Pete Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 13 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said: Back to the circling drain: TNA cancelled their tapings for 6/16 & 6/17 because they can't afford them. They run out of material for Pop on 7/5. Ms. Carter says she expects to have investors or a buyer lined up by then so they can continue business as usual. (lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 BTW - TNA has one of their taped PPVs coming out tomorrow I like how they don't even promote them anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 5 hours ago, Pete said: The Nazi's decided trying to exterminate "inferior" races again was a better idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 20, 2016 Author Share Posted May 20, 2016 Just to clarify on a couple of points - here is what Dave wrote in the most recent WON Quote Movement has been slow regarding any deals to influx new money to the company, nor have any of the key people been signed to the new deals they’ve tried to get them to sign. The good news is they are advertising tapings in Orlando from 6/13 to 6/15, after the 6/12 PPV show, which means they did have the money for at least the deposit for holding the date. The plan is to tape a One Night Only show and an Xplosion show on 6/13, and then tape two shows on 6/14 (the semi-live show and the 6/21 show) and two more on 6/15 (for 6/28 and 7/5). But there’s an interesting note regarding costs from what they have. The original plan was to tape on both 6/16 and 6/17 and be taped through the first week of August. The last two dates being canceled seems to indicate that they don’t have the money for the expenses of those last two shows right now. Since pay for a lot of the talent and everyone in production is by appearance and date, that it saves 33 percent of the non-trans costs by cutting two of the six dates. However, in the long run it would cost more because they now have to schedule a taping in July that they wouldn’t have needed, and it’ll cost the same for production and talent, but they have the added transportation costs of flying people in again that they wouldn’t have had. In other words, by saving money in June, short-term, they are costing themslves more in the long-term. A few production people are once again behind on pay, including some behind by several months. There was an article in Pro Wrestling Torch on the situation. From what we’ve been able to find out, most of the production people who worked the last tapings were paid in full. The paying of the production people is the responsibility of Aroluxe, which TNA pays for the production work, so it’s kind of a middle-man thing. At the last tapings, it was said that there was some sort of an “error,” and checks for eight people weren’t there at the end of the tapings. Under Aroluxe, the production crew had been paid at the end of the tapings. It wasn’t the months behind stuff like when they were waiting for checks from TNA last year. Don Harris, who heads the crew, told the eight people that they would have their checks at home on 4/26. But as of this past week, nobody had gotten the checks and attempts by those to contact people to find out what’s up had gone nowhere as of last word. There was more to the section (like the part Pete brought up about the ad rates and POP cancelling the replay) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 21 hours ago, RIPPA said: RATINGS ARE UP GOD DAMMIT!!! Sure, but how is morale. That's what really matters!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Morale is the highest it's ever been. because of all the drugs to numb the pain of working for TNA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Just now, Sublime said: Morale is the highest it's ever been. because of all the drugs to numb the pain of working for TNA It's like I tell my clients in jail: "There's nothing that medication can do that will take away the awful parts about being here, no matter how good they may make you feel about being here." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Who is that? Raven? Matt Hardy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Matt. POP TV's Brad Schwartz putting people's worries to rest: Our relationship with Impact is amazing. I love the show every Tuesday night. My relationship with [TNA President] Dixie [Carter] is very special and ultimately, I think the product that is going on the air every Tuesday night is the best wrestling product going. The characters, the ring action, it is amazing to watch. Obviously it's now part of my job to watch every week as I do with all of our original programming and I'm sucked in. Every single Tuesday I need to watch the show because I am sucked in and we're excited about it. It's the second highest rated show on our network. I don't know of too many people that are successful in television getting rid of the second highest rated show on their network. For us, we're excited. We have a long term deal with Impact and you know, until there are twenty different shows doing better than it, it's going to stay where it is for awhile. We have a multi-year deal. Impact, because it's such a unique audience with a unique, live component or an alive component to it, there are sponsorship abilities to that that aren't just in ring sponsorships, show sponsorships and of course, advertising, it's kind of a 360 degree sell. We have, us and Impact, have a third-party company that is selling those integrations and those sponsorships and so it wasn't something that the POP ad sales team was out there in the marketplace doing. That's the only reason [Impact Wrestling] wasn't in our Upfronts release, because our team isn't selling it. From a programming standpoint, yes, it will be on the air. We aren't going to get rid of the second highest rated show on the Network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 23, 2016 Author Share Posted May 23, 2016 Well they aren't getting cancelled (of course I don't expect a TV ex to say anything different) The bigger issue is the lack of money thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn411 Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Hey Brad, how about paying TNA some money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph2112 Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 12 hours ago, DreamBroken said: Matt. POP TV's Brad Schwartz putting people's worries to rest: I don't know of too many people that are successful in television getting rid of the second highest rated show on their network. I don't know, Brad. I'm not a TV exec or anything but the folks over at Spike TV and Destination America? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Schwartz might to talk to UPN or MyNetworkTV execs about how much ratings for wrestling shows mean to a network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilwaldo Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 That statement is a forced positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTTW Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Can pop sell them off to another network? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Not to be outdone by WWE, I just heard that when the Harris Brothers take over, there will be a TNA brand split. Whites on one show, inferior races on the other. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 If TNA went out of business right now, there still would be enough time to get Trevor Lee and Mark Andrews in the Cruiserweight Classic. What are the pros of TNA staying in business? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTTW Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Just now, The Z said: What are the pros of TNA staying in business? Jokes. Lots and lots of jokes. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 5 hours ago, The Z said: What are the pros of TNA staying in business? Dixie not interfering in Panda business. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 5 hours ago, The Z said: If TNA went out of business right now, there still would be enough time to get Trevor Lee and Mark Andrews in the Cruiserweight Classic. What are the pros of TNA staying in business? This thread right'chere! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Maffew posted this on his twitter. Not sure I know (or particularly care) who the wrestlers are who are having this conversation, but the last bit about payment is just too amazing to not mention here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 Actually the part where one of the Young Bucks yells and him and then he yells at a Young Buck is the best 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StretchMediatedHypertrophy Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 EC3 is the best thing on this show by a million miles. Really smart how he plays his babyface character. Look forward to him in WWE down the line. The show isn't very good right now. The whole Knockouts thing doesn't work as it's not really like Maria is holding down a viable division, and they have no real idea where they're going with it. Maria wanted the title, but that seems to have been dropped. And I don't really think Gail Kim is that over outside of the Impact Zone. What's worse is there are hints of a fucking Billy Corgan heel authority figure run. Impact should seriously consider junking this storyline as soon as, and possibly the division actually - I actually saw Knockouts Knockdown and it wasn't like the stuff that wasn't Rebel vs Shelly was any good. Grado is great, but there has to be some reason why he's able to compete with the other guys. He can be super resilient, have a killer finish etc (see Santino). But he's been sold by TNA as a joke and more or less booked by one. Decay.....have no opponents? Matt Hardy has a strange obsession with Milo Yiannopoulos? Galloway vs Lashley isn't a bad feud, but it feels like we're treading water until Bennett gets the title. EC3 was right about Bennett......it's called Leg Day Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zev Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 Roode's gone and Davey's still injured, so the two teams Decay feuded with are both out. I think they're getting the Bromans next, with the Bros getting that fitness guru so they can have 6 person tags as well as title matches. Personally, I'm just hoping that they have a segment where Rosemary realizes that Cherry Bomb's right there in the Impact Zone and just starts a fight, thus continuing their indie feud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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