How TNA On Pop Audience Compared To Spike TV And Destination America Premieres, Highest Rated Show

As Marc noted earlier, last night's TNA Impact Wrestling premiere on Pop TV drew 255,000 viewers. It was down 5% from the last 9pm airing of Impact on Destination America, which drew 269,000 viewers. Here is how the number fares against their premieres on Destination America and Spike TV:

Oct 1, 2005: 670,000 (-62%) for Spike TV premiere
Nov 19, 2014: 980,000 (-74%) for last first-run episode on Spike TV
Jan 7, 2015: 359,000 (-29%) for Destination America premiere
Jan 16, 2015: 387,000 (-34%) for debut on Friday nights on Destination America
Jun 3, 2015: 297,000 (-14%) for debut on Wednesday nights on Destination America

The most-watched episode of Impact Wrestling in history remains the January 10th episode, which aired on a Monday night against RAW and averaged 2.2 million viewers. The first hour – which was unopposed – was viewed by a whopping 2.5 million viewers, while the second hour averaged 2 million viewers head-to-head with RAW.

The second most-watched episode of Impact Wrestling was on Thursday, October 20, 2011 and averaged over 2.2 million viewers.