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Post by deskjet on Jul 24, 2007 20:34:42 GMT -5
SpikeTV reportedly has plans to move UFC programming (including the Ultimate Fighter reality series) to Wednesdays if TNA remains with them, presumably to make way for a two hour version of Impact. There is no "reportedly" to this. Spike TV HAS moved The Ultimate Fighter. It was announced a few days ago. whoa, didnt realize MyNetwork was a Fox affiliate. This validates previous reports and suggests some serious negotiations have been going on. Go with the company thats gonna take care of ya. Spike hasnt done anything to try to get them 2 hours since coming on, yet they pump out UFC a hundred times and other crappy programming...come on FOX...ok Im done ;D Because they totally didn't just move The Ultimate Fighter to another night, presumably in order to clear that 2nd hour for TNA if a deal is reached. Or given TNA the chance in the past to have 2-hour specials, which were testing the waters for a future move to 2 hours. But yeah, Spike TV has never done anything for TNA. Ever. Nope. Nothing. Boy you hit the nail on the head with that one. Yeah, Spike gives a rip about TNA. Let's make room for them now since there are rumors of them leaving  ...pffft ...gimmie a break |
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Post by gregthebunny on Jul 25, 2007 6:02:59 GMT -5
Maybe because UFC is over 50x more popular than TNA in today's society? and that warrants a monopoly of programming time? please, if Spike wants to be known as the UFC channel, that's great but it shouldnt be at the hands of a compnay trying to make its mark. Sure Spike helped TNA get network but they havent done much to get them 2 hours...how long has TNA wanted 2 hours? almost since they came on, but what does Spike do? They throw them a bone here and there, then give us csi and star trek reruns and two hours worth of the most amazing videos, and some gawd aweful originla programming. I'm glad Spike gave them the cahnce but FOX can do so much more with them and I believe they are willing to allow that. Yes actually, UFC's ratings do warrant more programming on Spike. But it's hard to tell that because UFC at the moment only has 2 hours of regularly scheduled programming a week, which is 2 episodes of UFC Unleashed that follow Impact. The only time that is different is if TUF is in season, or it is a fight week so they have hype specials or a live event on Spike. I'm getting sick of this bullsh*t where you guys complain Spike shows too much UFC programming. I wouldn't call a few hours a week too much. And maybe if TNA could get people to watch their damn show every week, they wouldn't be in this position and Spike would have no problem giving them 2 hours. I watch it every week myself, and have bought the past 4 PPVs, not download or stream, BOUGHT, but they need more than the same people watching it every week. If a lot of you blind marks would pull your heads out of your asses you would realize this as well. |
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Post by deskjet on Jul 25, 2007 8:58:23 GMT -5
and that warrants a monopoly of programming time? please, if Spike wants to be known as the UFC channel, that's great but it shouldnt be at the hands of a compnay trying to make its mark. Sure Spike helped TNA get network but they havent done much to get them 2 hours...how long has TNA wanted 2 hours? almost since they came on, but what does Spike do? They throw them a bone here and there, then give us csi and star trek reruns and two hours worth of the most amazing videos, and some gawd aweful originla programming. I'm glad Spike gave them the cahnce but FOX can do so much more with them and I believe they are willing to allow that. Yes actually, UFC's ratings do warrant more programming on Spike. But it's hard to tell that because UFC at the moment only has 2 hours of regularly scheduled programming a week, which is 2 episodes of UFC Unleashed that follow Impact. The only time that is different is if TUF is in season, or it is a fight week so they have hype specials or a live event on Spike. I'm getting sick of this bullsh*t where you guys complain Spike shows too much UFC programming. I wouldn't call a few hours a week too much. And maybe if TNA could get people to watch their damn show every week, they wouldn't be in this position and Spike would have no problem giving them 2 hours. I watch it every week myself, and have bought the past 4 PPVs, not download or stream, BOUGHT, but they need more than the same people watching it every week. If a lot of you blind marks would pull your heads out of your asses you would realize this as well. Do you have freakin's stock in SPIKE TV or something? Bottom line is, there's no excuse for TNA not to be getting two hours from this company. Spike goes out of there way to put every other gawd aweful programming on tv ie whacked out, CSI, UFC, etc...I've seen more than my share of freakin repeats from the aformentioned programming and for this reason Spike could at least afford TNA another hour. Sure UFC is popular, but ya ever stop to think if TNA had more time to do more things they could attract more of an audience? And I'm not gonna blame TNA's ratings solely on their storylines...there's more factors involved here. And us blind marks are the ones supporting this company, including yourself by self admission. No ones arguing about the show here, it's had its good and bad and has been stated by myself and others. The point here is the comittment that a tv company has to its products. To me, Spike has had a chance to do more for TNA and only now, when there's a threat are they doing something. They've given TNA a couple of specias in the past...whoopie, why not give them that block of time your showing a repeat of Star trek or World wackiest games. TNA has exactly one hour and some change if you include youtube to get their product, storylines, everything across to their audience...it's not an overadvertised conglomerate like the WWE that has the luxury of carrying storylines over 3 shows. If Fox/Spike gives them this opportunity I think you'll see better programming and a decent increase in ratings, which are just as fickle as the fans . Like I said, If Spike was serious, they woulda done this already, IMHO. |
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Post by Adam on Jul 25, 2007 11:02:39 GMT -5
In Spike's defense, who would give a two-hour spot to a relatively new wrestling company? Spike gave TNA had a late-night Saturday timeslot, and had good ratings; so they rewarded them with a primetime spot on Thursday nights. Now, TNA's doing well in that spot, so Spike clears out the hour after Impact, obviously implying that there's a two-hour slot waiting for TNA.
