Impact Wrestling Impact Wrestling ( formerly TNA iMPACT ! ) is a television program for TNA that currently airs on in the United States and Canada on POP TV , and airs on Bravo in the United Kingdom . Following iMPACT ! ' s debut in Australia , there has been growing demand to have it broadcast in New Zealand . The show is regularly 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 . The show ' s opening theme is called : Sinister Rise Above ( Instrumental version ) by Dale Oliver . 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 , now known simply as Spike , 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 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 . In June 2006 , episodes of " Impact " became available at the iTunes Store . Two Hour Expansion . " iMPACT ! " expanded to two hours on October 4 , 2007 , still starting at the same time . On January 17 , 2008 , Spike presented an event entitled " Global iMPACT ! " , which featured TNA wrestlers in matches against 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 . On October 23 , 2008 , TNA aired its first iMPACT ! outside of the iMPACT ! Zone in Orlando . It was broadcasted from Las Vegas , Nevada . TNA also made the transition to HD and announced that all Impacts ! after this would be broadcast in High Definition . Re - branding to Impact Wrestling ( May 2011 – September 2014 ) . On May 3 , 2011 , at the tapings of the May 12 edition of " Impact ! " , the show was re - branded " Impact Wrestling " with the slogan " Where Wrestling Matters " , with the color scheme changing from red and black to blue , white and gray . This led to the URL of TNA Wrestling ' s website , tnawrestling . com , to be renamed impactwrestling . com . On July 11 , 2011 , it was announced that TNA would hold " Impact Wrestling " tapings on August 25 at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville , Alabama , on September 21 at the Knoxville Coliseum in Knoxville , Tennessee , and on October 26 at the Macon Coliseum in Macon , Georgia . On January 6 , 2012 , TNA announced the first international " Impact Wrestling " tapings would be taking place on January 28 at the Wembley Arena in London , England . On May 17 , 2012 , TNA announced that " Impact Wrestling " would air live through the summer of 2012 , starting on May 31 , when the show moved to a new time slot at 8pm ET . The live schedule was later extended first through September , and then through the rest of 2012 . On January 31 , 2013 , TNA announced that they would begin taping Impact from different venues around the United States starting March 14 , 2013 , from the Sears Center in Chicago . TNA officially terminated its lease with Universal Studios Orlando Florida in late March 2013 and left the Impact Wrestling Zone . On March 14 , 2013 , TNA introduced a new universal HD set which is used for all weekly programming . On May 30 , 2013 , Impact Wrestling went back to its old start time of 9pm and in July 2013 , TNA announced that they would broadcast five " Impact Wrestling " specials in 2013 starting July 18 , 2013 with Destination X . This was followed by Hardcore Justice , No Surrender , Final Resolution and Turning Point . These specials replaced the PPV events of the same name following TNA changing their Montly PPV format to a quarterly model . On October 24 , 2013 , TNA announced they will be returning to Universal Studios in Orlando , Florida on November 21 , 2013 due to the high cost of production on the road . Impact tapings would be filmed from soundstage 19 , rather than at the original Impact Wrestling Zone at soundtage 21 , but there will still be select tapings on the road from time to time , such as the Genesis " Impact Wrestling " special on January 16 and January 23 , 2014 from the Von Braun Center in Huntsville , Alabama . TNA also announced a new programming initiative called IMPACT365 - Where Action Never Ends , in which cameras provide unprecedented access to the lives of the TNA Superstars . This has been used to make announcements for upcoming shows and for starting new angles and storylines . On January 30 , 2014 , for the first time , Impact Wrestling was broadcast live in the UK on Challenge TV channel before it aired in the US . The show took place at SSE Hydro in Glasgow , Scotland . TNA announced that they will be changing soundstages at Universal Studios Florida again starting with the March 13 , 2014 live broadcast of " Impact Wrestling " . The new soundstage will be soundstage 20 . Final months on Spike ( July 2014 – December 2014 ) . On July 17 , 2014 , after a poll made on the Impact Wrestling website , TNA brought back the six - sided ring permanently . On Aug 14 , 2014 , TNA made the announcement that " Impact Wrestling " would move to Wednesday nights beginning on Aug 20 , 2014 and on August 20 , it was announced that " Impact Wrestling " will continue on Spike for the remainder of 2014 , adding that " Negotiations remain ongoing beyond this time frame . On August 25 , 2014 , TNA has received an offer to have Impact Wrestling on Discovery ’ s latest channel , Velocity . On November 2014 , it was announced Spike TV decided to cancel all wrestling show from his programing . Destination America Era ( January 2015 ) . On November 19th , 2014 , TNA announced that " Impact Wrestling " would move to Destination America starting in January of 2015 . After premiering on Wednesday , January 7 , Impact moved to its permanent slot on Fridays on January 16 . Impact would later begin airing on Wednesdays in June . Also in May , Dave Meltzer of the " Wrestling Observer Newsletter " reported that Destination America had decided to cancel " Impact " by late September 2015 . TNA vehemently denied the report , stating : " These false statements constitute defamation and if necessary we will seek all legal remedies available to us . " The following week Destination America announced that they had signed a 26 - week trial deal with Ring of Honor that would see " Ring of Honor Wrestling " air as " Impact " ' s lead - in which began on June 3 . On June 3 , D ' Angelo Dinero officially joined Josh Mathews as a new addition to the commentary team for " Impact Wrestling " . In a September interview with " Sports Illustrated " , Dixie Carter indicated that " Impact " would remain on Destination America for the rest of the year and discussions regarding 2016 were ongoing . Pop Era ( 2016 - Present ) . On November 19 , 2015 , it was announced " Impact Wrestling " will air Tuesdays at 9 p . m . on Pop beginning January 5 , 2016 . On July 7 , 2016 , it was announced that Impact Wrestling will move to Thursday night beginning July 21 , 2016 . Content . Generally , the show features four to seven matches over the course of the two hours , 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 bookends for the commercial segments . When the show was on Fox Sports Net , all matches had a time limit ( 10 minutes for normal singles matches and 30 minutes for title matches ) 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 , TNA discarded the time limit concept . International Broadcasters . In addition to being broadcast on Destination America in the United States , the show is also broadcast internationally in many different countries .