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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2011 15:03:45 GMT -4
RAW in 2010 dipped 8% in rating, iMPACT! dipped 7% and so the overall mainstream wrestling product has dipped in viewers. We all know wrestling is nowhere near what it once was when WCW and WWE were in the Monday Night War era...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2011 15:20:29 GMT -4
RAW in 2010 dipped 8% in rating, iMPACT! dipped 7% and so the overall mainstream wrestling product has dipped in viewers. We all know wrestling is nowhere near what it once was when WCW and WWE were in the Monday Night War era... What do you mean iMPACT dipped in viewers? They brought in Jeff Hardy, RVD, The Nasty Boys, Eric Bischoff, Hulk Hogan, and Ric Flair! And to be fair, you can attribute the ratings (in part) to the amount of people who just DVR the shows. Separate rant, but: Has anyone else read the Jeff Jarrett thing where he said the reason TNA didn't compete with RAW was because of DVR? I also laughed when they said they 'never intended to go to war with WWE'. Uh, you're on Monday nights, in the same time slot that Nitro was in, and they MENTIONED that the "War was beginning" on the 1/4 iMPACT.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2011 15:33:40 GMT -4
Bringing those guys did help at first with a 1.45 rating, but we know what happened next...
TNA in 2010 dropped from 1.14 in 2009 to 1.06 which was the same rating they had in 2008, so they're back to the 2008 rating...
Overall it's just a sign WWE and TNE are down from last year, which happens when people are not entertained by the product...
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Post by wildfire on Jan 19, 2011 13:42:14 GMT -4
That doesn't seem too bad to me. I would be willing to bet TV ratings as a whole are down, too.
I haven't seen TNA numbers, but WWE PPV buys were way down as well.... 20-something percent IIRC.... Dave Metzler has a yahoo article on it somewhere out there. That seems more serious to me that the TV Ratings.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2011 13:46:05 GMT -4
Yeah ppv buys are big I would say, but TNA keeps their ppv buys close to the vest for the most part and they're nowhere near the level the WWE is...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2011 13:55:42 GMT -4
The last time I remember seeing TNA numbers was the end of 2008 where their best PPV buy was Bound For Glory at like 50,000 buys, and that was 1/3 of the buys that Cyber Sunday (WWE's worst PPV buy) did. That was the day I went, "Jesus there really is no competition anymore."
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Post by maddog1981 on Jan 19, 2011 19:47:50 GMT -4
You know, I really think Impact could've competed with Raw. Not win or be close but bump ratings into that 1.5 range overall. They just put on such a shitty television product and wasted that chance. But that's TNA for you. Have the ability for greatness and shit the bed with stupidity.
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