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Technical Malfunction Night for Pop TV and TNA Impact produced a decline in TV viewership.
TNA Impact Viewership Tracking
June 14: The break down for post-Slammiversary Impact includes:
- 9:00 to 10:50 p.m. – 127,000 viewers. The nearly-two-hour transmission problem during TNA’s scheduled timeslot was reported as a “Pop Special.”
- 10:50 p.m. to 12:21 a.m. – 155,000 viewers. The limited-commercial-interruption broadcast lasted 91 minutes.
- 12:00 a.m. to 2:10 a.m. – 14,000 viewers. Another section of Pop’s Tuesday night/Wednesday morning programming was attributed to Impact.
- Total Viewership: 296,000 viewers
Other industry totals are factoring in 41,000 viewers from 12:21 a.m. to 2:28 a.m. for a broadcast that was attributed to “Practical Magic” and not TNA Impact.
Update: The Wednesday night encore drew 82,000 viewers on Pop TV, slightly fewer than Lucha Underground’s 89,000 first-run viewers in the 8:00 p.m. EST timeslot.
- Impact Malfunction Original Airing: 127,000 viewers
- Take 2 Airing: 155,000 viewers
- Additional tally: 14,000 viewers
- Wed. Night encore: 82,000 viewers
- TOTAL: 378,000 viewers
It all adds up to an audience similar to the “May Mayhem” Impact special.
Tough to really judge this one. Tonight’s viewership number will the better barometer and I am curious to see what it does tonight. Could be a test run for a potential Wednesday move if POP decides to move TNA to avoid Live Smackdown next month.
Wrestling – not named WWE – is pretty much on life support in American television.
They plan on moving to Thursday nights starting at the end of July