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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jan 2, 2022 20:44:46 GMT -5
Meltzer shared this info in his Daily Update and I thought it would be cool to post here. It's the recent cases of wrestling shows switching channels and the immediate effect it had on their viewership:
- 9/25/00 Raw moves from USA (last show 6,940,000 viewers) to TNN (first show 7,110,000 viewers)
- 10/3/05 Raw moves from Spike (last show 4,020,000 viewers) to USA (first show 5,569,000 viewers)
- 10/3/08 Smackdown moves from CW (4,411,000 viewers) to My Network (3,160,000)
- 10/1/10 Smackdown moves from My Network (2,770,000) to Syfy (2,520,000)
- 1/7/15 Impact moves from Spike (980,000) to Destination America (359,000)
- 1/5/16 Impact moves from Destination America (155,000) to Pop TV (255,000)
- 1/7/16 Smackdown moves from Syfy (2,284,000) to USA (2,757,000)
- 10/4/19 Smackdown moves from USA (2,099,000) to FOX (3,888,000)
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Post by Dave the Dave on Jan 2, 2022 20:59:12 GMT -5
Interesting for me personally on the RAW switch, I don’t think it had to with the channels, but RAW’s run on Spike is the only time I didn’t really watch any wrestling.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Jan 2, 2022 21:05:39 GMT -5
Interesting numbers here. I guess a big factor is how big or well known is the channel. You can see this with Impact moving from Spike to Destination America to PopTV, bitchin'! Also if the channel is basic cable/higher cable tiers/ or free tv. One thing you have to give WWE is they know how to promote when they move to a new channel.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jan 2, 2022 22:04:55 GMT -5
It's honestly mind blowing that Impact lost almost 2/3 of their audience basically overnight. Over 600K people who just stopped watching the product.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2022 22:31:33 GMT -5
It's honestly mind blowing that Impact lost almost 2/3 of their audience basically overnight. Over 600K people who just stopped watching the product. It also say alot about how much changes in 6 years when TNA 1.1 rating is now view as a good thing. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2022 2:07:27 GMT -5
He left off Impact moving to AXS.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 3, 2022 2:54:26 GMT -5
I mean, ok. I'm Canadian. They switched from TSN to Sportsnet. It's like 10 channels down.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 3, 2022 8:07:55 GMT -5
A super old school example would be the WWF being on WOR-TV for the longest time in the NYC market, then gradually switching over to the Fox stations (WNYW 5 here).
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Post by fg on Jan 3, 2022 11:40:37 GMT -5
I believe that happened the fall of 1987. I remember becoming a fan by switching channels on Saturday morning and seeing this and I became a fan. I can’t remember the first wrestler I saw though. I distinctly remember watching them during XMas 87 & XMas 88.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jan 3, 2022 14:53:27 GMT -5
I mean, ok. I'm Canadian. They switched from TSN to Sportsnet. It's like 10 channels down. Yeah, and the only reason Raw ever left TSN was them getting Monday Night Football in 2006. Smackdown has always been on The Score/Sportsnet 360 Which actually leads me to something Meltzer does which annoys me, he always just lists the Sportsnet rating but for most of its existence Smackdown has been available on American networks that are available either on basic cable or farmer vision depending on where you live. You used to be able to get Fox Rochester without cable for example. |
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Post by jimmyjames on Jan 3, 2022 15:55:14 GMT -5
It's honestly mind blowing that Impact lost almost 2/3 of their audience basically overnight. Over 600K people who just stopped watching the product. I think that's more about how few people had the Bigfoot Channel. On the old TNA board here when the change was announced the majority of the regulars reported they didn't have the channel. Luckily I was one of the few that did. |
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Jan 3, 2022 15:57:30 GMT -5
He left off Impact moving to AXS. I don't know if he left it off so much as the data for one side of it or the other wasn't available to him. |
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jan 3, 2022 15:58:17 GMT -5
It's honestly mind blowing that Impact lost almost 2/3 of their audience basically overnight. Over 600K people who just stopped watching the product. I think that's more about how few people had the Bigfoot Channel. On the old TNA board here when the change was announced the majority of the regulars reported they didn't have the channel. Luckily I was one of the few that did. Oh yeah, that's definitely why. It just shows how much a company depends on being on a decent channel. |
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 4, 2022 3:46:08 GMT -5
It's honestly mind blowing that Impact lost almost 2/3 of their audience basically overnight. Over 600K people who just stopped watching the product. I think that's more about how few people had the Bigfoot Channel. On the old TNA board here when the change was announced the majority of the regulars reported they didn't have the channel. Luckily I was one of the few that did. Luckily? |
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Post by Hypnosis on Jan 4, 2022 19:08:34 GMT -5
I think that's more about how few people had the Bigfoot Channel. On the old TNA board here when the change was announced the majority of the regulars reported they didn't have the channel. Luckily I was one of the few that did. Luckily? The Friday 10 PM Eastern time slot was also terrible, and the non-Impact shows on the Pursuit Channel were indeed bad. I think there were also times when Pursuit would mistakenly air the previous week's episode more than once. |
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Post by bob on Jan 4, 2022 19:12:39 GMT -5
It's honestly mind blowing that Impact lost almost 2/3 of their audience basically overnight. Over 600K people who just stopped watching the product. all because Dixie emailed Spike executives telling them they were dumbasses |
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 4, 2022 19:21:15 GMT -5
The Friday 10 PM Eastern time slot was also terrible, and the non-Impact shows on the Pursuit Channel were indeed bad. I think there were also times when Pursuit would mistakenly air the previous week's episode more than once. I meant luckily question mark as in is it lucky to be able to watch Impact. |
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Post by Hypnosis on Jan 4, 2022 19:41:23 GMT -5
The Friday 10 PM Eastern time slot was also terrible, and the non-Impact shows on the Pursuit Channel were indeed bad. I think there were also times when Pursuit would mistakenly air the previous week's episode more than once. I meant luckily question mark as in is it lucky to be able to watch Impact. Dixie was actually gone from Impact by that time, if that's what you meant.  |
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Post by fg on Apr 2, 2024 11:36:11 GMT -5
It's honestly mind blowing that Impact lost almost 2/3 of their audience basically overnight. Over 600K people who just stopped watching the product. all because Dixie emailed Spike executives telling them they were dumbasses And Dixie ISN’T? |
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Apr 2, 2024 14:08:01 GMT -5
I forgot all about SmackDown’s My Network TV era.
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