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Post by metylerca on Apr 28, 2010 17:54:23 GMT -5
Idk... maybe they got the math wrong. Maybe someone put the decimal in the wrong place. Being honest though, as shocking as the .6 rating they got before was, this trumps it in each and every way. I figured .6 was just a real off week to never happen again. And then this happens, and just wow. . . If I was working for TNA, I'd be feeling a little antsy right about now. Why? If the move to Mondays really starts hurting them they'll just move back to Thursdays. I don't mean it as in they'll go out of business or anything like that, no. But I'm sure you'll agree that the moment they turn around and go back to Thursdays for their first run programming that the company will have egg on its face for even trying to go head to head with WWE's A show. After all, this was supposed to be a big deal, according to many, and it turned out to be a terrible decision for TNA to go to Mondays when they clearly weren't ready; as shown by the ratings.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2010 17:54:36 GMT -5
Idk... maybe they got the math wrong. Maybe someone put the decimal in the wrong place. Being honest though, as shocking as the .6 rating they got before was, this trumps it in each and every way. I figured .6 was just a real off week to never happen again. And then this happens, and just wow. . . If I was working for TNA, I'd be feeling a little antsy right about now. Why? If the move to Mondays really starts hurting them they'll just move back to Thursdays. Unless you were the guy who said or all the people who agreed with the guy who said: "We should pay tons of cash for Hogan and Flair, move to Monday nights and go live, because we'll definitely be able to hold our own against RAW." That guy should be feeling antsy right about now. If they move back to Thursday's - someone will get hung out to dry - that's just the corporate side of things.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Apr 28, 2010 18:01:41 GMT -5
Idk... maybe they got the math wrong. Maybe someone put the decimal in the wrong place. Being honest though, as shocking as the .6 rating they got before was, this trumps it in each and every way. I figured .6 was just a real off week to never happen again. And then this happens, and just wow. . . If I was working for TNA, I'd be feeling a little antsy right about now. Why? If the move to Mondays really starts hurting them they'll just move back to Thursdays. But they would have already hurt their Thursday audience -- the days of Thursday getting the same 0.9 - 1.0 rating without question are gone and they will have to rebuild their brand on Thursday Nights. Such a mess. A lot of things don't make sense to me... but it's TNA. It's what they do best.
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Post by donners on Apr 28, 2010 19:29:00 GMT -5
If they can still pull a .7 for a replay on a Thursday, then I presume that the extra handful of viewers who only watch on Monday at the moment will be able to bring them back to that 1.0 or so.
Whether that covers the vast increase in costs under the Hogan/Bischoff era is another matter.
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Post by erisi236 on Apr 28, 2010 20:02:46 GMT -5
TNA needs an intervention.
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Post by Lancers on Apr 28, 2010 21:08:41 GMT -5
The Golden Girls episode where Blanche dates a paraplegic did a better rating. Although to be fair, it is a different demographic. Maybe TNA needs to starts going after older women and the gay community.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Apr 28, 2010 21:53:56 GMT -5
I don't understand something. The only people who knew that Impact was taped are "the geeks on the internet". And Uncle Eric has told me they're worthless and make up less than 0.00001% of TNA's audience. So surely this can't affect the ratings. Well Uncle Eric is thinking in 98 terms. These days the majority of the people have the internet. If your a fan of wrestling chances are you go to the federation site. Which there it doesn't take a much to figure out when a show is tapped. How hard is it to look on the home page of TNA's site. Which they have there schedule of event listed. I see one monday there at the impact zone. The next monday go figure no date but a show is going to air. Now someone posted the ratings differnce from a live to to a tape show. Which proved my point that I made that yeah tape shows does effect the ratings. Because we live in a technology basic world. Regardless what people say. Most wrestling fans at less go to the federation that likes website.
