'TNA iMPACT!' on Spike TV Moves to Monday Nights Beginning March 8

'TNA iMPACT!' on Spike TV Moves to Monday Nights Beginning March 8

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NEW YORK, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- "TNA iMPACT!," Spike TV's highly-rated two-hour weekly series, is moving from Thursday nights to Monday nights beginning Monday, March 8 (9:00-11:00pm ET/PT), it was announced today by TNA President Dixie Carter and legendary pop culture icon Hulk Hogan at a press conference at the "TNA iMPACT! Zone" at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.

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"TNA iMPACT!" will air live on March 8, with subsequent telecasts live every other week. The series features many of the biggest names in wrestling including Hogan, Ric Flair, Mick Foley and Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, as well as the hottest young talent in the industry: TNA World Heavyweight Champion "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles, "The Samoan Submission Machine" Samoa Joe and "The Blueprint" Matt Morgan.

The first-ever Monday live "TNA iMPACT" broadcast on Spike TV, ran as a special head-to-head against WWE RAW on Monday, January 4, 2010, and drew a franchise-record 2.2 million viewers. The two wrestling companies have not broadcast head-to-head weekly since the "Monday Night Wars" in the late 1990s between WWE and WCW.

"On January 4, wrestling fans showed us they're ready for a new professional wrestling alternative on Monday nights and we're answering that call. Bringing 'iMPACT!' to Mondays is our most exciting move yet in a year that's already been filled with huge milestones for TNA," said Carter.

"Monday nights are now officially the best night of the week to be a fan of professional wrestling," Hogan said. "My mantra has been 'change is coming' since partnering with Dixie Carter and TNA Wrestling. This change is great for the business and all fans of professional wrestling will benefit because of it."

"'TNA iMPACT!' has emerged as one of cable's top performers with young men," said Spike TV President Kevin Kay. "With NFL Football off the television schedule and with 'TNA iMPACT's' expanding roster of top wrestling talent, we see this as an opportunity to tap into the millions of wrestling fans on Monday nights."

Since its founding in 2002, Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling has become the world's fastest-growing professional wrestling company, currently airing in over 120 countries worldwide.

About TNA Wrestling

"Cross The Line" to TNA Wrestling. TNA Wrestling is the most innovative experience in professional wrestling today. Join the TNA World Heavyweight Champion "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles, Hulk Hogan, Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, Sting, Mick Foley, "The Samoan Submission Machine" Samoa Joe, "The Blueprint" Matt Morgan, the lovely and lethal TNA Knockouts and the no-limits X-Division inside the ring on "TNA iMPACT!" Monday nights (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) beginning March 8 on Spike TV.

TNA Entertainment, LLC is a privately held company headquartered in Nashville, TN.

About Spike TV

Spike TV is available in 98.6 million homes and is a division of MTV Networks. A unit of Viacom (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:VIA.B), MTV Networks is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. Spike TV's Internet address is Spike.com and for up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs, visit Spike TV's press site at http://www.spike.com/press.

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CONTACT: David Schwarz, Spike TV, +1-212-767-8639,
david.schwarz@mtvstaff.com, or Steven Godfrey, TNA Wrestling, +1-615-244-5557,
sgodfrey@tnawrestling.com

Web Site: http://www.spike.com/

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