Reed Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 To say the honeymoon between regarding Destination America and TNA is over is an understatement. It’s is not a secret within the Destination America company that they are regretting making the deal, which is why all the shoulder programs that were supposed to be part of the deal are now gone. I’m not sure the reasons, as the ratings are way above the network average, but when you watch the show, the ads don’t look impressive and it was a multi-million dollar commitment. -WON You know things are bad when even the people who gave PSYCHIC BIGFOOT~! a show don't think you're good enough for them. 1
Reed Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 'PSYCHIC BIGFOOT' is what I will name my grunge band if I ever start one. 1
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 Hopefully they bring in the World Champion BBQ Pitmaster. That takes care of catering and the advertising. 1
Bustronaut Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 Dixie will bring in Takeru Kobayashi after misremembering a conversation with someone about the greatest Japanese wrestlers of all time.
Nice Guy Eddie Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 Dixie will bring in Takeru Kobayashi after misremembering a conversation with someone about the greatest Japanese wrestlers of all time. Kobayashi vs. Joey Chestnuts in an eating competition in the Impact Zone.
Reed Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 You know Psychic Bigfoot could have told Destination America before they even signed the deal that the TNA thing wasn't going to pan out. He knew. He always knows. 7
Hooker Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 Well, they'd have to find psychic Bigfoot first, but for some reason, he's never in the place they look.
cool arrow Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 I may well be having a psychotic break here, but I could swear Kobayashi worked a Hustle show a few years ago.
Web Conn Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 Theres nothing on YouTube or Cage Match that supports that he did. Nothing on his Wikipedia page either.
Reed Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 I'll be honest I'll believe Psychic Bigfoot truly exists before I believe TNA are ever going to turn things around.
Reed Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 Seriously though: It's hard to feel sorry for Destination America here. They could have researched TNA before signing the deal. They could have talked to Spike. Or any wrestling journalist. Or anyone in wrestling. Or even spent a few hours on one of the TNA threads on here. And what would they have learned? Basically: TNA will probably do OKish ratings, but the company is a mess, Dixie Carter is incompetent and they are never going to get beyond a certain level. Instead they apparently signed this deal thinking Impact would do amazing things for them. Far be it from me to tell a TV executive to how to do his job, but you think you'd do a google search on something before investing literally millions and millions of dollars into it. I guess they were too busy with mind-controlling monsters, BBQ and evil Amish ghosts to think about this shit.
Victator Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 One of the few times TNA is completely in the right. They have brought in ratings and got eyes on a shitty fly by night channel. At the very least TNA brought the network average up.
Reed Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 In fairness to TNA, I had never even heard of Destination America before all this and now I genuinely want to watch some of their shows. Particularly Ghost Stalkers.
nate Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 In fairness to TNA, I had never even heard of Destination America before all this and now I genuinely want to watch some of their shows. Particularly Ghost Stalkers. That's confusing; are the ghosts doing the stalking or are they the ones being stalked?
Spritenaut 32 Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 Seriously though: It's hard to feel sorry for Destination America here. They could have researched TNA before signing the deal. They could have talked to Spike. Or any wrestling journalist. Or anyone in wrestling. Or even spent a few hours on one of the TNA threads on here. And what would they have learned? Basically: TNA will probably do OKish ratings, but the company is a mess, Dixie Carter is incompetent and they are never going to get beyond a certain level. Instead they apparently signed this deal thinking Impact would do amazing things for them. Far be it from me to tell a TV executive to how to do his job, but you think you'd do a google search on something before investing literally millions and millions of dollars into it. I guess they were too busy with mind-controlling monsters, BBQ and evil Amish ghosts to think about this shit. From what Meltzer has written, I think the issues are that DA believed a much larger portion of TNA's Spike audience would follow them to the channel, and that DA hoped the show would lure better advertisers. It sounds like it's the same thing that has done Smackdown in with a couple networks. The show is attracting more viewers than the network's other shows, but the rights fee is much larger and the advertising revenue isn't what they hoped. The general complaint against wrestling shows isn't that they don't attract viewers. It's that those viewers don't stay for the station's other shows, and the viewer demographics don't appeal to advertisers (or the advertiser doesn't want to be associated with wrestling). Thus, you sell ads but you don't attract the most desirable advertisers and you end up charging less for the ads you do sell. Ad spots during wrestling shows generally sell for less than an ad on a mainstream show with the same number of total viewers. It's a very soft market, apparently.
Matt D Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 It's hard to look at Corgan too harshly when he leads with Jerry Blackwell
MGFanJay Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 Apparently Dixie told Austin she's so mad about news leaks she's considering subjecting employees to lie detector tests to find out who's talking. This is the most amazing thing ever and I want it filmed and put on an episode of iMPACT. Dixie Carter truly is a woman who would spend $1 million to find out the answer to the $10,000 question.
Technico Support Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 In fairness to TNA, I had never even heard of Destination America before all this and now I genuinely want to watch some of their shows. Particularly Ghost Stalkers. That's confusing; are the ghosts doing the stalking or are they the ones being stalked? 1
Skeeball Wizard Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 In fairness to TNA, I had never even heard of Destination America before all this and now I genuinely want to watch some of their shows. Particularly Ghost Stalkers. Afterlife Barry Windham cosplay. 1
Spritenaut 32 Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 In fairness to TNA, I had never even heard of Destination America before all this and now I genuinely want to watch some of their shows. Particularly Ghost Stalkers. That's confusing; are the ghosts doing the stalking or are they the ones being stalked? Neither. The show is a comedy about six single friends who hang out on a coffee shop together. 1
cool arrow Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 Well, no wonder DA does squat in the ratings. Who the hell would want to watch that?
Big Fresh Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 Who says it's a world champion wrestler? Maybe it's that japanese guy who always wins the hot dog eating competitions. 7
Spritenaut 32 Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 It's great that that's his real hair and it still looks like a bad photoshop. 1
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