SmackDown Leaving Fox, Returning to USA Network after October 2024 — Plus, Four WWE Specials Coming to NBC

[Kross Rhodes]

Whomever gets Raw would have to outbid USA, so it’ll be a good channel, though.

 

[Dale]

Whomever gets Raw would have to outbid USA, so it’ll be a good channel, though.

Only names being bandied about that i've seen is Disney and Amazon

 

[Kross Rhodes]

NXT is already pulling numbers almost 9x what impacts highest ratings usually are. I don't get the joke

I like Impact whenever I can be bothered to watch it, but it’s honestly shocking how low their ratings are.

 

[Hoss]

Does Impact go against the NFL on Thursdays?

Define "go against".

They happen concurrently, though, yes.

 

[Hoss]

I like Impact whenever I can be bothered to watch it, but it’s honestly shocking how low their ratings are.

If they were on a Spike-ish channel still, they'd probably at least get 100k, maybe more. They're just so far off of the average viewer's radar that only people seeking it out are ever watching it

 

[Bad News Booty]

Does Impact go against the NFL on Thursdays?

NFL game is only on Amazon though


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[Canadian Dragon]

If they were on a Spike-ish channel still, they'd probably at least get 100k, maybe more. They're just so far off of the average viewer's radar that only people seeking it out are ever watching it

100k is about what they get now I though , or I am mixing it for the ratings they had with Omega

 

[Dale]

Yeah I meant at the same time, could have thrown NXT on Thursdays against Impact if they really wanted to move Raw.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

Yea. AXS tv is only in like, 50 million households, and even then I doubt most of those 50 million even know the network exists

 

[Canadian Dragon]

impact isnt going against anything, they are irrelevant. there's little to zero cross over between fanbases. well maybe some with nxt because they are both cheesy ass shows

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I want to say impact average is about 80,000.

 

[Sabretooth]

How can AXS even afford to keep them on the air

 

[Hidden Blaze]

How can AXS even afford to keep them on the air

Probably because they own the company and don’t gotta pay for media rights. At least I think that’s the case…

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Yeah, anthem is a Canadian television broadcast company. The reason they bought Impact in the first place is because they used to air on their fight network in Canada and then once they bought Impact they wanted to make it cheaper to produce so they bought the network AXS and put impact on it, and since anthem owns both the channel and the company it saves them a lot of money on media rights fees and the thing is impact has low numbers for a wrestling program, but it’s probably their top 1 or 2 program they probably have on any of their channels.

 

[#Waddles]

I like Impact whenever I can be bothered to watch it, but it’s honestly shocking how low their ratings are.

How low are they?