GFW Impact
| GFW Impact! | |
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Impact logo used beginning July 2017
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| Genre | Professional wrestling |
| Created by | Jeff Jarrett |
| Starring | GFW roster |
| Opening theme | "Notorious" by Dale Oliver |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 14 |
| No. of episodes | 683 (as of August 17, 2017) |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Multicamera setup |
| Running time | 120 minutes (inc. commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Fox Sports Net (2004–2005) Webcast (2005) Urban America Television (2005) Spike (2005–2014) Destination America (2015) Pop (2016–present) |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | June 4, 2004 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Xplosion |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
GFW Impact! (previously known as Impact Wrestling and TNA Impact!) is a professional wrestling television program produced by the American Global Force Wrestling promotion, formerly known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Impact Wrestling.
The show debuted in the United States on Fox Sports Net on June 4, 2004, where it remained until May 2005. The show began broadcasting episodes via syndication in limited markets on Urban America Television (replacing TNA's syndicated show Xplosion) and on the Internet between June 24 and September 16, 2005, before securing a deal with Spike TV, with the first show airing on October 1, 2005. Impact! first began airing episodes on Saturday nights, before later moving to Thursday nights in April 2006. It briefly moved to Monday nights in 2010 and to Wednesday nights in 2014 until its final broadcast on Spike. In 2015, the show moved to Destination America, initially airing on Friday nights before moving back to Wednesday nights on June 3, 2015. Its final broadcast on Destination America was December 16, 2015 at 11:00 pm ET.
Since July 21, 2016, Impact! airs weekly on Pop in the United States, Thursday nights at 8:00 pm.
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 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 later both Bravo and Bravo 2 in the United Kingdom, as well as Eurosport. After 51 shows 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 0.3 household rating.
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