Impact Wrestling
| Impact Wrestling | |
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| Genre | Professional wrestling |
| Created by | Jeff Jarrett |
| Starring | TNA roster |
| Opening theme | "Sinister Rise Above" (Instrumental) by Dale Oliver |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 15 |
| No. of episodes | 667 (as of February 23, 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 |
TNA Xplosion TNA Today Impact Wrestling: Unlocked TNA Wrestling's Greatest Matches |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Impact Wrestling (formerly known as TNA Impact!, which was stylized as TNA iMPACT!, and commonly referred to as either Impact on Pop or simply as Impact) is a professional wrestling television program produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
The show debuted in the United States on Fox Sports Net on June 4, 2004, but after TNA's contract was not renegotiated in May 2005, the show was left without a television network on which to broadcast. 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.
As of January 5, 2016, Impact Wrestling airs weekly on Pop in the United States, now airing on Tuesday nights. Starting July 21, 2016, the show moved to Thursday nights and to a new time slot at 8:00 PM ET.
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 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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