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Dixie Carter Comments On TNA's Success, Competing With WWE, Impact's Future, More
Written by Richard Gray on Jun 30, 2009 - 1:43:25 PM
The official TNA website has a new interview with President Dixie Carter. Below are the highlights:
Regarding recent success: "I think we have accomplished more in the last six- to 12-months than we have in the last several years," Carter said. "I look at our ratings over the last year, and they are up more than 20 percent."
When asked about the ratings for WWE's three main shows relatively flat:
"We actually don't want that to happen," Carter said. "We want everyone's ratings to go up. In order to succeed, we don't think we have to take ratings away from anyone else. As a wrestling industry, we all have to grow the fan-base worldwide.
"We can't just say we're going to beat Raw (in the ratings). Right now, that's unrealistic. We had to start with a more obtainable goal to beat the ratings of our competitor's third-rated show, ECW - and we've done that.
"I have heard people say, 'It's not a big deal to beat their lowest rated show,' but I disagree. It's a huge success for TNA, which five years ago had just 300,000 viewers in a Friday afternoon timeslot on Fox Sports. So now we're setting our sights on their second-rated show, Smackdown - and that gap has closed significantly over the past six months."
Impact's future on Thursday nights: "Nothing is set in stone, but no move is being planned right now. Our goal has always been to be competitive and go head-to-head against one of our competitor’s programs. So we hope that might happen sometime in the future."
Carter comments on numerous other topic such as developing younger workers, word association and more. Click here to read the full interview.
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