TNA President Dixie Carter confirmed Wednesday that iMPACT! will officially be relocating on Monday nights.
Driven by an improved ratings performance this week–particularly in its opening, uncontested hour–iMPACT! has been moved to 8PM on Mondays. Airing 8PM-10PM, it will now have only one hour go head-to-head with WWE’s Monday Night RAW.
Spike TV has also reinstated the Thursday night replay at 9PM.
It should be interesting to see if WWE offers any response. Following TNA’s strong January 4 performance, there was talk that if TNA regularly went from 8-10PM on Mondays, WWE would work with USA Network to turn RAW into a three-hour weekly broadcast.
With TNA’s ratings struggling thus far on Mondays, however, it is unclear that WWE would make such a clear retalliation, especially since there are creative and logistical hazards to running a weekly three-hour show.
Good News, I Guess. Personally, I’d Like To See Them Return To Thursday Nights.
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