It's all about having patience. It's SpikeTV's patience that's leading to them proposing an offer for a two-hour show. It's TNA's patience that's led to them having two stations wanting their brand.
Even so, I'm really excited if this Fox news is true and comes through. I think TNA has just about topped off (in terms of viewers) on Spike; and Fox's ability to cross-promote far outweighs anything Spike could offer now.
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Post by Cammi Oh on Jul 25, 2007 12:30:51 GMT -5
I think TNA is getting ready for greatness... FOX tv can help that.
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Post by deskjet on Jul 25, 2007 14:23:25 GMT -5
In Spike's defense, who would give a two-hour spot to a relatively new wrestling company? SPike gave TNA had a late-night Saturday timeslot, and had good ratings; so they rewarded them with a primetime spot on Thursday nights. Now, TNA's doing well in that spot, so Spike clears out the hour after Impact, obviously implying that there's a two-hour slot waiting for TNA. It's all about having patience. It's SpikeTV's patience that's leading to them proposing an offer for a two-hour show. It's TNA's patience that's led to them having two stations wanting their brand. Even so, I'm really excited if this Fox news is true and comes through. I think TNA has just about topped off (in terms of viewers) on Spike; and Fox's ability to cross-promote far outweighs anything Spike could offer now. well said from both points of view  |
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Post by taker1 on Jul 25, 2007 18:22:26 GMT -5
Maybe because UFC is over 50x more popular than TNA in today's society? and that warrants a monopoly of programming time? please, if Spike wants to be known as the UFC channel, that's great but it shouldnt be at the hands of a compnay trying to make its mark. Sure Spike helped TNA get network but they havent done much to get them 2 hours...how long has TNA wanted 2 hours? almost since they came on, but what does Spike do? They throw them a bone here and there, then give us csi and star trek reruns and two hours worth of the most amazing videos, and some gawd aweful originla programming. I'm glad Spike gave them the cahnce but FOX can do so much more with them and I believe they are willing to allow that. Spike should definitely give them a 2nd hour, but Stinger was saying how they should fork over millions of dollars and TV deals to get them to stay. They'll do that for UFC because it's VERY popular, while TNA is not. |
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Post by Controversial Maverick PUNK on Jul 26, 2007 12:29:03 GMT -5
It's not Spike TV's fault... Don't blame the UFC, for TNA's shortcomings - and the fact that they can't attract any viewers... 2 hours, on either FOX or Spike - it won't make any difference... they'll never make a dent, in the ratings... besides... Who could stand 2 hours of Don West, every week?   ... |
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Post by alessicustoms2 on Jul 26, 2007 12:56:38 GMT -5
It's not Spike TV's fault... Don't blame the UFC, for TNA's shortcomings - and the fact that they can't attract any viewers... 2 hours, on either FOX or Spike - it won't make any difference... they'll never make a dent, in the ratings... besides... Who could stand 2 hours of Don West, every week? ... Or TNA will improve by a second hour and extra show by building more storylines longer matches and having time for each person on the roster. |
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Post by deskjet on Jul 26, 2007 13:27:04 GMT -5
It's not Spike TV's fault... Don't blame the UFC, for TNA's shortcomings - and the fact that they can't attract any viewers... 2 hours, on either FOX or Spike - it won't make any difference... they'll never make a dent, in the ratings... besides... Who could stand 2 hours of Don West, every week? ... rather listen to him then watch regal prance around like a fairy walkin around with his hand down the back of his pants |
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Post by shelleyrules on Jul 29, 2007 14:40:47 GMT -5
A little bit more info Mike Johnson posted in the PWinsider Newsletter.
Since a few sources are mentioning it to me now, I can say that FX is the network FOX is looking at putting TNA on. Several months back I mentioned the possibility of a network that had never aired wrestling before. Well, it was FX.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2007 14:42:08 GMT -5
tna on FX late night sounds great
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Post by nascar on Jul 29, 2007 15:36:56 GMT -5
Awesome News !! TNA all the way !!!
