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TNA Impact! (official typeset "TNA iMPACT!") is a professional wrestling television program produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as its main television program. TNA Impact is filmed at the Impact! Zone (Soundstage 21 at the Universal Studios Florida theme park of Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida). Tapings of the show are held biweekly on Mondays and Tuesdays and admission is free.
It currently airs in the United States and Canada on Spike TV, and airs on Bravo in the United Kingdom.
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TNA Impact! (official typeset "TNA iMPACT!") is a professional wrestling television program produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as its main television program. TNA Impact is filmed at the Impact! Zone (Soundstage 21 at the Universal Studios Florida theme park of Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida). Tapings of the show are held biweekly on Mondays and Tuesdays and admission is free.
It currently airs in the United States and Canada on Spike TV, and airs on Bravo in the United Kingdom. Following Impact's debut in Australia, there has been growing demand to have it broadcast in New Zealand.
TNA iMPACT!'s current opening theme is "Cross the Line" by AD/AM.
History
Fox Sports Net era: May 2004 - May 2005
In May 2004, TNA announced that they had negotiated a television deal with Fox Sports Net (FSN) where they would get a one-hour timeslot on Fridays in most markets, putting TNA on unrestricted cable and satellite for the first time. TNA began taping TNA Impact that month and aired the first episode on June 4, 2004. Impact was also syndicated throughout Canada (on RDS) and Europe (on The Wrestling Channel and, also later, both Eurosport Bravo and Bravo 2). TNA's contract with FSN expired in May 2005 and was not renegotiated, with the last episode airing on May 27, 2005. The series as a whole gained little success, averaging a 0.2 household rating.
Webcasts
TNA was left with no television deal and, therefore, had no means of promoting their monthly pay-per-views (although Impact did continue to air on certain regional networks in place of TNA Xplosion). On July 1, TNA began offering new episodes of Impact through their website, first using BitTorrent downloads, then by streaming through RealPlayer. To save on production costs, four hours of Impact were recorded in a day and made available throughout the subsequent month.
Two hour expansion
Impact expanded to two hours on October 4, 2007, still starting at the same time.
On January 17, 2008, Spike TV presented an event entitled "Global iMPACT!", which featured TNA wrestlers in matches against talent of New Japan Pro Wrestling.
On March 27, Impact! aired live for the first time in the show's history in its regular timeslot.
Announced in a release on TNAwrestling.com on April 2, 2008, TNA came to terms on a deal that had "Impact" airing in Australia starting April 5. Up until then, TNA had only broadcast their monthly pay-per-view events on Main Event. Impact now airs every Saturday at 9:30 p.m and every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m on FOX8.
On October 23 2008, TNA aired its first Impact! outside of the Impact! Zone in Orlando, It was broadcasted from Las Vegas, Nevada. TNA also made the transition to HD and announced that all Impacts! after this would be broadcasted in High Definition.
TNA Wrestling.com announced that in a few months time TNA will launch TNA Home Video to Australia.
Content
Impact generally features four to seven matches over the course of the two hour show, as well as numerous interviews and segments interspersed between the matches. Due to the nature of the wrestling business, advertisements for merchandise and upcoming pay-per-view events often serve as bookmarks for the commercial segments.
When Impact was on Fox Sports Net, all matches had a time limit and the station's Fox Box was used. In the event of a time limit draw, the winner was determined by the NWA Championship Committee, a group consisting of three veteran wrestlers. Since leaving the channel, TNA has discarded the time limit concept.
Roster
Commentators
Management Director
- Jim Cornette (July 16, 2006 - Present)
- Matt Morgan - Bodyguard/Enforcer (August 9, 2007 - April 10, 2008)
- Tracy Brooks - Knockouts Division Commissioner (August 28, 2008 - Present)
- Mick Foley - Executive shareholder (October 12, 2008 - Present)
Special Episodes
| Episode Title | Date | Rating | Note |
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| Live Impact! | March 27, 2008 | 1.0 | | | Live HD Impact! | October 23, 2008 | 1.1 | |
Recurring segments
| Segment | Type | Host(s) | Years active | Notes |
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| Rough Cut | Interview segment | N/A | February 2008 - Present | | | $25,000 Fan Challenge | Wrestling Challenge | Awesome Kong
w/Raisha Saeed | May 2008 - July 2008 | | | Karen's Angle | Interview segment | Karen Angle | July 2008 - October 2008 | | | O.D.B.'s Angle | Interview segment | O.D.B. | November 2008 - Present | | | Hardcore History 101 | Interview segment | Mick Foley | February 2009 - Present | | | Off the Wagon Challenge | Wrestling challenge | Beer Money, Inc.
(Robert Roode and James Storm) | February 2009 - Present | |
Directors of Authority
The Director of Authority was the on-screen authority figure for the company.
International broadcasters
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