Why I think TNA Impact will last longer on Pop than DA

[Doogie Bowser, MD]

Pop TV has the most hilariously decrepit TV schedule I've ever seen.

Now, nothing is going to stop TNA from imploding within (and that won't ever really happen until Mom & Pop Carter derail the money train), but given how little other programming Pop has, I suspect they're in this for the long haul, which is a far different climate than the one at DA, where Discovery was all but looking for a reason to dump Impact inside of the first two-three months.

It's a truly awful show with terrible production values, an awful commentary team, and a severe need for a new setup (and venue), but we're probably suck with it for a while.

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The POPTV executives probably don't even get the channel to critique things so as long as Dixie doesn't send any stupid cc's to the President they should be good........never mind, they're pretty much f***ed.

[Welfare Willis]

It's not like Destination America had great programming with such shows as "Redneck ghost hunt", "Batsquatch Dance Party", and "Who wants a full set of teeth?", but I actually agree with you. My only exception is Dixie manages to screw up her relationship with network execs like she did with Spike and Destination America. Maybe should could spend daddy's money on how to use e-mail.

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Eh, there are really two potential scenarios here, and neither is good for TNA.

One is if they're being paid by the network directly unlike their other shows. If that's the case, then the network's probably going to very quickly get fed up with the fact they can't outdraw random reruns of shows they're actually profiting off of and drop them first chance they get.

The other is if they're paying for their TV time like the others are. If that's the case, they're going to have an even harder time attracting advertisers than they did on DA given their numbers so far are lower than they were there, and it'd be unlikely even before they'd make enough money from ads to keep themselves afloat given wrestling does not draw with advertisers which is the reason DA cut them to begin with.

So really, either Pop drops them, or Pop keeps them around so long as they can foot the bill, and with the tightened purse strings either the Carters pay for that and trim the fat even more elsewhere to where the roster has like fifteen people on it or they just get fed up and drop it. Either way there's not a scenario here where things will work out well for TNA.

[Mayonnaise]

Since they are splitting ad money, if TNA lands on a DNA list again, and they will, they'll be done. Really unless TNA can somehow draw in some decent advertisers to split the cash with Pop, I cannot see them last more than a year. Those shows they have now, they may not be amazing, but they're cheap and probably draw a decent ad dollar.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Jan 7, 2016 23:47:52 GMT -5 Mayonnaise said:

Since they are splitting ad money, if TNA lands on a DNA list again, and they will, they'll be done. Really unless TNA can somehow draw in some decent advertisers to split the cash with Pop, I cannot see them last more than a year. Those shows they have now, they may not be amazing, but they're cheap and probably draw a decent ad dollar.

Who's gonna want to advertise a show where a hobo fights a one legged man?

[Doogie Bowser, MD]

Jan 7, 2016 23:41:57 GMT -5 Welfare Willis said:

It's not like Destination America had great programming with such shows as "Redneck ghost hunt", "Batsquatch Dance Party", and "Who wants a full set of teeth?", but I actually agree with you. 

DA certainly is no mecca of fine television (if anything, it is Discovery Networks trying to out-CMT CMT with repulsive trailer park/hillbilly garbage), but Pop's picking get really slim after Impact and soap opera reruns. 

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Jan 8, 2016 0:36:49 GMT -5 Doogie Bowser, MD said:

Jan 7, 2016 23:41:57 GMT -5 Welfare Willis said:

It's not like Destination America had great programming with such shows as "Redneck ghost hunt", "Batsquatch Dance Party", and "Who wants a full set of teeth?", but I actually agree with you. 

DA certainly is no mecca of fine television (if anything, it is Discovery Networks trying to out-CMT CMT with repulsive trailer park/hillbilly garbage), but Pop's picking get really slim after Impact and soap opera reruns. 

On that note, I can't even tell what the hell CMT is supposed to be anymore. I get there's really no money in doing nothing but music videos in the Youtube generation, and modern country music is absolutely godawful anyway and probably something of a turnoff to the probably older audience a music channel would have nowadays, but at least with MTV or VH1, there's kind of a theme and a unified feel to the kinds of weird non-music shit they play. CMT just seems like they just air any show they get the rights to, regardless of how little it has to do with what's ostensibly their theme.

[Doogie Bowser, MD]

Jan 8, 2016 0:43:31 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Jan 8, 2016 0:36:49 GMT -5 Doogie Bowser, MD said:

DA certainly is no mecca of fine television (if anything, it is Discovery Networks trying to out-CMT CMT with repulsive trailer park/hillbilly garbage), but Pop's picking get really slim after Impact and soap opera reruns. 

On that note, I can't even tell what the hell CMT is supposed to be anymore. I get there's really no money in doing nothing but music videos in the Youtube generation, and modern country music is absolutely godawful anyway and probably something of a turnoff to the probably older audience a music channel would have nowadays, but at least with MTV or VH1, there's kind of a theme and a unified feel to the kinds of weird non-music shit they play. CMT just seems like they just air any show they get the rights to, regardless of how little it has to do with what's ostensibly their theme.

CMT is the "sanitized" version of MTV for fly-over country.

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I'm going to miss all the goofy Bigfoot and BBQ commercials.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Jan 8, 2016 0:43:31 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Jan 8, 2016 0:36:49 GMT -5 Doogie Bowser, MD said:

DA certainly is no mecca of fine television (if anything, it is Discovery Networks trying to out-CMT CMT with repulsive trailer park/hillbilly garbage), but Pop's picking get really slim after Impact and soap opera reruns. 

On that note, I can't even tell what the hell CMT is supposed to be anymore. I get there's really no money in doing nothing but music videos in the Youtube generation, and modern country music is absolutely godawful anyway and probably something of a turnoff to the probably older audience a music channel would have nowadays, but at least with MTV or VH1, there's kind of a theme and a unified feel to the kinds of weird non-music shit they play. CMT just seems like they just air any show they get the rights to, regardless of how little it has to do with what's ostensibly their theme.

Reba fits with their theme, and is the only damn reason I'll turn to that channel.