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Nous vous apprenions, un peu plus tôt aujourd’hui, que RDS ne diffusera plus Impact Wrestling.
Une nouvelle surprenante?
Pas tant que ca si la nouvelle, qui circule actuellement sur Reddit (inspirée supposément du Wrestling Observer Newsletter, par le biais de Dave Meltzer), est vraie…
“Just days before the move was announced, Destination America made the decision to cancel TNA Wrestling, with the time frame given at the end of the third quarter (roughly the last week of September, when the current television season ends). Key people at the Discovery Channel network were informed of the decision at that point.
The word internally was that while they considered the ratings good, the ratings were not good enough to justify the cost of the programming. The other problem was that so many regular station advertisers specifically did not want to advertise on the show.
It should be noted that when the word was sent out, it was stated specifically that TNA would remain on Friday nights, with original episodes, until that point, and informing people for the fall season plans for Friday nights. Just days later, they were moved to Wednesday.
The decision was meant to be kept secret, very much like Spike kept secret publicly last year its decision to drop TNA for months after the decision was made and reported. It doesn’t serve the station or the promotion any good to publicly cancel the show this far in advance. The public acknowledgment was expected to come around the time the station listed its 2015-16 television season prime time lineup with the launch of up front advertising.”
En résumé, Destination America aurait pris la décision de terminer dès la fin septembre son association avec la TNA.
Les cotes d’écoute étaient bonnes, mais pas suffisamment pour continuer l’aventure. Et certains commanditaires ne voulaient pas être associés avec Impact Wrestling.
Voici par ailleurs une capture d’écran du Newsletter – qui semble crédible – circulant sur Twitter depuis quelques minutes. Meltzer avait, en début de semaine, confirmé que Destination America pouvait rompre son contrat avec la TNA en septembre, selon une clause spéciale ajoutée au contrat. À suivre…
TNA was given word by Destination America of its cancellation days before the move to Wednesday nights. pic.twitter.com/j8k839b2E3
— DTAM (@DeathToAllMarks) May 21, 2015
MISE À JOUR: WrestlingInc. confirme que Meltzer a bel et bien rapporté la nouvelle.
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