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Impact been live will help ratings improve, theres always a big diffference from taped to live.
Impact could see a 1.3 or 1.4 with a live show on thursday. Promotion is the key though |
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Impact been live will help ratings improve, theres always a big diffference from taped to live.
Impact could see a 1.3 or 1.4 with a live show on thursday. Promotion is the key though |
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In the age of the internet it's far from a moot point. The number of people who merely read Impact spoilers each week and then pass judgment on the program is staggering.
Let me ask you a question - if Smackdown was live every week instead of taped, do you think it's ratings would increase? |
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In the age of the internet it's far from a moot point. The number of people who merely read Impact spoilers each week and then pass judgment on the program is staggering.
Let me ask you a question - if Smackdown was live every week instead of taped, do you think it's ratings would increase? (This came out shortly after Paul Heyman had his meeting with Spike, so it's likely he's the source.) |
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It is a moot point; TNA have done market research showing your casual Spike viewer- which is most of the audience- knows no difference between live and taped shows, even when TNA constantly has the announcers say it's live on the live ones.
(This came out shortly after Paul Heyman had his meeting with Spike, so it's likely he's the source.) |
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I love her accent. It's so confused between German, English and American that it's strangely erotic
![]() S**t storyline though. ![]() This? Or this? I've always had a slight thing for gothic birds though. This screen cap leaves a LOT to the imagination though.
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As far as Goth divas go, she's no Daffney. |
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Being at bigger arenas may help. Being live is a mute point.
I know there's a financial implication but the atmosphere in that "arena" really tends to kill most of the shows they put on there. how many matches have been wrestled in near silence? |
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Bloody useless market research if they only looked at TNA's current audience - proper market research would have looked at TNA's potential audience and the reasons why they don't watch it. I don't think live tapings are the holy grail for TNA but I agree with the earlier poster that a good live show could draw a 1.3-1.4.
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Being anywhere other than the Impact zone would help ..
I know there's a financial implication but the atmosphere in that "arena" really tends to kill most of the shows they put on there. how many matches have been wrestled in near silence? |
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It's 2 hours in a night - tapings are on Monday and Tuesday. Although Xplosion probably adds on another 45 minutes.
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It's 2 hours in a night - tapings are on Monday and Tuesday. Although Xplosion probably adds on another 45 minutes.
I suppose thats even worse than what I was suggesting. If you can't keep fans interested for what is the usual length of a PPV. |
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I'm not as big a critic of the Impact Zone as some although I do think them going on the road now and again is a good idea. Mix that in with the odd live episode (in the Impact Zone or otherwise) and I think the product would be freshened up straight away.
Also when it comes to pay-per-views at the Impact Zone they should change the look of the place, make it look like an important show and not just a three hour Impact. |
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Sorry, I was thinking about the previous setup a while back.
I suppose thats even worse than what I was suggesting. If you can't keep fans interested for what is the usual length of a PPV. I find the PPV audience is usually pretty into the show. The last PPV they had away from the Impact Zone - Lockdown - had a terrible audience, whilst the Impact Zone PPVs have had much better reactions. I agree with decemberboy though that they need to spice up the look of the IZ for PPV's. Presentation is a major weak point for TNA. |
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It is difficult to change up the set for PPV's in the Impact Zone. I think the space is fairly restrictive.
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I'm not sure how long they take to tape Impact, i know WWE take breaks during the taping of Smackdown rather than just filming every segment one after the other. I know a lot of the pretapes you see on Impact Wrestling are not shown to the audience in the Impact Zone.
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I'm not sure how long they take to tape Impact, i know WWE take breaks during the taping of Smackdown rather than just filming every segment one after the other. I know a lot of the pretapes you see on Impact Wrestling are not shown to the audience in the Impact Zone.
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If they keep the taping schedule the way it is now then the week they tape outside the Impact Zone is the week they are due to tape more episodes so they could go live on Thursday, start taping at 7pm and broadcast on a tape delay or infact just continue as normal and have the episode they tape on the Thursday air the following week.
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So you'd be fine as long as you never had to look at her face-on?
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As far as Goth divas go, she's no Daffney.
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Being anywhere other than the Impact zone would help ..
I know there's a financial implication but the atmosphere in that "arena" really tends to kill most of the shows they put on there. how many matches have been wrestled in near silence? |
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From WrestlingObserver.com Quote:
Besides the 8/25 show in Huntsville, AL that was noted last week, Spike TV today announced that they would be doing Impact tapings on 9/21 in Knosville and 10/26 in Macon, GA.
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Maybe they will just do 1 a month to start off with.
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Sounds like a good idea to me.
Any word yet on buyrates for Destination X? Curious to see whether the IWC actually bothered to buy it after complaining for years about the X-Division not being focused on. |
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Well the numbers will speak for themselves if they ever get released or the content of TNA in the coming months will reveal all if they start putting more focus on the X Division.
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Just saw on Twitter that the latest viewing figures for Impact on Challenge were 236,000, a new UKTV record and more than RAW and Smackdown combined...and the Saturday replay did 126,000!
Very impressive numbers indeed, X-Division works! |
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Those are huge figures, especially for the repeat aswell!
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Sounds like a good idea to me.
Any word yet on buyrates for Destination X? Curious to see whether the IWC actually bothered to buy it after complaining for years about the X-Division not being focused on. I suppose we will have to wait and see the spoilers to see if TNA plans a new era with the X Division. |
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