Impact Wrestling Moving to Friday Nights in 2015; World Title Match Announced for Debut Episode

[prophet]

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TNA moving to Friday nights on a channel called 'Destination America'. Is this good news? Never heard of that channel so one of you will have to let me know if this is a step-up from Spike.

[Messiah]

It is a huge step-down. Not that many people in the grand scheme of things have Destination America, especially compared to Spike.

The only good news for them is that there was an article stating that Destination America and Netflix were in negotiations. If TNA could get programming on Netflix, that would be good for them assuming they take advantage of it.

[The Legend]

Interesting about Netflix. But yeah, I don't know a single person that gets Destination America.

[Westcoastvibes]

It is a huge step-down. Not that many people in the grand scheme of things have Destination America, especially compared to Spike.

The only good news for them is that there was an article stating that Destination America and Netflix were in negotiations. If TNA could get programming on Netflix, that would be good for them assuming they take advantage of it.

Although Destination American is avail be to around 30% less viewers (so I read), they are part of the discovery network. This means that TNA has the potential to have far superior promotion capabilities across all of discovery's channels and I bet discovery will give a hell of a discount to them for it to help gain viewers. The discovery network is also about to ink a deal with Netflix that supposedly is gonna provide access to all shows across the entire network to users.

So in the end, it's a smaller station with less households but the potential benefits kinda balance it out.

[Hanley!]

It sounds like a huge step down, honestly. I knew they were heading to a smaller network, but now they're moving to the Friday night death slot at the same time? When you factor in the viewers they might lose during their hiatus, this is really bad for the company.

I thought the advantage of Destination America is that it would allow TNA to build their brand a bit and maybe establish a second show, but if they're sticking their flagship show on the Friday death slot, it's hard to imagine they'll get much use out of a second show. Hopefully there's some truth to the Netflix rumours, because that's the only positive I'm taking out of all this. That'd be bringing wrestling to an audience in a different way and could actually be quite exciting.

[Messiah]

Its probably to avoid going head to head with SmackDown which is moving to Thursday's sometime in January.

[Westcoastvibes]

Its probably to avoid going head to head with SmackDown which is moving to Thursday's sometime in January.

They should have stuck to the current Wednesday timeslot, it seems to work well for them with essentially no competition