Pop renews Impact for another year

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Global Force Wrestling and Pop TV have signed a deal to keep Impact Wrestling on Pop for another year, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

While it’s good news that Impact will continue airing through 2018, GFW barely makes any money from the deal and their viewership performance wasn’t strong enough to bring in any revenue beyond a split on ad revenue from commercials that air during the broadcast.

GFW continues to run on a very tight budget, with the India and U.K. TV deals bringing in the lion’s share of the company’s revenue.

The company has been running fewer TV tapings in recent months (with more shows taped each round) and there’s no live event business to speak of.
www.sescoops.com/pop-tv-renews-gfw-impact-wrestling-for-another-year/

[Spider2024]

B-B-B-Bitchin!

[eJm]

So essentially...

'Oh cool, cheap programming we don't have to pay much for! Let's keep that going!'

[Mister Pigwell]

Look I'm happy for them, I'm happy everyone gets paid on time now, it's all good for them amd their families and the industry.
But I'd be lying as a fan of chaos that a terrible part of me doesn't miss the entertainment of the Death Watch.

[Push R Truth]

Alas, somebody tossed a couple more half-full-of-dry-paint cans into the dumpster fire

[Deleted]

I kind of expected Jarrett to drop them when the deal ran out and just magically expect to pick up a better network.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Aug 31, 2017 12:59:08 GMT -5 Mister Pigwell said:

Look I'm happy for them, I'm happy everyone gets paid on time now, it's all good for them amd their families and the industry.
But I'd be lying as a fan of chaos that a terrible part of me doesn't miss the entertainment of the Death Watch.

TNA death watches brought 100 pages easily. I will say I miss the chaos

[Zombie Mod]

Aug 31, 2017 12:59:08 GMT -5 Mister Pigwell said:

Look I'm happy for them, I'm happy everyone gets paid on time now, it's all good for them amd their families and the industry.
But I'd be lying as a fan of chaos that a terrible part of me doesn't miss the entertainment of the Death Watch.

just wait for the inevitable Dixie reveals she still owns a good chunk of tna and anthem bought all the eric young beards from the warehouse or bram's contracts.

I'll expect that until the heat death of this universe and into the next.

[J Lee O'Brien]

How... disappointing.

[Deleted]

Wait.....who am I supposed to laugh at here, TNFW or Pop?

[benstudd]

In short, still no money coming in. It's a huge difference from the days of Spike. They don't know how good they had it.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

There are entire years of my life where I did not feel as alive as I felt during the TNA deathwatch threads.

[J Lee O'Brien]

Aug 31, 2017 16:58:46 GMT -5 @akeemresurrection said:

Wait.....who am I supposed to laugh at here, TNFW or Pop?

GFNA.

Pop has no downside here until no one advertises during Ampact.

Speaking of, question for the poor unfortunate souls that still watch. Who even advertises during this dreck?

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Aug 31, 2017 19:09:59 GMT -5 J Lee O'Brien said:

Aug 31, 2017 16:58:46 GMT -5 @akeemresurrection said:

Wait.....who am I supposed to laugh at here, TNFW or Pop?

GFNA.

Pop has no downside here until no one advertises during Ampact.

Speaking of, question for the poor unfortunate souls that still watch. Who even advertises during this dreck?

Swedish Dicks.

[Welfare Willis]

Aug 31, 2017 14:05:37 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Aug 31, 2017 12:59:08 GMT -5 Mister Pigwell said:

Look I'm happy for them, I'm happy everyone gets paid on time now, it's all good for them amd their families and the industry.
But I'd be lying as a fan of chaos that a terrible part of me doesn't miss the entertainment of the Death Watch.

TNA death watches brought 100 pages easily. I will say I miss the chaos

We always have someone using twitter to say something incredibly racist and us making fried chicken jokes about it.

[Deleted]

treading water

[Ryushinku]

On the plus side, they can exist a bit longer. Mere existence seems to be the primary goal of GFW these past couple years or so.

On the negative, I guess those possibly optimistic rumours of Spike being interested again are out of the window. They instead get to stay in this very small pond.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Aug 31, 2017 12:48:23 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

B-B-B-Bitchin!

Do you like celebrities?

[A Platypus Rave]

Aug 31, 2017 17:34:11 GMT -5 benstudd said:

In short, still no money coming in. It's a huge difference from the days of Spike. They don't know how good they had it.

Especially because afterwards they started bad mouthing Spike about how they didn't do enough to help them.

Which is bullshit.

[eJm]

Sept 1, 2017 9:17:24 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Aug 31, 2017 17:34:11 GMT -5 benstudd said:

In short, still no money coming in. It's a huge difference from the days of Spike. They don't know how good they had it.

Especially because afterwards they started bad mouthing Spike about how they didn't do enough to help them.

Which is bullshit.

It seems like a thing they love to do.

They took subtle shots at Challenge for being a couple of days behind on when episodes were shown in the US (since they were shown on Saturdays in the UK) after Challenge cancelled them, basically saying they were to blame...even though it wasn't like they couldn't have negotiated them to show the episodes on the same day like what used to happen with Smackdown when it was on Thursdays.