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October 16, 2010

TNA Impact rating is highest since January, but ...

The good news for TNA is that this past Thursday’s Impact was the highest-rated episode of the show since January.

The bad news is that the quarter-hour breakdowns show that the longer the show went, the more people tuned out.

Coming off the company’s biggest pay-per-view of the year – Sunday’s Bound for Glory, which featured Jeff Hardy turning heel and the reveal that Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff and Jeff Jarrett are “They” – Impact did an overall rating of 1.4, which is up from last week’s live show (1.3) and the previous week’s episode (1.2).

However, while Thursday’s talk-heavy show opened with a strong 1.5 first quarter, it dropped in subsequent quarters, bottoming out with a 1.2 in the final one, which included the segment with The Shore and JWoww of “Jersey Shore.”

The rating for this coming Thursday’s Impact should be a good indication of whether the hostile takeover story line and Hardy’s heel turn are resonating with viewers.

Posted by Kevin Eck at 8:17 PM | | Comments (7)
        

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I didnt seemuch of the show thankfully but fromwhat i saw it was just to get non-wrestling fans watching,which is sad because this would have been a great show to set things in the right direction. You can tell the storyline is shot as they dont pay attention to details. Atleast the Edoes watch the little things and comments so things sorta makes sense,but really,Dixielost hercompany to Hulk? Ugh.

Im going to my first TNA show tomorrow (after the Bears squash Seattle) and Mr. Anderson is not wrestling now due to that sick injury he took on the show. Good luck trying to sell Jeff hard the hell...maybe they will do better with Matt as his mouthpiece.

No, this doesn't mean anything. They've got 1.5, and they'll say, "WHOO HOO, we've finally nailed it! Now, Jeff Hardy should start firing lightning bolts, Ric Flair should come out already bleeding on his face...Russo, you've DONE IT!! Raised salary!!" Something like that. /negative thinking

Wow cant believe that people actually made it through the whole show

I probably tune in, but I like to watch a train wreck. TNA is terrible, I wish that they would let their talent wrestle.

Its episodes like that which REALLY sucks that TNA does all their shows at The Impact Zone in front of maybe a hundred or so actual fans with the rest being TNA plants, crew and their family/friends and wrestlers' family/friends. Seriously, went to a show there a couple years back and sat about 4 rows back, the entire front section openly bragged about how "blah blah works here and gets us tickets. All we have to do cheer and we don't pay." Which made so much sense after because absolutely no one lives where they tape. They try so hard to make it seem like the ECW crowds but ECW didn't have plants. An actual crowd at a random arena would have booed them back to Florida. Instead we get a mild "fire russo" chant which was drowned out by the plants chanting "you sold out" to Jeff Hardy which he conveniently had a response to. I don't think Hardy could improv in a game of charades. I'm actually surprised they weren't already chanting "anti christ" but maybe Russo decided that would be TOO obvious.

I think the criticism of TNA was a little overdone. While I didn't think it was the best Impact, I didn't think it was the worst either. TNA has been receiving heat about not finishing storylines and this show was used to deliver the pay-out for several storylines that have been hanging out there, granted...hanging out there too long.

I do criticize them for having such little wrestling! Man, we tune into a wrestling program to see wrestling...what a novel idea. I think WWE and TNA do WAY too much talking and not enough wrestling. TNA has just recently went down that road...WWE has been doing it for a while now.

I thought it was a pretty compelling show and I think we are going to continue to see TNA's ratings go up.

I figured out why Jeff Hardy turned. Hogan promised to pay for his legal problems.
If Kennedy is wrestling on thursday, that sick bump is going to turn out to be a joke.
I kind of like the swerve that Abyss had with this group but Jeff Jarrett. Not at all.
So much for everything that I keep reading about Russo and Hogan never working together.

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