TNA iMPACT!

TNA iMPACT! is the flagship television program for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The show has been filmed at the iMPACT! Zone (Soundstage 21 at Universal Studios Florida theme park of Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida) and other locations around the world.
==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 (2016-2019)===
On November 19, 2015, it was announced Impact Wrestling will air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on POP TV beginning January 5, 2016. On July 7, 2016, it was announced that Impact Wrestling will move to Thursday night beginning July 21, 2016.
Impact Wrestling announced that the Impact Wrestling would air on Spike in the UK beginning April 21. This would be the first time since December 2016 that Impact Wrestling would air in the UK after they lost their deal with Challenge.
===Pursuit Channel (2019)===
On January 11, 2019 Impact moved to the Pursuit Channel, airing on Fridays at 10pm Eastern. The show was simulcast on Twitch.tv at the same time.
=== AXS TV (2019 - present) ===
Impact moved to AXS TV on October 29, 2019, airing weekly on Tuesdays at 8pm eastern and continuing to be simulcast on Twitch.tv.
==Content==
 
Channel 	Years
Fox Sports Net 	2004
FSN 	2005
Spike TV 	2005–06
Spike TV 	2006
Spike TV 	2006–07
Spike TV 	2007–10
Spike TV 	2010
Spike TV 	2010
Spike TV 	2010–12
Spike TV 	2012–13
Spike TV 	2013–14
Spike TV 	2014
Destination America 	2015
Destination America 	2015
Destination America 	2015
POP TV 	2016
Pop 	2016– 2019
Pursuit ChannelTwitch.tv	January 11, 2019 - October 18, 2019
AXS TVTwitch.tv 	October 29, 2019 - March 30, 2021
AXS TVTwitch.tv 	April 8, 2021 - July 29, 2021
AXS TV 	July 29, 2021 - present
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.
==Bound For Glory Series (2011)==
*Bound For Glory Series
==Commentators==
Commentators 	Dates
Mike Tenay & Don West 	June 4, 2004 – August 13, 2009
Mike Tenay and Jim Cornette 	December 14, 2006
Mike Tenay & Taz 	August 20, 2009 – October 18, 2012October 25, 2012 – November 8, 2012 (second hour)June 6, 2013 – July 11, 2013August 15, 2013 – November 19, 2014
Todd Keneley and Jeremy Borash 	October 25, 2012 – November 8, 2012 (first hour)
Todd Keneley, Mike Tenay and Taz 	November 15, 2012 – May 30, 2013
Mike Tenay and Jeremy Borash 	November 1, 2012 (second hour)July 18, 2013 – August 1, 2013January 30, 2014 – February 6, 2014
Jeremy Borash and Taz 	August 8, 2013
Josh Mathews and Taz 	January 7, 2015 – April 10, 2015
Josh Mathews and Al Snow 	May 1, 2015May 29, 2015
Josh Mathews 	April 17, 2015 – April 24, 2015May 8, 2015
Josh Mathews and D'Angelo Dinero 	May 22, 2015 – March 2, 2017
Josh Mathews, Jeremy Borash and D'Angelo Dinero	March 9, 2017 – August 10, 2017
Josh Mathews and Jeremy Borash 	August 17, 2017 – February 1, 2018
Josh Mathews and Sonjay Dutt 	February 8, 2018 – April 19, 2018
Josh Mathews and Don Callis 	April 26, 2018 – March 24, 2020
Josh Mathews and Madison Rayne 	March 31, 2020 – January 12, 2021
Matt Striker and D'Lo Brown 	January 19, 2021 – May 20, 2021July 22, 2021 – January 6, 2022
Josh Mathews and D'Lo Brown 	May 27, 2021 – July 15, 2021
Tom Hannifan and D'Lo Brown 	January 13, 2022
Tom Hannifan and Matthew Rehwoldt 	January 27, 2022 – present
==Special Episodes==
Episode Title 	Date 	Rating 	Note
Live iMPACT! 	March 27, 2008 	1.0 	
Live HD iMPACT! 	October 23, 2008 	1.1 	
Impact! 200 	July 30, 2009 	1.3 	
Super Impact! 	October 15, 2009 	1.0 	
New Years Knockout Eve 	December 31, 2009 	0.6 	
Monday Night iMPACT! 	January 4, 2010 	1.5 	
The Whole F'n Show 	August 12, 2010 	1.2 	
Before the Glory 	October 7, 2010 	1.3 	
Impact from London 	February 2, 2012 	1.15 	