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Post by ritt works hard fo da chickens on Apr 28, 2010 22:22:41 GMT -5
Ok here is the analogy I used. TNA got a machine you put a dollar in and turned a crank and then a lot of pennies fell out. At first they got like 80 to 90 pennies, but then with a few tweaks and after the machine loosened up a bit they started getting 108 then 109 then averaging 110 to sometimes maybe even 120 shiny shiny pennies. Then one day this guy rides into town saying how he made a machine once spit out golden nuggets and drunken hookers. He can make your machine do this too, because lets face it your playing in pennies chump. You will never get ahead playing with pennies. So he turns your machine sideways spray paints it red and yellow and tells you to put a ten dollar bill in. You do and you get 22 nickles and a gear falls out from inside. He says try it again, and you give me another ten. You do and you get 12 nickles and a strange washer. He tells you he did everything right your machine must be broke, but before your machine was actually being productive and building towards something. Well now your machine is messed up and won't take one dollar bills anymore without spending more to fix it, so what can you do? Do you keep feeding the beast hoping for gold and hookers or do you cut your losses and right the damn machine and try to get back to what was working to slowly but surely being productive.
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Post by kropotkin on Apr 28, 2010 22:33:31 GMT -5
Wrestling Observer.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Apr 28, 2010 22:35:23 GMT -5
Ok here is the analogy I used. TNA got a machine you put a dollar in and turned a crank and then a lot of pennies fell out. At first they got like 80 to 90 pennies, but then with a few tweaks and after the machine loosened up a bit they started getting 108 then 109 then averaging 110 to sometimes maybe even 120 shiny shiny pennies. Then one day this guy rides into town saying how he made a machine once spit out golden nuggets and drunken hookers. He can make your machine do this too, because lets face it your playing in pennies chump. You will never get ahead playing with pennies. So he turns your machine sideways spray paints it red and yellow and tells you to put a ten dollar bill in. You do and you get 22 nickles and a gear falls out from inside. He says try it again, and you give me another ten. You do and you get 12 nickles and a strange washer. He tells you he did everything right your machine must be broke, but before your machine was actually being productive and building towards something. Well now your machine is messed up and won't take one dollar bills anymore without spending more to fix it, so what can you do? Do you keep feeding the beast hoping for gold and hookers or do you cut your losses and right the damn machine and try to get back to what was working to slowly but surely being productive. What the hell are you rambling about?
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Post by N E O G E O B O Y S on Apr 28, 2010 22:41:52 GMT -5
The Golden Girls episode where Blanche dates a paraplegic did a better rating. Although to be fair, it is a different demographic. Maybe TNA needs to starts going after older women and the gay community.
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Post by Lancers on Apr 29, 2010 0:07:30 GMT -5
Ok here is the analogy I used. TNA got a machine you put a dollar in and turned a crank and then a lot of pennies fell out. At first they got like 80 to 90 pennies, but then with a few tweaks and after the machine loosened up a bit they started getting 108 then 109 then averaging 110 to sometimes maybe even 120 shiny shiny pennies. Then one day this guy rides into town saying how he made a machine once spit out golden nuggets and drunken hookers. He can make your machine do this too, because lets face it your playing in pennies chump. You will never get ahead playing with pennies. So he turns your machine sideways spray paints it red and yellow and tells you to put a ten dollar bill in. You do and you get 22 nickles and a gear falls out from inside. He says try it again, and you give me another ten. You do and you get 12 nickles and a strange washer. He tells you he did everything right your machine must be broke, but before your machine was actually being productive and building towards something. Well now your machine is messed up and won't take one dollar bills anymore without spending more to fix it, so what can you do? Do you keep feeding the beast hoping for gold and hookers or do you cut your losses and right the damn machine and try to get back to what was working to slowly but surely being productive. So in your analogy, Scott Hall and Sean Waltman are the drunken hookers?
