TNA Scaling Way Back on Number of Annual Pay-Per-View Events

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TNA was planning to reduce the amount of pay-per-view events down from their usual 12 live broadcasts a year. TNA has decided to cut their 2013 pay-per-view schedule even more then we had originally reported.

Headed into 2013, TNA will only produce four live pay-per-view events for the entire year according to a press release that was sent out earlier today. Those events include:

* Genesis on January 13, 2013
* Lockdown on March 10th, 2013
* Slammiversary on June 9th, 2013
* Bound for Glory on October 13th, 2013

The remaining months, the company will produce taped pay-per-views that will be titled under the "TNA: One Night Only" banner, airing on the first Friday evening of the month before and replaying over the remainder of the. Those shows will remain three hours.

as long as it tours more regular shows to get new crowds in, like the UK shows, then this is okay. I thought they might just scrap some ppv events though, not just record them. Dixie definitely wants to tour the show more though. I guess we can see how the month of UK shows went soon.

is iMpact not live anymore then ... i new when they came over here it wouldnt be live but it thought it was still in america

I guess impact might be live in feb, after the uk shows have played. I'm assuming they basically get a month off as recording one month in 2 days leaves a long time until the next live show. I can only assume if they are doing live impact then it's less pressure to tape 8 ppv's a year to make the schedule easier.

I'm not sure how the TNA ONE NIGHT ONLY makes sense if it's 8 times a year either lol.

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TNA IMPACT WRESTLING today announced a new worldwide Pay-Per-View programming initiative for 2013. The 52 annual episodes of IMPACT WRESTLING on SpikeTV will lead to four, live epic Pay-Per-View events commencing with "Genesis" on January 13th, "Lockdown" on March 10th, "Slammiversary" on June 9 and "Bound For Glory" on October 13th.

In addition, seven Pay-Per-View specials that will be branded as "TNA Wrestling: One Night Only," series will debut in April 2013 and continue throughout the year during the additional months. The 3-hour taped Pay-Per-View specials will premiere on the first Friday of each month. The first two "One Night Only" specials will be "Joker's Wild Tag Team Tournament" and "X-travaganza" which will feature the X-Division.

"The Pay-Per-View industry has changed so much in the last decade," says TNA President Dixie Carter. "The traditional pay-per-view wrestling model needed to evolve and we believe this strategy will positively impact not only the Pay-Per-View events but the weekly television programming as well."

The company will continue to produce TNA Wrestling's "Unfinished Business", which are one-hour programs available on a Video on Demand (VOD) basis. The monthly titles continue to focus on the history of a rivalry or a specific past PPV event. These titles are available for two months at a time.

This makes no sense to me what so ever. So 4 live ppv's and 4 recordings of impact in one night then shown over 4 weeks. Am I right?

Think it would be over a couple a days.

one of there taped PPV is going to be just knockout matches how do you all think that is going to go down ?

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one of there taped PPV is going to be just knockout matches how do you all think that is going to go down ?

Not well unless Gail Kim faces Awesome Kong for 7 hours!

They've already taped 2 PPVs there TNA Joker's Wild Tag Team Tournament PPV & TNA X-travaganza.

This rate it'll be months behind.

it means they have some long term fucking plans for once.

I'm not fussed as long as it gives the giant roster the chance to perform more.