TNA lowest rating of the year last week

[Steiner Recliner]

Last Thursday's Impact scored a 0.9. I first heard about this rating on the Don Tony and Kevin Castle show, but since I bet I would get heat for mentioning that I heard about it there, I read about the rating on www.cagesideseats.com/tna-impact/....romotional-push

Something I found funny was that Don Tony mentioned that the "TNA kool-aid drinkers" as he likes to say, were mentioning that maybe the reason the ratings went down this week was because the fans were burned out from WrestleMania. I found this funny because just as I was reading this article, the person said, and I quote, "It's hard to explain this one, but with WrestleMania having come and gone, it's possible fans are just burned out." Now I think that this is the worst excuse I have ever heard about the ratings being down for Impact since the excuse Dixie made when TNA had their lowest rating ever on Twitter that since HBK retired on RAW was the reason the rating went down, or when they got low ratings when the Olympics were on that it was cause the Olympics. Now, I am liking some of what TNA is doing, match wise, but the only excuse there is as to why the ratings were bad on Impact (excluding the day they got a low rating when they moved to 8 pm, which I excused that one time because some people might have forgotten that they moved time slots) is that fans were not interested in watching the show. Now for a live episode, I expected a 1.0, 1.1. I remember when they moved time slots, either Dixie or some executive from Spike mentioned that they moved time slots because they thought there were more viewers available at 8 pm. Well, where are the extra fans, cause the ratings have not improved at all.

For anyone who might defend TNA saying that maybe the fans being burned out cause of WrestleMania being the reason the ratings were down, I would like to do the same thing Don Tony did and that's to show the ratings of Impact from the show before and show after WrestleManias 24-28 and compare the ratings there:

WM 24 - March 30, 2008:
iMPACT! (March 27 2008): 1.0 [Live iMPACT!]
iMPACT! (April 3 2008): 1.1

WM 25 - April 5, 2009:
April 2, 2009 1.3
April 9, 2009 1.3

WM 26 - March 28, 2010
March 22, 2010 0.86
March 29, 2010 0.56

WM 27 - April 3, 2011
March 31, 2011 - 1.18
April 7, 2011 - 1.15

WM 28 - April 1, 2012
March 29, 2012 - 1.05
April 5, 2012 - 1.12

WM 29 - April 7, 2013
April 4, 2013 - 1.10
April 11, 2013 - 0.9




Copied from the OP on WF.

[PRIME Wrestling]

TNA is just shit now. Compared to the WWE, I believe they have a stronger roster, but they are just terrible with using their talent!

[Dylan.]

Maybe if they, I don't know. Don't have a title change every other week. Try to establish more stars, instead of Aces in Eights filler promos... Then maybe it would be a 1.0 eventually.