Destination X 	July 18, 2013 	1.16 	
Hardcore Justice 	August 15, 2013 and August 22, 2013 	0.99 / 1.03	
No Surrender 	September 12, 2013 	1.08 	
Turning Point 	November 21, 2013 	0.95 	
Final Resolution 	December 19, 2013 	1.06 	
Genesis 	January 16, 2014 and January 23, 2014	1.08 /1.21 	
Impact from Scotland 	January 30, 2014 	1.14 	
Champions Showcase 	July 10, 2014 	1.02 	
Destination X 	July 31, 2014 	1.02 	
Hardcore Justice 	August 20, 2014 	0.65 	
No Surrender 	September 17, 2014 	0.88 	
Lockdown 	February 6, 2015 	0.52 	
TKO: A Night of Knockouts 	April 24, 2015 	0.46 	
Hardcore Justice (2015) 	May 1, 2015 	0.52 	
May Mayhem 	May 29, 2015 	TBA 	
Destination X 	June 10, 2015 	TBA 	
Bell to Bell 	July 1, 2015 	TBA 	
No Surrender 	August 5, 2015 	327,000 	
TNA vs GFW Supershow 	August 12, 2015 	270,000 	
Turning Point 	August 19, 2015 	323,000 	
#WinnerTakeAll 	September 16, 2015 	258,000 	
Impact Wrestling 600th episode	January 12, 2016 	TBA 	
==Recurring segments==
Segment 	Type 	Host(s) 	Years Active 	Notes
Rough Cut 	Interview segment 	N/A 	February 2008 - April 2009 	
$25,000 Fan Challenge 	Wrestling Challenge	Awesome Kongw/ Raisha Saeed	May 2008 - July 2008 	
Karen's Angle 	Interview segment 	Karen Angle 	July 2008 - October 2008 	
ODB's Angle / Trash Talking with ODB	Interview segment 	ODB 	November 2008 - December 2009 	
Hardcore History 101 	Interview segment 	Mick Foley 	February 2009 - April 2009 	
Off the Wagon Challenge 	Wrestling challenge	Beer Money Inc. 	February 2009 - April 2009 	
Double J Double M A Open Challenge 	MMA challenge 	Jeff Jarrett 	December 9, 2010 – January 6, 2011	
Championship Thursday 	Title match 	Hulk Hogan 	September 2012 – December 2012 	
Gut Check Challenge 	Wrestling challenge	Jeremy Borash 	April 2012 – July 2013 	
Open Fight Night 	Wrestling challenge	TNA Roster 	April 2012 – June 2013 	
Gail Kim's Open Challenge 	Wrestling challenge	Gail Kimw/Lei'D Tapa 	November 2013 – January 2014 	
==International Broadcasters==
Country 	Network 	Online
Canada 	Fight NetworkGameTV 	Impact PlusTwitch
IndiaBangladeshNepalSri LankaPakistan 	Sony Ten 2 	Impact PlusTwitch
Sub-Saharan Africa 	eTV 	Impact PlusTwitch
United KingdomIreland 	Wednesdays at 10 pm on FreeSports	Impact PlusTwitch
Mexico 	MVS TV 	Impact PlusTwitch
Philippines 	TAP DMV 	Impact PlusTwitch
ItalyPortugalTurkeyGreeceBulgariaBosnia and HerzegovinaSerbiaMontenegro	Fight Network 	Impact PlusTwitch
==Previous Logos==
Impact Logo Ver 1.0.jpg|(2004-2005)
Impact Logo Ver 2.0.jpg|(2006)
Impact Logo Ver 3.0.jpg|(2007)
Impact Logo Ver 4.0.jpg|(2008-2010)
Impact Logo Ver 5.0.jpg|(2011-2014)
Impact logo 2017.png|(2014-2015)
Impact_Logo_2015.jpg|(2015-2017)
ImpactWrestlingNewLogo-2.png|(2017-2019)
ImpactWrestlinglogoJan.2019.jpg|(January 11, 2019 - October 29, 2019)
Impact Wrestling AXSTV logo.jpg|(2019 - 2023)
==Stage==
Impact Zone 1.0.jpg|(June 2004 - Sept 2005)
Impact Zone 2.0.jpg|(Oct 2005 - Sept 2008)
Impact Zone 3.0.jpg|(Oct 2008 - Dec 2009)
Impact Zone 4.0.jpg|(Jan 2010 - 2012)
Impact Zone 5.0.jpg|(2013 - May 2014)
Impact Zone 6.0.jpg|(June 2014- Dec 2014)
Impact Zone 7.0.jpg|(Jan 2015)
Impact Zone 8.0.jpg|(Jan 2015 - March 20, 2015)
Impact Wrestling Zone 2015 New Set Ver 2.0 Part1.jpg
TNA Impact Wrestling Stage Jan 5-9, 2016 Part1.jpg| (Jan 5-9, 2016)
TNA Impact Wrestling Stage Jan 5-9, 2016 Part2.jpg| (Jan 5-9, 2016)
TNA Impact Wrestling Stage Jan 5-9, 2016 Part3.jpg| (Jan 5-9, 2016)
TNA Impact Wrestling Stage Jan 5-9, 2016 Part4.jpg| (Jan 5-9, 2016)
TNA Impact Wrestling Stage Jan 5-9, 2016 Part5.jpg| (Jan 5-9, 2016)
TNA Impact Wrestling Stage Jan 5-9, 2016 Part6.jpg| (Jan 5-9, 2016)
==External links ==
*TNA Wrestling.com
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