Last Night, TNA Impact Wrestling made its return to TV in Germany, Switzerland & Austria, airing on DMAX, which is owned by Discovery, TNA’s US Partner and one of the most popular channels in this demographic.
The first ratings in are 220,000 viewers for the first airing.
Comparing this to other wrestling ratings, this past weeks WWE RAW in this same demographic earned 200,000 Viewers, while Smackdown achieved 140,000.
While the success of Impact Wrestling may somewhat be due to the main stream channel it is now airing, one for the most popular and owned by one of the Worlds Largest TV Networks, it shouldnt come as a surprise due to the fact that Impact Wrestling was Germany’s No.1 highest rated wrestling show in 2013, before it went off the air. DMAX.de are said to be extremely satisfied with these numbers.
A very small victory, but a victory for TNA nonetheless. Congratulations to them I guess. :clap Although I don't see this as the beginning of a TNA revival to the stage where they are competing with WWE.
Too bad Germany is ran by a shit government who doesn't allow TNA at an earlier hour. Having to go 11:15 because of some blood? What kind of society is that?
TNA beats Raw here too. Mainly because RAW has been gone for like 15 years and now only broadcasts her episodes 10-12 days later, doing fuck all with the product (no SD, PPV, merch) over here.
If this were to become a regular thing whats the bets that WWE turns this into an opportunity to make a massive German-Heel character? Zero because WWE are fucking stupid.
Yeah, WWE are morons for not creating a xenophobic heel character in response to this news. Its decisions like this why RAW lost half of its audience in this US in 2015.
dmax making fun of raw because of impact's ratings,?? wow....
two questions :where WWE is airing in Germany, free or paid network? Same question for TNA.
yep you are right. i am from austria and cannot get tele5. it is not everywhere availabe in austria (50% of kabelanbieter). in history tele 5 had a little higher viewer audience but dmax is since 2014 getting better.
i assumed dmax to be much bigger.
(However if you watch for typical wrestling watchers dmax has the bigger audience. dmax tries to appear to young men - what makes wwe sensefull for p7max because it is for kids or nerds)
DMAX is growing faster than Tele5. That's why you assumed it's bigger.
Tele5 has a history with wrestling programming. They aired Smackdown for many years,
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