TNA Impact shows minor drop in viewers
TNA Impact ratings last night showed a minor decline from the past two weeks with last night’s 9 p.m. show doing 295,000 viewers and the midnight show doing 112,000 viewers.
The show, built around Matt Hardy vs. Kurt Angle, was the final of the Bethlehem tapings, as next week will be the first of six weeks of shows taped in the U.K. before much larger crowds.
The 9 p.m. show on 1/26 did 339,000 viewers and the midnight replay did 103,000. The combined number on 1/19 was almost identical, both about eight percent higher than last night.
There was little in the way of significant sports competition last night, as the highest rated sports show on television head-to-head was Indiana vs. Michigan college basketball on ESPN that did 1,042,000 viewers.
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