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 29, 2010 1:14:15 GMT -5
Ok here is the analogy I used. TNA got a machine you put a dollar in and turned a crank and then a lot of pennies fell out. At first they got like 80 to 90 pennies, but then with a few tweaks and after the machine loosened up a bit they started getting 108 then 109 then averaging 110 to sometimes maybe even 120 shiny shiny pennies. Then one day this guy rides into town saying how he made a machine once spit out golden nuggets and drunken hookers. He can make your machine do this too, because lets face it your playing in pennies chump. You will never get ahead playing with pennies. So he turns your machine sideways spray paints it red and yellow and tells you to put a ten dollar bill in. You do and you get 22 nickles and a gear falls out from inside. He says try it again, and you give me another ten. You do and you get 12 nickles and a strange washer. He tells you he did everything right your machine must be broke, but before your machine was actually being productive and building towards something. Well now your machine is messed up and won't take one dollar bills anymore without spending more to fix it, so what can you do? Do you keep feeding the beast hoping for gold and hookers or do you cut your losses and right the damn machine and try to get back to what was working to slowly but surely being productive. So in your analogy, Scott Hall and Sean Waltman are the drunken hookers? Why are you trying to ruin such a beautiful concept as drunken hookers?
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Post by ritt works hard fo da chickens on Apr 29, 2010 12:05:30 GMT -5
Ok here is the analogy I used. TNA got a machine you put a dollar in and turned a crank and then a lot of pennies fell out. At first they got like 80 to 90 pennies, but then with a few tweaks and after the machine loosened up a bit they started getting 108 then 109 then averaging 110 to sometimes maybe even 120 shiny shiny pennies. Then one day this guy rides into town saying how he made a machine once spit out golden nuggets and drunken hookers. He can make your machine do this too, because lets face it your playing in pennies chump. You will never get ahead playing with pennies. So he turns your machine sideways spray paints it red and yellow and tells you to put a ten dollar bill in. You do and you get 22 nickles and a gear falls out from inside. He says try it again, and you give me another ten. You do and you get 12 nickles and a strange washer. He tells you he did everything right your machine must be broke, but before your machine was actually being productive and building towards something. Well now your machine is messed up and won't take one dollar bills anymore without spending more to fix it, so what can you do? Do you keep feeding the beast hoping for gold and hookers or do you cut your losses and right the damn machine and try to get back to what was working to slowly but surely being productive. What the hell are you rambling about? Tna had a machine. It worked fine and turned a small profit. They decided a small profit wasn't good enough so they retooled the machine at a high cost and are making less money each time they run the machine. Yet somehow this is progress. EDIT- Well they can get there original profits apparently by running the machine twice. Also fitting Hall and Waltman in there wasn't my intent, but bravo to you Mr. Lancers.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2010 12:31:42 GMT -5
FACT: If Spike TV optioned re-runs of Life Unexpected and put it in TNA's timeslot - they would have gotten more viewers.
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Post by Natalya's Ass Fanboy on Apr 29, 2010 13:09:41 GMT -5
From 411 Mania... I would think that as long as TNA's average can stay at or above Spike TV's average, that they'll be fine.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2010 13:11:32 GMT -5
From 411 Mania... I would think that as long as TNA's average can stay at or above Spike TV's average, that they'll be fine. I would think if they could be double SpikeTV's average on Thursday by getting 1.2 they'd be finer than Scott Steiner.
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Post by AriadosMan on Apr 29, 2010 16:27:07 GMT -5
From 411 Mania... I would think that as long as TNA's average can stay at or above Spike TV's average, that they'll be fine. I would think if they could be double SpikeTV's average on Thursday by getting 1.2 they'd be finer than Scott Steiner. And I think its hee-larious that the IMPACT replay on Thurs. gets higher ratings than IMPACT on Mondays. The people in charge of TNA now should have their MBA's revoked from wherever the hell they got them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2010 17:20:45 GMT -5
I still maintain that the, "Monday is for wrestling!" idea makes no sense. It's like saying that comedies should only air on Thursdays because the Cosby Show did so well.
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Post by AriadosMan on Apr 29, 2010 17:25:06 GMT -5
I still maintain that the, "Monday is for wrestling!" idea makes no sense. It's like saying that comedies should only air on Thursdays because the Cosby Show did so well. And I agree with you, although that didn't stop NBC from claiming its Thurs. lineup was "Must-See TV" long after the "Must-See" programs stopped airing on it. The show makes the timeslot, not the other way around.
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