Yesterday's WON said the newest channel TNA was close to getting TV on Destination America. Meltzer later said it progressed to a verbal deal. Worth noting TNA was pretty close to a deal with Toby Keith/Jeff Jarrett which didn't happen many months ago, so close deals with TNA can still fall apart but this sounds pretty close.
Destination America is a channel you might get, but you don't know you get. A lot like El Rey. The wikipedia article claims 52% of US get it, but it's highest rated show was a half million and the average number figures to be much lower. It has greater reach than ROH has with it's Sinclair stations, but those stations are more watched than Destination America, so it's likely more people will actually see ROH than TNA.
There's no other info: no mention of the start date, day of the week, length of the show, length of the contract, how much they're getting paid for the contract. TNA would live, but how much would have to change to for it to continue to live is unknown.
(I started a TNA thread and not a LU one, I don't even)
I know exactly what Destination America is because Jon Hein of Howard Stern Wrap-Up Show fame hosted a show about fast food on the channel a couple years back that I actually sought out and watched because that's where my life was at then.
Like El Rey, it's on my XFINITY! dial, but only in SD... so I probably won't ever watch it live (assuming an HD stream will be made available on demand...or by other means) and - let's face it, I'm not exactly going out of my way to watch TNA RIGHT NOW, so it's gonna be a tall hill to climb, I think.
Does anybody know if the UK TV deal with Challenge is continuing/affected? I get the impression they have a stronger following over here than in the US these days. This new 'lesser' US deal might continue to strengthen that.
Thanks for that link. Same here--it's available on my cable system, but I'd need to buy a higher-priced tier, which isn't going to happen. (El Rey isn't on my system at all.)
Well, I'll be damned. I get it, too. But, since its inception, I think I've watched TNA MAYBE a dozen times, and have never watched a show beginning to end. Like 20 minute chunks and that's it.
Originally posted by wannaberockstarI'm not certain I want to be around for whatever comes out of the eventual cross-promotional angle between TNA and Amish Haunting.
I'd like to think this entire run has been a crossover with What Went Wrong.
Does anybody know if the UK TV deal with Challenge is continuing/affected? I get the impression they have a stronger following over here than in the US these days.
It should continue - separate deal with TNA and not Spike, so they're good wherever TNA ends up (as long as they're still producing shows.)
This is a thing that probably is only interesting to uberdorks like me but I wonder how the show will be covered/reported on going forward. TNA was already treated like an important #2 promotion because there was a massive gap for #2 when they started and because they eventually made their way to big TV channels. There are arguments for them still being #2, but it's really clear wrestling in the US is one big killer whale and a lot of minnows and minnows don't get a lot of attention. This may help TNA weirdly, since promotions people don't pay attention to start with don't get as many LOLTNA pieces written about them. (There's not nearly as many LOLROH ones, and it's not like there hasn't been issues there.) Or maybe people just like the LOLTNA genre better than TNA itself and will keep looking for content?
Originally posted by wannaberockstarI'm not certain I want to be around for whatever comes out of the eventual cross-promotional angle between TNA and Amish Haunting.
Originally posted by thecubsfan This is a thing that probably is only interesting to uberdorks like me but I wonder how the show will be covered/reported on going forward. TNA was already treated like an important #2 promotion because there was a massive gap for #2 when they started and because they eventually made their way to big TV channels. There are arguments for them still being #2, but it's really clear wrestling in the US is one big killer whale and a lot of minnows and minnows don't get a lot of attention. This may help TNA weirdly, since promotions people don't pay attention to start with don't get as many LOLTNA pieces written about them. (There's not nearly as many LOLROH ones, and it's not like there hasn't been issues there.) Or maybe people just like the LOLTNA genre better than TNA itself and will keep looking for content
I defer to whatever you think re: coverage by Meltzer, etc., but yeah, it'll still be about content and getting those clicks on content farm sites and their slightly more reputable kin. As long as it still has Someone People Saw On TV Once, I don't see TNA ceding its place as the second most popular promotion about which to write a half-assed story when someone on the roster does something dumb.
This maybe would have changed if Corgan's TV show had been picked up - I sure as shit would have been excited to goof on whatever that turned out to be - and maybe, I guess, still changes if Global Force gets a TV spot and Jarrett signs Someone Even More People Saw On TV Once. But that Corgan thing, I think that would have hit that sweet spot of lapsed wrestling fans who love to rubberneck at pop culture train wrecks.
MMMM.....well I do get the DestAm channel though I'm not entirely sure I've ever actually watched anything on it yet. If TNA does gets a new deal & moves to it I'll watch for the same reasons I do now; that they have people I like there, some good wrestling matches when the creative direction of the product doesn't interfere with them, and you can always learn something from watching, no matter what it is. But like Cubs, I have to wonder how much the show itself is going to change.
Out of morbid curiousity, I decided to check out this channel. It's definitely not going to help with TNA's image problem since watching fifteen minutes of it made the Duck Dynasty people look like Rhodes Scholars in comparison.
Yeah, I have the station as well. As long as it's not on Wednesday nights I'll tune in, since that's the one night of the week I'm always out and I don't have TiVo ...
Meltz is saying that Dixie is announcing this (or something) to the TNA workers at 11:45 central (or right now).
Edit doubleposted that for no reason I can think
(edited by AWArulz on 19.11.14 1244) 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
(edited by AWArulz on 19.11.14 1305) 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
Pretty steep drop off from Spike as Spike is in 97 million homes vs Destination America being in only around 60 million homes. Meltzer suggested the ROH might get more viewers on a weekly basis as the highest rated show on a Destination America draws under a half million viewers. Impact has struggled to even draw a million viewers since moving to Wednesday's. With Aries, Joe, Kim and the Wolves contracts expired or on the verge of being I wonder if they re-sign any of them. That said, there are rumors that ADRIAN is on the way to TNA so who knows really.
I really wish she had just sold out to Spike and gave up control of the company. As much as I loved 'Dixieland', she has no clue how to run the business.