Source: Various
This report supersedes the viewership-only report from earlier today.
The final cable rating and viewership estimates for last night’s episode of iMPACT! on Spike TV are now available. The company’s flagship show had a small increase in its final ratings number, but a very large jump in overall viewership. Last night’s episode of the show scored a final cable rating of 1.17 which represented about 1,730,000 viewers over the course of the show’s two hours. This week’s final rating is 0.03 of a point higher (and about 190,000 more viewers) than last week’s episode, which scored a final cable rating of 1.14 with an average audience of 1,540,000 viewers
When we know more about the ratings breakdown, we’ll report how the show rated in each of its two hours. TNA Wrestling on Spike TV had more viewers last night than programming on other cable channels like the Discovery Channel, The History Channel, TLC, and FX.
For comparison’s sake, TNAStars.com used to promote a completely fictitious Thursday Night War as a comedy piece on this website. WWE may have won the short-lived 2010 Monday Night War, but TNA Wrestling won the 2010 – 2011 Thursday Night War!
If you’re interested in iMPACT!’s ratings performance for 2010 and the first half of 2011, then check out TNAStars.com’s Ratings War area. In the Ratings War area you can see a comparison of iMPACT! vs. Monday Night RAW and iMPACT! vs. Superstars from all of 2010 and 2011. Enjoy!
People are nostaglig for the old stars, Kurt Angle, Scott Steiner, and Sting.
And after that we got RVD, Jeff Hardy, Ken Anderson, AJ Styles.
Those 7 are mainevent material. Steiner should be used more as a heel.
The starpowers is all there, just need a great build up and a angle to make the big big face and big big heel to make people wanna watch what happend every week.
A big event to make people talk about TNA like “omg saw what happend at TNA”
Like when WCW turned big when Hogan became heel. A chocker.
I agree with your Steiner comments and it looks like they may be moving that way with his upcoming program with Matt Morgan. Though I must say he was way over with the fans in Cincinnati. Then again Cincinnati has always been more of a heel town.
Steiner definitely seems to be getting a great reaction as a face, but he could also be the type of monster heel Immortal needs. Granted, given the nature of Steiner’s arrival it wouldn’t make much sense, but there’s always the “he sold out for the money” angle to fall back on.
Regarding his interaction with Matt Morgan, I found it very strange that Matt Morgan, even as a babyface, was so respectful and wanted to shake Scott’s hand, even after Steiner made the comment about Matt Morgan’s girlfriend. Sometimes the good-sport-respect bit goes a bit overboard in my opinion.
Anyway I’m glad to hear ratings are up because like any TNA fan I really want them to be successful.