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Impact Wrestling
Presented by	Spike TV
Starring	TNA roster
Opening theme	"Sinister Rise Above Instrumental" by Dale Oliver
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	10
No. of episodes	546 (as of November 19, 2014)
Production
Camera setup	Multicamera setup
Running time	2 hours (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	Fox Sports Net (2004 – 2005) Webcast (2005) Urban America Television (2005) Spike (2005 – 2014) Destination America (2015 – )
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Original airing	June 4, 2004
Chronology
Related shows	TNA Xplosion TNA Today
External links
Website

Impact Wrestling (stylized as IMPACT WRESTLING and formerly known as TNA iMPACT!) is a professional wrestling television program for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). As of January 31, 2025, it airs weekly on Spike in the United States and Canada.

Impact Wrestling originally debuted in the United States on 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 Xplosion) and on the internet between June 24 and September 16, 2005 before securing a deal with 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 in January of 2015.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Fox Sports Net era (May 2004 – May 2005) 1.2 Webcasts (July 2005 – October 2005) 1.3 Spike TV era (October 2005 – December 2014) 1.3.1 Two hour expansion (October 2007 – present) 1.3.2 Move to Mondays (March 2010 – May 2010) 1.3.3 Return to Thursday Nights (May 2010 – 2011) 1.3.4 Re-branding to Impact Wrestling (May 2011 – July 2014) 1.3.5 Final months on Spike (July 2014 – December 2014) 1.4 Move to Destination America (January 2015) 2 Content 2.1 Roster 2.2 Commentators 2.3 Management Director 2.4 Special episodes 2.5 Recurring segments 3 References 4 External links 5 See also

History

Fox Sports Net era (May 2004 – May 2005)

Webcasts (July 2005 – October 2005)

Spike TV era (October 2005 – December 2014)

Two hour expansion (October 2007 – present)

Due to further viewership growth, Impact! was expanded to two hours on October 4, 2007, still starting at the same time of 9pm.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On January 17, 2008, Spike presented an event entitled "Global Impact!", which featured TNA wrestlers in matches against talents from New Japan Pro Wrestling<ref>Total Nonstop Action Wrestling On Spike TV!</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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> however, in May 2011, the show was picked up by Australian Network FuelTV, which began airing it every Saturday at 8:30 pm AEST, starting on June 11.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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 in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. TNA also made the transition to HD for this broadcast and announced that all future episodes would be broadcast in High Definition.

Move to Mondays (March 2010 – May 2010)

Return to Thursday Nights (May 2010 – 2011)

Re-branding to Impact Wrestling (May 2011 – July 2014)

Final months on Spike (July 2014 – December 2014)

Move to Destination America (January 2015)

Content