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. Following Impact's debut in Australia, there has been growing demand to have it broadcast in New Zealand.

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.

Spike TV era

At the same time, TNA began seeking a more profitable television outlet, finally negotiated a Saturday night timeslot with Spike TV and started airing Impact on October 1 2005. Two episodes were taped every other Tuesday, airing them on the subsequent Saturday. TNA's syndication contracts for Impact on local TV channels, from after the FSN contract, were converted to contracts for TNA's syndicated show, TNA Xplosion. They are no longer paying for the timeslot, though Spike TV controls their advertising revenue. Because of viewership growth, Impact was moved to Thursdays in April 2006, and later to an earlier primetime slot in November. Tapings were moved to Tuesdays.

Starting in June 2006, episodes of Impact became available at the iTunes Music Store.

Two hour expansion

Impact expanded to two hours on October 4, starting at the same time.

On January 17, Spike TV presented an event entitled "Global iMPACT!", which featured TNA wrestlers in matches against the 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.

TNA will air its first Impact! outside of the Impact! Zone in Orlando on October 23. It will hail from Las Vegas, Nevada and air live in HD. This will mark the first time TNA has used the HD format. Following October 23, all Impacts! will air in HD.

Content

Television ratings

Channel	Avg. rating
FSN	0.2
Spike TV	0.7
Spike TV	0.9
Spike TV	1.0
Spike TV	1.1

Impact generally features four to seven matches in 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, Impact has discarded the time limit concept.

Roster

Commentators

• Mike Tenay (June 2004 – present)
• Don West (June 2004 – present)

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)

Special Episodes

Episode Title	Date	Rating	Note
Live iMPACT!	March 27 2008	1.0

Recurring segments

Segment	Type	Host(s)	Years active	Notes
$25,000 Fan Challenge	Wrestling Challenge	Awesome Kong w/Raisha Saeed	May 2008 - July 2008
Rough Cut	Interview segment	TNA Latest superstar update- How the superstar got into professional wrestling	February 2008 - Present
Karen's Angle	Interview segment	Karen Angle	July 2008 - October 2008

Directors of Authority

The Director of Authority was the on-screen authority figure for the company.

• Vince Russo (February 18, 2004 - November 7, 2004)
• Dusty Rhodes (November 7, 2004 - June 17, 2005)

International broadcasters

Country	Network
United States and Canada	Spike TV
United Kingdom	Bravo (as of 2008)
Europe	Eurosport
Germany	Premiere
Spain	Antena 3 and Antena.neox
Romania	Sport.ro MTV
Italy	GXT
Quebec	RDS
Asia	ESPN Star Sports
Philippines	ABC and Star World
India	Star World
Africa	Click Boogie
Mexico	52mx
Australia	FOX8

References

External links

• TNA "iMPACT! at Spike TV
• TNA "iMPACT!" in the UK on Bravo
• Official TNA Videos at YouTube