Originally Posted by seibu:
“In the US, Sunday's Impact drew a total of 414,000 viewers, comprised of 338,000 original viewers and 76,000 West Coast/replay viewers. It's a big drop from the previous week and the lowest rating so far on Destination America.
As I've always said, there's very little correlation between how the internet perceives the quality of what TNA put out and how it actually performs in terms of viewers. Many personalities and angles which the internet hates were actually big draws, and the reverse is also sometimes true.”
“In the US, Sunday's Impact drew a total of 414,000 viewers, comprised of 338,000 original viewers and 76,000 West Coast/replay viewers. It's a big drop from the previous week and the lowest rating so far on Destination America.
As I've always said, there's very little correlation between how the internet perceives the quality of what TNA put out and how it actually performs in terms of viewers. Many personalities and angles which the internet hates were actually big draws, and the reverse is also sometimes true.”
This is flawed analysis.
It is a faulty assumption to say the least to assume that the quality of an in progress episode is what draws viewers in. That's rarely, if ever, the case for episodic television. More important to the ratings of any given episode is the quality and reaction of those that go before it. So I would suggest that this weeks ratings are perhaps a more accurate reflection on last weeks show than they are on this weeks.
The test will be whether good word of mouth for this weeks edition has any kind of positive effect on next weeks show and whether TNA is able to build momentum or not.




. Further tapings taking place May 9-11th.
