Celgress
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Post by Celgress on Apr 30, 2010 20:31:02 GMT -5
I think we can all agree there is a worrying trend here.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Apr 30, 2010 20:46:45 GMT -5
I think we can all agree there is a worrying trend here. You'd be shocked by how many people can see hard numbers, in a downward trend, and still consider it "company growth".
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Post by Celgress on Apr 30, 2010 20:50:54 GMT -5
I think we can all agree there is a worrying trend here. You'd be shocked by how many people can see hard numbers, in a downward trend, and still consider it "company growth". Those same people likely can also see Satan's face in a head of lettuce.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2010 21:04:08 GMT -5
You'd be shocked by how many people can see hard numbers, in a downward trend, and still consider it "company growth". Those same people likely can also see Satan's face in a head of lettuce. Just because the Dark Lord gives me his bidding via heads of cabbage doesn't mean I'm crazy enough to think Impact's doing well.
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Post by Paul on Apr 30, 2010 21:34:36 GMT -5
Those same people likely can also see Satan's face in a head of lettuce. Just because the Dark Lord gives me his bidding via heads of cabbage doesn't mean I'm crazy enough to think Impact's doing well. Ha! Post of the year.
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Post by Celgress on Apr 30, 2010 21:51:15 GMT -5
Just because the Dark Lord gives me his bidding via heads of cabbage doesn't mean I'm crazy enough to think Impact's doing well. Ha! Post of the year. Indeed
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Post by Danimal on May 1, 2010 22:53:12 GMT -5
Go back to Thursdays, restarting the "Monday Night Wars" was just moronic. I can't believe folks that are supposed to be professionals are so damn stupid as to think it would work.
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Post by AriadosMan on May 2, 2010 15:30:50 GMT -5
On the other hand, Chubba got fired, so at least some good came out of the horrid Monday night ratings
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Post by hajimenoippo on May 2, 2010 17:23:30 GMT -5
I really hope they just do a second show on Thursdays instead of a replay. Nowadays they'll watch the first hour, and whatever they miss at 9 they'll watch on Thursday.
Really bad move,
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Post by Paul on May 2, 2010 17:41:25 GMT -5
This company is so screwed right now, and it's mostly their own fault.
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Post by Michael Coello on May 2, 2010 17:44:36 GMT -5
This company is so screwed right now, and it's mostly their own fault. It'd be screwed if they got 0.5 repeatedly over a few weeks. If they got one and bounced back the next week to 0.8-1.0, it's no cause for alarm. It's pretty much basing an entire plan on one issue, which seems to be a tradition in TNA ratings threads, to be honest.
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Post by ritt works hard fo da chickens on May 2, 2010 17:55:06 GMT -5
This company is so screwed right now, and it's mostly their own fault. It'd be screwed if they got 0.5 repeatedly over a few weeks. If they got one and bounced back the next week to 0.8-1.0, it's no cause for alarm. It's pretty much basing an entire plan on one issue, which seems to be a tradition in TNA ratings threads, to be honest. I remember when for years it seemed that the joke was that no matter what they did the ratings would stay at 1.1 ,now we are hoping to bounce back to .8 or 1.0, how can this be considered progress? The entire plan they have now is add Hogan, RVD, Flair, Hardy, etc. and become a threat to RAW. That clearly did not go the way they thought it would. After the initial tune in to see what was up they have consistently been sliding in ratings. Yes occasionally they bounce back to near their old normal numbers but when you add in the days they have less than half the audience they used to the average you are selling to sponsors is NOT an improvement. Dixie paid Bishoff/Hogan to make improvements.
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Post by Michael Coello on May 2, 2010 18:01:36 GMT -5
It'd be screwed if they got 0.5 repeatedly over a few weeks. If they got one and bounced back the next week to 0.8-1.0, it's no cause for alarm. It's pretty much basing an entire plan on one issue, which seems to be a tradition in TNA ratings threads, to be honest. I remember when for years it seemed that the joke was that no matter what they did the ratings would stay at 1.1 ,now we are hoping to bounce back to .8 or 1.0, how can this be considered progress? The entire plan they have now is add Hogan, RVD, Flair, Hardy, etc. and become a threat to RAW. That clearly did not go the way they thought it would. After the initial tune in to see what was up they have consistently been sliding in ratings. Yes occasionally they bounce back to near their old normal numbers but when you add in the days they have less than half the audience they used to the average you are selling to sponsors is NOT an improvement. Dixie paid Bishoff/Hogan to make improvements. The thing is, you can't call one rating a reason to call it in, like you can call that an improvement. Hell, people love to mention how ratings were before the move. See, I remember a few times how the rating would go from 1.0-1.1, and it would sometimes drop around the 0.8-0.9 range. here was usually some reason why the ratings weren't rising, and it usually corrected itself. The problem is back then, just like here, it was all about how TNA was doing something wrong and calling for the alarm even though the ratings would always return to the normal area. It seems like some people are doing what Bischoff was doing in WCW, living week to week, when you need more time and results before deciding on a course of action.
