Stay tuned folks" or it may be "That's all folks" time will tell.
I thought TV One is duking it out with BET (and isn't Bounce a subchannel?).
According to Dave Meltzer [in the article at http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-...-deals-jon-jones-plea-nitro-week-kevin-owens] , ROH is supposed to start airing on WNCN in Philadelphia, but I've never heard of such a station. Is it a LP/OTA station, a new subchannel, or did he confuse Philadelphia, PA with Philadelphia, MS?
It's WMCN. Channel 44 in Atlantic City. (It was on Channel 53 until 2002). WNCN is an NBC station in North Carolina.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMCN-TV
Note: The website listed on Wikipedia goes to GO DADDY and it says the domain expired September 15, 2015.
lets start emailing Bounce TV to pick up TNA Impact Wrestling. www.bouncetv.com
That sort of sucks, since WMCN isn't always on in my part of Philly, although it was fairly strong when it was Bounce, before it was moved.
Where, at least in Hanover/Lebanon NH (Comcast), it will be seen on a sliver of the screen -- maybe one-quarter -- above an old-fashioned scrolling program guide. Paragon Pro Wrestling, a tiny indie promotion, already has its show aired on Pop.
I hear Sinclair's new digi-net COMET TV is picking it up.
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