jstout Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 BIgfoot's comin' right for us, Ned! Blimey! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 I hope this is good news given all of the advertisers that included TNA on their DNA [Do Not Advertise] list. lol god damn It's still pretty mind blowing that there were advertisers who watched low budget ghost hunts, bigfoot shows and rednecks doing various redneck things who still saw TNA as a bridge too far. Yeah, that's what I can't get over. This is the network that TNA is too lowbrow for. Can't they just leave Bigfoot the fuck alone? That's what I hate about humanity. Say this amazing mythical creature actually does exist, you're first instinct is to kill him? The hell with them. I hope Bigfoot ate them all. Don't worry, as per clips I've seen on 'The Soup', they no more run into big foot than you are I did today. One episode featured people off-camera throwing branches at them as bigfoot attacking them. It's actually worse than it sounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Lord Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 I like how a low rent Duck Dynasty/crazy redneck show is okay, but Pro Wrestling is too low brow for an advertiser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 I honestly am getting to the point where, when comparing TNA's advertising dollars to WWE's, it's not a matter of pro wrestling being too low brow, but a pro wrestling company called motherfucking TNA (TNA!!!) run by the people it's run by being too low brow. The TNA name honestly probably sunk them more than anything, again, with the exception of mismanagement. They should have changed it to Impact Wrestling or ICW or IWF the day they picked up Hogan and Flair, if not Angle, Christian, Booker, and the Dudleys way back when (not taking anything away from the indy/homegrown stars, but those guys were names in 2005/2006 and it actually did seem like somewhat a turning of the tide). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligerbusa Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 On the upside, at least they are the still on the Fight Network, a network that no longer airs such hoi polloi programming as So You Wanna Fight and Lithuanian honey wrestling. They've never been the same since they dropped Japanese Cat Fights. Naughty Girls! Nananananaaa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 So the newest member of Team TNA is Gabe as he has been a huge shill for IMPACT in the last couple days. I mean I guess I shouldn't be too surprised given he can't be a huge supporter of Ring of Honor and Gabe is building his product on guys like TJ Perkins, Drew Galloway, and apparently Davey Richards again. But the idea that he has decided to be this in the tank for TNA when the iceberg is right in front of the Titanic is just weird iMPACT is actually pretty good since moving to DA. I mean it's not perfect but they have a pretty good roster right now and the writing is good, at least by TNA standards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biz Smarkie Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 TNA actually put on one of the top 10 matches of the year(Spud/EC3), When's the last time that could be said about them? Has there actually been a time when that could be said about them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn411 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Go back and watch the monthly ppv from 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyMax46 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Lockdown 2008 was probably the last good TNA PPV from what I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Jeff Jarrett gave a short interview here:http://csrwrestling....th-jeff-jarrett and during the word association part at the end he's asked about Dixie Carter: Dixie Carter- “Great Family, Not a very nice lady.” That's been updated: ”After further review of the audio, we now believe Mr. Jarrett’s actual comments were, “Great family. Nice, very nice lady.” Something about THE YEH-TAY is what I heard. Joe Koff comes off pretty cocksuckerish in all of this. Both Sinclair and DA are located in Maryland. TV executive shenanigans. It's hilarious how everybody laughed at TNA for being on DA but ROH gets on the same channel and everybody laughs at TNA. All of the signage for Impact says 'Impact Wrestling' with the TNA logo only appearing in graphics during title matches and the copyright notice at the end and on the physical championship belts themselves. So 'TNA' doesn't cost them anything. Just being pro wrestling costs them. There's also TV networks being generally lazy and ad sales probably didn't try much harder than asking the advertisers from their other programming if they wanted to buy units on TNA and getting turned down and throwing in the towel. WWE's ad rates suck too. The WWE programming is kept around because the ratings bring the network averages up which improves ad rates for NBCUniversal's more desirable programs. DA started them on Friday night and Saturday morning. Probably the two worst timeslots to appeal to the demos that would watch pro wrestling. Being on Wednesday night should get them another hundred thousand viewers just by virtue of not being on Friday night. Really a Thursday night block could move some ad units for new movies debuting on Friday. Better replay dates would be late Saturday night/early Sunday morning or late Monday night so they could piggyback off of Raw and move some ads for new media/video games on Tuesdays. Hogan used to complain about Spike because he couldn't find it in his hotel and someone at TNA really should've shut him up because Spike's usually included in basic cable packages and hotels aren't Nielsen voters. If he were still around and complained about DA he wouldn't sound like a total idiot for a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 TNA going on DA was a huge step down in terms of both prestige and market penetration. ROH, not so much. