This has been said of TNA (and for that matter ROH) since the companies started, so I don't know. Dixie (for all the dislike she seems to receive - and I admit to being no fan of TNA) seems to really want to run a wrestling promotion and seems to have money available. I don't know if I am willing to bet against her.
Interesting: My flag is USA even though I am in the UAE. Must be how my ISP is configured.
(edited by AWArulz on 25.9.14 0723) We'll be back right after order has been restored here in the Omni Center.
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy - Swift
The problem is not necessarily TNA staying running, it's the massive step down in terms of funds and exposure that is going to be necessary for it to stay running. Comparing it to ROH is kind of a non-starter - ROH has never enjoyed the kind of backing or exposure that TNA has frequently had over the years. It's going to have to shrink down in size and aspiration to the point where it will basically be a completely different promotion.
Originally posted by Amos CochranThe problem is not necessarily TNA staying running, it's the massive step down in terms of funds and exposure that is going to be necessary for it to stay running. Comparing it to ROH is kind of a non-starter - ROH has never enjoyed the kind of backing or exposure that TNA has frequently had over the years. It's going to have to shrink down in size and aspiration to the point where it will basically be a completely different promotion.
That's only if they end up on a Velocity. If they end up on WGN or Ion or CMT they'll be in 70-80 million homes so they won't have to do that much stripping down. I do think the broadcast fees will play a factor in that too.
WGN - the rumoured destination - aren't going to pay TNA anywhere near the amount that Spike would. They're also not going to bankroll spending on big names like Spike did.
Originally posted by Amos CochranThe problem is not necessarily TNA staying running, it's the massive step down in terms of funds and exposure that is going to be necessary for it to stay running. Comparing it to ROH is kind of a non-starter - ROH has never enjoyed the kind of backing or exposure that TNA has frequently had over the years. It's going to have to shrink down in size and aspiration to the point where it will basically be a completely different promotion.
That's only if they end up on a Velocity. If they end up on WGN or Ion or CMT they'll be in 70-80 million homes so they won't have to do that much stripping down. I do think the broadcast fees will play a factor in that too.
WGN, Ion, or CMT might be in more homes but, let's face it, that doesn't mean people are watching or that they'll promote TNA as heavily as Spike -- which did a lot more for TNA then just give them a place to air a television program.
I'd imagine all three are a heck of a lot more conservative/traditional than Spike, too.
I suggested WGN early in this thread (even first, I think) because WGN is changing their programming. They drop the Cubs after 50 or so years this week, I don't know about the White Sox and Bulls and Blackhawks. But they are making a play for the future - as a station about programs and not about Chicago. I think they could make a real home for Impact.
We'll be back right after order has been restored here in the Omni Center.
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy - Swift
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go backstage. I'm proud of myself, I just beat Brad Armstrong!" - Arn Anderson on WCW Saturday Night in 1992, in the classiest display I've ever seen of someone putting over an underrated mid-carder that everyone in the locker room knew deserved better than the push he got.
I could see a TNA being part of that - not local sports, but national, even international. I was really surprised at how popular and mainstream WWE was in dubai.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy - Swift
Originally posted by AWArulzI suggested WGN early in this thread (even first, I think) because WGN is changing their programming. They drop the Cubs after 50 or so years this week, I don't know about the White Sox and Bulls and Blackhawks. But they are making a play for the future - as a station about programs and not about Chicago. I think they could make a real home for Impact.
There is a station that wants less live sports on? They dropped the Cubs? Or the Cubs dropped them?
Cubs may be dropping WGN. (Or: WGN had been underpaying the Cubs for years because they were owned by the same people and now they're not.) WGN may end up with no Cubs games or a reduced number of games; this was expected to be sorted out by now and strangely hasn't been.
WGN America has had different program - less Chicago stuff, different syndicated reruns - since they split it off from WGN Chicago a few years ago (and you can't get WGN America if you get WGN Chicago.) The WWE programming only aired on WGN America and not on WGN Chicago and I wonder if the TNA programming would be the same.
There may not be any...I've heard that the last five or six DVDs they put out didn't have extras with them....they just wanted to get the events out quickly, and so they just put out discs with the event only.