TNA iMPACT! 2009 ratings (8/13 - 1.1)

Itll definately be 1.4 in 2 weeks imo

Thursday April 16th 2009 The Heavens Open

I posted the spoiler

Well i had to rename that thread, if you check the thread youll see what it was originally called

-- Last week's episode of Impact on Spike drew a 1.33 cable rating with 1.97 million viewers. The number was slightly below the record 1.34 rating, but the viewership was the most in history. The episode did a 1.3 both Males 18-34 and Males 35-49, setting records for the show except when it followed Ultimate Fighter. Impact was ranked No. 2 on cable in adult Males behind only NBA basketball on TNT. Impact also beat both Ultimate Fighter and Ultimate Fight Night from the night before.

In the segment-by-segment numbers, the eight-man tag match with Sheik Abdul Bashir, Kiyoshi, Team No Limit (Tetsuya Naito & Yujiro) vs. Jay Lethal, Consequences Creed & LAX, plus a backstage segment featuring Jeff Jarrett and Mick Foley gained 74,000 viewers. Backstage segments featuring Team 3D confronting Jim Cornette and security, Mike Tenay's sitdown interview with Foley, and Dr. Stevie with Abyss lost 89,000 viewers. The Team 3D vs. Main Event Mafia security and more Foley and Angle gained 178,000 viewers. Angle's apology to Sting and Foley in the rafters gained 118,000 viewers to do a 1.45 quarter, tying the company's all-time highest quarter hour mark. This week, the Knockouts lost viewers as the the introduction of The Governor as Daffney with the Taylor Wilde vs. Madison Rayne match lost 118,000 viewers. A match pitting Scott Steiner against AJ Styles with Angle and Jarrett coming out lost 89,000 viewers. The main event featuring Sting vs. Samoa Joe stayed even, doing a 1.31 rating.

-- TNA Wrestling's key revenue stream, which is their contract with Spike, is said to be solid, although there is always the feeling that to Spike, they are the red-headed stepchild and UFC is the prodigal son.

-- TNA president Dixie Carter has called off plans to feature a match between Eric Young and Danny Bonaduce on the Lockdown pay-per-view. The match will still be held, but simply as a dark match for the live audience.

Carter felt Lockdown was going to be a serious show and she didn't want a comedy match such as Eric Young vs. Danny Bonaduce diminishing it, which explains why the angle taped at Bonaduce's radio show a few weeks ago won't be airing on Impact.

TNA received a legal letter from the attorneys from Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling a few weeks ago telling them that Bonaduce couldn't appear on the show as he was under contract to them. Following negotiations between both sides, everything has been worked out and Bonaduce will be able to work the match.

TNA Wrestling publicist Ross Forman came up with the idea in the sense they wanted a media contact in the Philadelphia market they could use locally to publicize Lockdown. TNA officials had Vai Sikahema in mind, the local NBC sportscaster who played in the NFL, including with the Philadelphia Eagles. Outside of the area, he may be best known for knocking out Jose Canseco in a celebrity boxing match last spring, and because of his involvement, they figured he wouldn't mind doing something with him. Sikahema was not interested, so Mike Tenay brought up Bonaduce's name, since he’s a drive time DJ in the market on one of the major radio stations, recently did Hogan's show, and is lifelong wrestling fan. When Bonaduce was approached about working with TNA, he was thrilled and willing to do pretty much anything they asked. Everyone involved has raved about how cooperative he's been.

When Young went to shoot the angle with Bonaduce, he worked out a little with Bonaduce in the ring and told to give a report on him on the Jay Leno to Kevin Greene scale — complete athletic dud or someone who took to wrestling like a duck to water. TNA would then decide whether to make it a dark match or a pay-per-view match. Young gave Bonaduce the thumbs up so TNA officials planned on putting him on the pay-per-view, but as noted, Carter doesn't want a comedy match diminishing the event.

-- Despite daily mentions and buildup on Danny Bonaduce's radio show in Philadelphia, ticket sales to Lockdown have been disappointing as only 3,000 had been sold as of a week ago.

-- You can following TNA Knockout Roxxi on Twitter at www.twitter.com/roxxinikki.

havent seen impact yet, but im thinking 1.3

Can this be stickied please

Last week’s episode of TNA iMPACT did a 1.3 cable rating, with about 1.9 million viewers. It placed #2 in the Males 18-49 demographic behind NBA basketball on TNT. Here is a complete breakdown of the quarter-hour ratings:

Q1: 1.30 (Main Event Mafia/Jarrett in-ring segment)
Q2: 1.24 (Sheik Bashir vs. Suicide, Beautiful People backstage)
Q3: 1.23 (Rhino backstage, Sting sit-down interview)
Q4: 1.23 (Foley in-ring promo, M.E.M. backstage)
Q5: 1.36 (Samoa Joe vs. Booker T, Team 3D rough cut segment)
Q6: 1.43 (James Storm vs. Scott Steiner with Nash/Roode/3D at ringside)
Q7: 1.39 (Beautiful People backstage, Kong vs. Velvet Sky & Rayne)
Q8: 1.39 (Motor City Machine Guns vs. Foley, Sting interference)

This rating is slightly down from last week’s average, but the quarter hours show improvement for TNA’s long-term goals. The two final quarter hours were .08 higher than last week’s two final quarter hours. Last week’s highest rated quarter-hour was the Q5 M.E.M/Sting/Foley in-ring segment, while this week’s was Q6 which featured M.E.M. member Scott Steiner facing James Storm, with appearances from Kevin Nash, Robert Roode and Team 3D.

Following is a chart from the first three months of 2009 to track TNA's steady climb toward matching ECW TV during the week.

January Averages
ECW TV - 1.73 million viewers
TNA Impact - 1.63 million viewers
ECW TV + 6.0 percent

February Averages
ECW TV - 1.75 million viewers
TNA Impact - 1.68 million viewers
ECW TV + 4.5 percent

March Averages
ECW TV - 1.84 million viewers
TNA Impact - 1.82 million viewers
ECW TV + 1.1 percent

First Quarter 2009 Averages
ECW TV - 1.78 million viewers
TNA Impact - 1.71 million viewers
ECW TV + 3.6 percent