This is a massive upgrade, just from a positioning perspective. AMC is a top 40 network in the US, and AXS doesn’t even make the top 125. Plus AMC has their own streaming service.
It’s a bit of an odd fit, since AMC isn’t really a sports/events network. They’re mostly about movies and prestige television (The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Interview With The Vampire). But it will result in TNA being in a lot more homes.
TNA to AMC is a multi-year U.S. rights deal is around $30M. With 1.15.26 set as the launch date, sources also indicate WWE intends to end its NXT–TNA partnership as agreement includes a 60-day termination clause, and the AMC deal activates it.
So TNA gets a tv deal, and the TNA/NXT partnership ends as a result supposedly.
Seems like the first company to full on partner with WWE and come out of it with more than they lost.
WWE snagged a couple wrestlers who woulda been on their way out by now anyway and helped get TNA on tv to be another ratings-based thorn in the side for AEW, and TNA gets a tv deal, out from under WWE’s thumb with their company intact, and a bag of money they needed.
We won’t know 100% until later of course, but feels good to me. AMC is a much bigger name than AXS TV (or at least I would have to assume, I’m not American) but I’m also not sure the comparable viewership reach or viewing specifics (are either channels free tv? do you have to pay for one vs the other to view? pricing? no clue).
But it will be the first time the at-the-moment big 3 in NA wrestling are on television since Monday Night Wars era WWF/WCW/ECW.
This is all of course dependent highly on TNA’s ratings and what time slot they get. If TNA pulls 30 viewers for a 3am Saturday morning slow they’ll be gone in a week, if they pull 100k in prime time they’ll be more than fine.
Is this good or bad?
From history, any TNA broadcaster changes have been a downgrade.
This is a massive upgrade, just from a positioning perspective. AMC is a top 40 network in the US, and AXS doesn’t even make the top 125. Plus AMC has their own streaming service.
It’s a bit of an odd fit, since AMC isn’t really a sports/events network. They’re mostly about movies and prestige television (The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Interview With The Vampire). But it will result in TNA being in a lot more homes.
100%. Makes me wonder if they’re desperate for content.
More deets:
TNA to AMC is a multi-year U.S. rights deal is around $30M. With 1.15.26 set as the launch date, sources also indicate WWE intends to end its NXT–TNA partnership as agreement includes a 60-day termination clause, and the AMC deal activates it.
So TNA gets a tv deal, and the TNA/NXT partnership ends as a result supposedly.
Well that sounds good at least.
Seems like the first company to full on partner with WWE and come out of it with more than they lost.
WWE snagged a couple wrestlers who woulda been on their way out by now anyway and helped get TNA on tv to be another ratings-based thorn in the side for AEW, and TNA gets a tv deal, out from under WWE’s thumb with their company intact, and a bag of money they needed.
Did not expect it to go like this lmao
We won’t know 100% until later of course, but feels good to me. AMC is a much bigger name than AXS TV (or at least I would have to assume, I’m not American) but I’m also not sure the comparable viewership reach or viewing specifics (are either channels free tv? do you have to pay for one vs the other to view? pricing? no clue).
But it will be the first time the at-the-moment big 3 in NA wrestling are on television since Monday Night Wars era WWF/WCW/ECW.
This is all of course dependent highly on TNA’s ratings and what time slot they get. If TNA pulls 30 viewers for a 3am Saturday morning slow they’ll be gone in a week, if they pull 100k in prime time they’ll be more than fine.