By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

TNA Impact on Thursday, February 6 officially scored a 1.24 rating off a first hour 1.31 rating and second hour 1.17 rating.

Impact benefited from the "Cops" lead-in on Spike TV, as Q1 scored a show-high 1.40 rating. Impact then steadily dropped off throughout the show, finishing with 1.11 and 1.15 ratings in Q7 and Q8.

Quarter-Hour Break Down

Q1: For the sixth consecutive week to start 2014, Q1 scored the highest rating of the show, registering a 1.40 rating for the opening segment. This week featured Abyss vs. Eric Young in a Monster's Ball match without a commercial.

Q2: Impact held close with a 1.33 rating for MVP's first TNA promo following a pre-commercial hook to hear MVP speak for the first time. The segment included one commercial.

Q3: Impact continued a steady decline to a 1.26 rating for Bully Ray beating up Curry Man and two full commercial breaks.

Q4: Impact held at a 1.26 rating for Austin Aries's impromptu X Division Title match against D.J. Zema and one commercial.

Q5: Impact did not get a top-of-the-hour bump, slipping to a 1.23 rating for a non-wrestling segment centered on MVP and Dixie Carter talking backstage, plus one commercial, and the first-half of Magnus vs. Kurt Angle.

Q6: Impact slipped to a 1.19 rating for the end of Angle vs. Magnus, one commercial, backstage segments, and Chris Sabin talking to Velvet Sky.

Q7: Impact fell to a show-low 1.11 rating for Sabin chewing out Sky, one commercial, and the first-half of Samoa Joe vs. Bobby Roode in the main event.

Q8: Impact rebounded slightly to a 1.15 rating for the end of Joe vs. Roode, one commercial, and an eight-minute MVP-Dixie "summit" to conclude the show.

Caldwell's Analysis: The trend continues of TNA benefiting from a strong "Cops" lead-in, then retaining some viewers in the first-half of the show, but slowly losing the overall audience by the end of the show.

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