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Post by AriadosMan on May 2, 2010 18:22:21 GMT -5
We've had months of "results" now.
They've mostly been quite poor. 1.0s are very rare and far from the "domination" Hogan and Taz promised.
And the company, on some level, knows it ain't working. Why do you think they kept the Thurs. timeslot around after they supposedly claimed "Monday night is wrestling night"? And if you think they did bad against the RAW draft, how do you possibly think they'll compete with MNF when that starts up in the Fall? TNA's "invasion" has failed.
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Post by Michael Coello on May 2, 2010 18:34:40 GMT -5
We've had months of "results" now. They've mostly been quite poor. 1.0s are very rare and far from the "domination" Hogan and Taz promised. And the company, on some level, knows it ain't working. Why do you think they kept the Thurs. timeslot around after they supposedly claimed "Monday night is wrestling night"? And if you think they did bad against the RAW draft, how do you possibly think they'll compete with MNF when that starts up in the Fall? TNA's "invasion" has failed. And I think that THAT is what is the real problem here. Just cause one person, Hogan, said that, and even with almost the rest of the roster saying they were keeping realistic, it's the main point that gets driving in during the ratings threads.
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Post by GaTechGrad on May 2, 2010 21:02:51 GMT -5
One can argue that 1.63 million is on par with the highest viewership count that they ever got on Thursday night. If I remember correctly, that was the Angle/Sting empty arena episode, which drew approximately 1.8 million viewers. Some may view Monday night as a failure, but the overall TNA audience seems to still be there. (And yes, people can argue repeat Monday-Thursday night viewers till the cows come home, but we'll never actually know that figure)
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Post by Spudz on May 2, 2010 21:52:29 GMT -5
One can argue that 1.63 million is on par with the highest viewership count that they ever got on Thursday night. If I remember correctly, that was the Angle/Sting empty arena episode, which drew approximately 1.8 million viewers. Some may view Monday night as a failure, but the overall TNA audience seems to still be there. (And yes, people can argue repeat Monday-Thursday night viewers till the cows come home, but we'll never actually know that figure) After investing money on Hogan, Jeff Hardy and a few others TNA and SpikeTV shouldn't be happy that overall the audience numbers are nearly the same as they been for the past few years..
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Post by ritt works hard fo da chickens on May 2, 2010 22:23:21 GMT -5
One can argue that 1.63 million is on par with the highest viewership count that they ever got on Thursday night. If I remember correctly, that was the Angle/Sting empty arena episode, which drew approximately 1.8 million viewers. Some may view Monday night as a failure, but the overall TNA audience seems to still be there. (And yes, people can argue repeat Monday-Thursday night viewers till the cows come home, but we'll never actually know that figure) After investing money on Hogan, Jeff Hardy and a few others TNA and SpikeTV shouldn't be happy that overall the audience numbers are nearly the same as they been for the past few years.. The audience numbers are NOT the same. It now takes TWO prime time showings to make it about equal to what one prime time showing used to get. If you add in the viewers they got on replays they used to have too, the old scheduling will still dominate.
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Post by Celgress on May 2, 2010 22:53:07 GMT -5
Sinister I'm curious, did you happen to glimpse the Dark Lord's vestige in your salad this morning?
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Post by @TenaciousBe on May 3, 2010 7:13:50 GMT -5
They took the Tonight Show timeslot (and ultimately, the show) away from Conan after six months because of low ratings and everyone thinks he got screwed. Now people want to call for the same thing for TNA? Relax. Give it time. And all you people who seem to despise TNA's existence and clamor for the death rattle, please kindly move on and let those of us who do like the product enjoy it?
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