Originally Posted by hazydayz:
“I think for any announcer to perform well they need to be interested and excited. wrestling is fake and everything about it is fake but you need the announcers to be into it and believe it in order to sell it to viewers at home. You can't have announcers outhere that don't care about what's going on in the ring, it shows.
I hope they do hit the reboot button and am glad the deal includes more TV than just Impact and hopefully they will get behind TNA and promote TNA, something Spike rarely did. I'm sure TNA asked what the ad revenue was for the other shows on the network and what their current top shows were making from advertising. I don't think they would go into losing money. I think if they are smart they will get someone completely new to do the booking and writing of the TV shows. This relying on old times from the wrestling business doesn't work and let me tell you this, the demographic for this channel might not be the same as the other major cable channels out there but it's still an audience. It's still people that want to sit and watch TV and enjoy the shows they are watching. They are not wrestling fans. All the wrestling fans in the USA already watch Raw on Monday and a small amount of them watch TNA or DVR TNA and watch it later. I know it's a wrestling show but that shouldn't be the focus of the show. They need fresh writers, fresh characters, the kind of show that people all ages will watch. The people that already watch this Discovery Channel are going to discover TNA probably for the first time, they need to put out a product that will make people stay on the channel and keep watching and likewise with Discovery they should be working with TNA to get the most eyeballs on their channel. The wrestling business is dead in the water. 10 minute fake fights isn't gonna do it. It's gonna take some hard work and effort to get this thing right.
Look what Lucha Underground is doing now, something different, uniqe, it's exciting and engaging. The time flies by. It's filmed like a movie, it takes itself seriously and plays seriously. It never feels cheesy or corny. TNA should follow suit and present their wrestling product in a completely different way, nothing at all like the competition and stick to it. Get an identity and tell people who they are and what they are and stick to it. I would even go as far as reformatting the shows. I wouldn't even have a Dixie Carter or GM. I'd tell people right off the bat what the matches are that night. Maybe have fan involvement for stipulations, even something like the Nitro girls but have them out there with bikinis on and getting the crowd going and doing something with the main event or gimmick matches. Maybe having a leaderboard for the championship contenders or even better why not split the show into 2 one hour slots? Why not have 1 hour on Tuesday night and one hour on Thursday night? Or Wednesday and Thursday? Not only can you hype a main even for the second hour that week but you're still getting your 2 hours of TV and all the talent get TV time. It will fly by. It could be like any sport/tv show. You can get one good hour of TV and then you get a little something else to look forward to the next night or two nights later. You have maybe 3 good matches on the show, a few promos to sell THOSE matches, maybe some character vignettes and that's it. You still have your wrestlers interacting and storylines but it's done in a way that IF it were real.....that's how it would be. And splitting the show up over a few nights and just calling them Impact is again.......something that's never been done by any wrestling company. That idea alone is a new way of presenting professional wrestling on TV. 42 minutes minus commercials over the course of a few days. It's no different than watching a few football matches or a few days of golf or Eastenders.”
Some very good points there. I think the big problem is TNA has always tried to be exactly like WWE and really they should present themselves as an alternative. Hopefully they will start pushing newer talent and maybe even sign talent trading agreements with other companies to make themselves more interesting for markets that don't get TNA that perhaps could get them on board.
& still sell out their UK tours so atleast the tna fans are loyal despite being insignificant in numbers! 👍”
... Pity about havok loosing her belt tho!) 