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 ROH used to be on HDNet. I suppose DA is pretty comparable to AXS in terms of carriage and coverage but there's no porpoise slapping on DA. THE HOG > Psychic Bigfoot 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky Blue Sam Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 My local indy ran two shows today, with Kenny King appearing on both. To my utter shock, not only were a few people wearing Beat Down Clan t-shirts, but King was greeted with a "BDC" chant on each show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 ROH used to be on HDNet. I suppose DA is pretty comparable to AXS in terms of carriage and coverage but there's no porpoise slapping on DA. THE HOG > Psychic Bigfoot That's not really fair, though, because THE HOG~! > a whole damn lot of things. TNA could've been saved all this trouble if they'd kept Cody Deaner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTTW Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 DA started them on Friday night and Saturday morning. Probably the two worst timeslots to appeal to the demos that would watch pro wrestling. I know the networks dropped cartoons on Saturday because the kids aren't watching cartoons anymore, but did the Saturday morning kid audience just die completely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Saturday morning is where they put the federally mandated educational/instructional programming. They killed cartoons because live action stuff is cheaper to produce, and they'd already cut back on the hours because paid programming makes more money than a lot of stuff they run on Saturday/Sunday morning/afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Remember, before he killed WCW, jamie kellner killed Kids WB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGFanJay Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 DA started them on Friday night and Saturday morning. Probably the two worst timeslots to appeal to the demos that would watch pro wrestling. I know the networks dropped cartoons on Saturday because the kids aren't watching cartoons anymore, but did the Saturday morning kid audience just die completely? No - actually, the Saturday numbers were fantastic. They were literally too good and DA decided that they were somehow hurting Friday numbers, so they moved all of the other programming to bizarre timeslots with no notice. Somehow, this strategy failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Remember, before he killed WCW, jamie kellner killed Kids WB.During the advent of digital recording he also accused people using it of stealing because they weren't watching the commercials. Real visionary. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyMax46 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I'm not defending WCW because that company would have gone out of business anyways, but Jamie Kellner seems like a real piece of work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 He also canceled Classic Black & White on the cartoon network. I'm not a fan of his. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 So many places to post this Found out here about this. I joined DVDVR in September 2005 and have to say this is one of my favourite threads, especially from RIPPA's post on with reactions to the news. Legit LOL's. Shame there's a like limit. Apparently TNA is holding an emergency conference call for their talent this afternoon Are we sure the TNA office can use a phone? $20 says they accidentally dial the CEO of Discovery and Dixie calls his wife a cunt on the call. I can picture it now: Davey reviving someone, anxiously awaiting a response to see if they're okay, only to get a garbled, "Have you seen that suplex gif? The fuck were you thinking?" Or "Oh god! I've died and gone to wrestling hell! I'm going to be stuck watching Davey Richards vs. Davey Richards in a Steel Davey Richards for all of eternity!" If I'm ever in a serious accident, I want treated by Davey. Seriously, when's the last time someone in a Davey Richards match got pinned by the first finisher? I figure, with Davey working on me, I'm good for 4 or 5 kickouts at 2 or 2.9. Hell, if all else fails, Davey can probably revive me with fighting spirit. 'Cause paramedicing is serios bizness!!!!! Bravo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Saturday morning is where they put the federally mandated educational/instructional programming. They killed cartoons because live action stuff is cheaper to produce, and they'd already cut back on the hours because paid programming makes more money than a lot of stuff they run on Saturday/Sunday morning/afternoon. What else killed cartoons was the law that was passed (too lazy to look it up) that mandated that cartoons couldn't just be thinly-disguised half hour toy commercials. I mourn for my youth of G.I. Joe, Transformers, He-man, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 There's a law mandating that? That's a load of bullshit, some of my favorite cartoons were "half hour toy commercials". Oh, and haven't said it in a while, but fuck Jamie Kellner. I hope he's out of the TV business because he killed off a lot of cool stuff (not including WCW in that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 There's a law mandating that? That's a load of bullshit, some of my favorite cartoons were "half hour toy commercials". Just like radio stations air that one hour of random programming at 7 am on Sunday mornings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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