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| - | | align="center" colspan=2 bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; font-size:130%;" |<span style="color: #000000;">'''Impact Wrestling'''</span><br>
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''Presented by'''
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| - | | bgcolor="#ffffff" |[[Spike TV (TV Channel)|Spike TV]]
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''Starring'''
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| - | | bgcolor="#ffffff" |[[List of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling employees|TNA roster]]
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''Opening theme'''
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| - | | bgcolor="#ffffff" |"Sinister Rise Above Instrumental" by Dale Oliver
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''Country of origin'''
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| - | | bgcolor="#ffffff" |[[United States of America|United States]]
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''No. of seasons'''
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| - | | bgcolor="#ffffff" |10
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''No. of episodes'''
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| - | | bgcolor="#ffffff" |546 (as of November 19, 2014)
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| - | | bgcolor=#D8D8D8 align="center" colspan="2" |'''Production'''
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''Camera setup'''
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''Running time'''
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| - | | bgcolor="#ffffff" |2 hours (including commercials)
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| - | | bgcolor=#D8D8D8 align="center" colspan="2" |'''Broadcast'''
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''Original channel'''
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| - | | bgcolor="#ffffff" |[[Fox Sports Net (TV Network)|Fox Sports Net]] {{small|(2004 – 2005)}}<br>Webcast {{small|(2005)}}<br>Urban America Television {{small|(2005)}}<br>[[Spike TV (TV Nortwork)|Spike]] {{small|(2005 – 2014)}}<br>[[Destination America (TV Network)|Destination America]] {{small|(2015 – )}}
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''Picture format'''
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| - | | bgcolor="#ffffff" |480i (SDTV)<br>1080i (HDTV)
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''Original airing'''
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| - | | bgcolor="#ffffff" |June 4, 2004
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| - | | bgcolor=#D8D8D8 align="center" colspan="2" |'''Chronology'''
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |'''Related shows'''
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| - | | bgcolor="#ffffff" |[[TNA Xplosion]]<br>[[TNA Today]]
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| - | | bgcolor=#D8D8D8 align="center" colspan="2" |'''External links'''
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| - | | bgcolor=white align="center" colspan="2" |'''Website'''
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| - | '''''Impact Wrestling''''' (stylized as '''''IMPACT WRESTLING''''' and formerly known as '''''TNA iMPACT!''''') is a [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestling]] [[Television Program|television program]] for [[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling]] (TNA). {{As of|2005}}, it airs weekly on [[Spike TV (TV Network)|Spike]] in the [[United States of America|United States]] and [[Canada]].
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| - | ''Impact Wrestling'' originally debuted in the United States on [[Fox Sports Net (TV Network)|Fox Sports Net]] on June 4, 2004, but after TNA's contract was not renegotiated in May 2005, the show was left without a television network to broadcast on. The show began broadcasting episodes via syndication in limited markets on [[Urban America Television]] (replacing TNA's syndicated show [[TNA Xplosion|Xplosion]]) and on the [[Internet|internet]] between June 24 and September 16, 2005 before securing a deal with [[Spike TV (TV Network)|Spike TV]] (now known as Spike), with the first show airing on 1 October 2005. The show first began airing episodes on Saturday nights, however in April 2006 the show was moved to Thursday nights. ''Impact Wrestling'' briefly moved to Monday nights in 2010 but moved back to Thursdays later that year. In August 2014 ''Impact Wrestling'' moved to Wednesday nights, In November 2014 it was announced that ''Impact Wrestling'' would move to [[Destination America (TV Network)|Destination America]] in January of 2015.
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| - | ==History==
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| - | ===Fox Sports Net era (May 2004 – May 2005)===
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| - | ===Webcasts (July 2005 – October 2005)===
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| - | ===Spike TV era (October 2005 – December 2014)===
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| - | ====Two hour expansion (October 2007 – present)====
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| - | Due to further viewership growth, ''Impact!'' was expanded to two hours on October 4, 2007, still starting at the same time of 9pm.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.tnawrestling.com/news/fullnews2.php?all=1522|title=TNA Wrestling Goes Two Hours On SpikeTV Starting October 4| accessdate=2007-09-10|date= 2007-09-09|publisher=Total Nonstop Action Wrestling}}</ref> On January 17, 2008, Spike presented an event entitled "[[TNA Global Impact!|Global Impact!]]", which featured TNA wrestlers in matches against talents from [[New Japan Pro Wrestling]]<ref>[http://www.tnawrestling.com/news/item/1687 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling On Spike TV!<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and on March 27, 2008, ''Impact!'' aired live for the first time in the show's history in its regular timeslot. Announced in a release on TNAwrestling.com on April 2, 2008, TNA came to terms on a deal that had the show airing in [[Australia]] starting April 5. Up until then, they had only broadcast their monthly pay-per-view events on Main Event in Australia. The contract expired in March 2011 and was not renewed,<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1301170843|title=TNA Wrestling now off television in Australia|date=2011-03-26|last=Martin|first=Adam|accessdate=2011-06-01|work=WrestleView}}</ref> however, in May 2011, the show was picked up by Australian Network [[Fuel TV Australia|FuelTV]], which began airing it every Saturday at 8:30 pm AEST, starting on June 11.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1304468644|title=Release: TNA returns to TV in Australia on June 11|date=2011-05-03|last=Martin|first=Adam|accessdate=2011-06-01|work=WrestleView}}</ref> On October 23, 2008, TNA aired its first ''Impact!'' filmed outside of the Impact Wrestling Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was broadcast from the [[The Joint (music venue)|The Joint]] in the [[Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas)|Hard Rock Hotel and Casino]] in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]]. TNA also made the transition to [[High-definition television|HD]] for this broadcast and announced that all future episodes would be broadcast in High Definition.
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| - | ====Move to Mondays (March 2010 – May 2010)====
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| - | ====Return to Thursday Nights (May 2010 – 2011)====
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| - | ====Re-branding to Impact Wrestling (May 2011 – July 2014)====
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| - | ====Final months on Spike (July 2014 – December 2014)====
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| - | === Move to Destination America (January 2015)===
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| - | ==Content==
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| - | ! style="text-align: center; background: #e3e3e3; "|Channel {{small|(timeslot)}}
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| - | ! style="text-align: center; background: #e3e3e3; "|Years
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| - | ===Roster===
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| - | : ''Main article: [[List of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling employees]]''
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| - | ===Commentators===
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| - | ! Commentators || Dates
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| - | |[[Mike Tenay]] and [[Don West]]
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| - | |June 4, 2004 – August 13, 2009
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| - | |Mike Tenay and [[Tazz|Taz]]
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| - | |August 20, 2009 – October 18, 2012<br>October 25, 2012 – November 8, 2012 (second hour)<br>June 6, 2013 – July 11, 2013<br>August 15, 2013 – present
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| - | |Todd Keneley and [[Jeremy Borash]]
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| - | |October 25, 2012 – November 8, 2012 (first hour)
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| - | |November 15, 2012 – May 30, 2013
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| - | ===Management Director===
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| - | : ''Main article [[Authority Figures#Total Nonstop Action Wrestling authority figures|Total Nonstop Action Wrestling authority figures]]
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| - | ===Special episodes===
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| - | ===Recurring segments===
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| - | ==References==
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| - | ==External links==
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| - | ==See also==
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| - | *''[[TNA Home Video]]''
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