Title: 2 hour Impact Rating...
Scrooge McSuck - November 5, 2005 02:29 AM (GMT)
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TNA's special prime time 2 hour special for iMPACT! last night drew a final Nielsen Broadcast Rating of 0.9. While not a bad number, this has to be looked at as a slight disappointment considering the 1 hour edition of iMPACT! on Saturday nights, in a much worse time slot, has drawn this number before.
Credit: Ryan Droste of Wrestleview.com
Credit: Dave Meltzer @ Wrestling Observer |
In other words, reality just smacked everyone in the face. TNA doesn't have an audience to be on primetime slots.
S.T. Strickler - November 5, 2005 02:33 AM (GMT)
That sorta sucks for a good show. Looks like they'll have to try harder.
SamoaRowe - November 5, 2005 03:48 AM (GMT)
That rating just broke my heart.
jamiegeist - November 5, 2005 06:26 AM (GMT)
Did you guys expect 3.0's or something? I mean, this is still just around their first month on Spike, a channel that I'm not sure anyone watches or really understands, and this is their first shot at a Primetime slot, with little to no build, time wise. This thing was barely announced ahead of time.
I have little faith in Nielsen Ratings anymore anyway, because of this tivo-ed up day and age we live in. I don't watch any of my favorite programs live, I just DVR them and watch later.
SamoaRowe - November 5, 2005 11:40 AM (GMT)
I wasn't expecting a 3.0, but I was expecting in the very least a 1.0. I didn't think that was too much to ask for.
Scrooge McSuck - November 5, 2005 01:26 PM (GMT)
I expected something like 1.3, considering they were airing commercials non-stop for a week on their network hyping the show. If you can't get a higher number in primetime than what you've done on weekend late-nights... well, back to the drawing board. Try buying commercial time on a real network, like CBS or something during one of those crappy shows like Overrated Housewives.
dynamite kido - November 5, 2005 03:21 PM (GMT)
Well, I would have to say that this happened for several reasons.
#1) They didn't have enough time to build this. They threw everything together and pushed it on TV all week. To get a better rating, they would have had to push it for longer on TV.
#2)They should have announced the whole card ahead of time. I know they announced the money matches (if that's what you want to call them) but they should have built it like a PPV and maybe it could have pulled a different number.
Big F'N Swigg - November 7, 2005 02:49 AM (GMT)
I still think it's a good rating. Seeing that most cable networks would KILL for a .9 rating. And the Nielsen ratings can account for Tivo as well. They just have an extra column for when the show originally aired.
I consider this a success. It's hard to build a TV audience for a wrestling program. the fact that they get .9 at all is a success.
dynamite kido - November 7, 2005 03:52 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (TheBigSwigg @ Nov 6 2005, 08:49 PM) |
I still think it's a good rating. Seeing that most cable networks would KILL for a .9 rating. And the Nielsen ratings can account for Tivo as well. They just have an extra column for when the show originally aired.
I consider this a success. It's hard to build a TV audience for a wrestling program. the fact that they get .9 at all is a success. |
I would agree that a .9 is a success for the level of effort that TNA and Spike put into it. But it's going to have to improve the next time out.....
Big F'N Swigg - November 7, 2005 03:54 AM (GMT)
Very true. The next two hour special needs to break 1-1.3. But for a wrestling show that seemed to have nothing going for it other than they picked up a WWE timeslot, it's good