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Q Okay. Can you walk us through the organizational structure of TNA Wrestling?

A Currently?

Q Uh-huh.

A Currently we finally had some dollars to hire some people to do some stuff. We have the company is -- it centers around the creative process. It is -- really, we're scripted television. And up until just recently and in our future plans for 2008, we've done nothing but be a television production company. We didn't tour. We held, on average, three shows a month all for television purposes. So under that, the biggest part of our group would be the creative guys who write and script the television show. And then we have the production company who -- you know, the director, the producers and the truck and then those people. And these are all just day workers for us. But we do have a production crew that comes in on day of show. And we have very bare, like, up until recently, one PR person, one marketing person that we just hired earlier this year. We have a licensing -- two people in licensing. We do our toys through Marvel, which does Spiderman and the Incredible Hulk. We have a video coming out in May of '08 with Midway. So that is a division that has grown with us through our television exposure. Then -- excuse me, one more, International. We take our domestic television show and then we license it internationally as well.

Q Okay. Can you describe the employment relationship between

A The what relationship?

Q The employment relationship between your talent -­I'm going to ask this question in two parts. First, your creative talent. Is your creative talent, are they full-time staff or are they brought in on a --

A No. They are all independent contractors, but we do have a contract with them. Up until just recently, our 9 talent -- when we first started, they were on literally four weeks at a time and we only had a few of them because we didn't know how long we were going to stay in business. And then we signed more. But because we only worked with them if every single guy was on every show which would never happen anyway, the most they could work would be 36 times a year with us which was on average three times a month. But we did have them under contract just where they could not go work for the only competitor that we would care about, which would be the WWE, but we allowed them -- there is a multitude of other organizations, domestically and internationally, wrestling companies that they also worked for.

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