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Post by deskjet on Jul 29, 2007 15:57:09 GMT -5
I believe FX was the company Bischoff was trying to sign with when scrambling to keep WCW alive but well we all know the rest...
I was actually thinking FX would be good fro tna ;D
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Post by wcw24 on Jul 29, 2007 18:00:34 GMT -5
It's not Spike TV's fault... Don't blame the UFC, for TNA's shortcomings - and the fact that they can't attract any viewers... 2 hours, on either FOX or Spike - it won't make any difference... they'll never make a dent, in the ratings... besides... Who could stand 2 hours of Don West, every week? ... Yes it is...For putting 2 top shows to compete against each other; then supporting one over the other...They make the scheduling; they are at fault! |
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Post by eso on Jul 29, 2007 22:33:27 GMT -5
i hope they find another station. . i hate the way spike promotes tna.. the whole show just feels weird. i dont know what it is..
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Post by Adam on Jul 29, 2007 23:16:15 GMT -5
It's not Spike TV's fault... Don't blame the UFC, for TNA's shortcomings - and the fact that they can't attract any viewers... 2 hours, on either FOX or Spike - it won't make any difference... they'll never make a dent, in the ratings... besides... Who could stand 2 hours of Don West, every week? ... Yes it is...For putting 2 top shows to compete against each other; then supporting one over the other... They make the scheduling; they are at fault!In general, UFC is 10x more popular (i.e. mainstream/in the public eye) than TNA. Spike is just making a good business decision by promoting it more often. |
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Post by nascar on Jul 29, 2007 23:37:02 GMT -5
I think TNA is getting ready for greatness... FOX tv can help that. I really hope your right lol |
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Post by Mr. PerpetuaLynch Motion on Jul 29, 2007 23:51:46 GMT -5
All this talk about Spike made me want to look on Spike to find when the hell TNA comes on at this moment... All I know is it comes on Thursday. I was checking the Bios page and they still have Austin Starr listed on the Bios page...
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Post by szatowski420 on Jul 30, 2007 15:07:43 GMT -5
Yes actually, UFC's ratings do warrant more programming on Spike. But it's hard to tell that because UFC at the moment only has 2 hours of regularly scheduled programming a week, which is 2 episodes of UFC Unleashed that follow Impact. The only time that is different is if TUF is in season, or it is a fight week so they have hype specials or a live event on Spike. I'm getting sick of this bullsh*t where you guys complain Spike shows too much UFC programming. I wouldn't call a few hours a week too much. And maybe if TNA could get people to watch their damn show every week, they wouldn't be in this position and Spike would have no problem giving them 2 hours. I watch it every week myself, and have bought the past 4 PPVs, not download or stream, BOUGHT, but they need more than the same people watching it every week. If a lot of you blind marks would pull your heads out of your asses you would realize this as well. Do you have freakin's stock in SPIKE TV or something? Bottom line is, there's no excuse for TNA not to be getting two hours from this company. Spike goes out of there way to put every other gawd aweful programming on tv ie whacked out, CSI, UFC, etc...I've seen more than my share of freakin repeats from the aformentioned programming and for this reason Spike could at least afford TNA another hour. Sure UFC is popular, but ya ever stop to think if TNA had more time to do more things they could attract more of an audience? And I'm not gonna blame TNA's ratings solely on their storylines...there's more factors involved here. And us blind marks are the ones supporting this company, including yourself by self admission. No ones arguing about the show here, it's had its good and bad and has been stated by myself and others. The point here is the comittment that a tv company has to its products. To me, Spike has had a chance to do more for TNA and only now, when there's a threat are they doing something. They've given TNA a couple of specias in the past...whoopie, why not give them that block of time your showing a repeat of Star trek or World wackiest games. TNA has exactly one hour and some change if you include youtube to get their product, storylines, everything across to their audience...it's not an overadvertised conglomerate like the WWE that has the luxury of carrying storylines over 3 shows. If Fox/Spike gives them this opportunity I think you'll see better programming and a decent increase in ratings, which are just as fickle as the fans . Like I said, If Spike was serious, they woulda done this already, IMHO. I agree with you. Instead of having a repeat of ufc unleashed following Impact, they should just give impact a second hour. I don't know about the Ultimate Fight Nights, but I think Impact's ratings are higher than ufc unleashed and identical to The Ultimate Fighter. Most of the other programming on Spike does cuck ass, so that's another thing we agree on. I guess Spike feels that they are doing TNA a favor by letting them be on the network, so they feel TNA has to take what they give them. Otherwise, they can leave so Spike can show an extra episode of ufc unleashed |
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