Report: Frontrunner For New TNA TV Deal Revealed

TNA IMPACT has aired on AXS TV for the past several years in the United States, but TNA President Carlos Silva has suggested in recent weeks that the promotion could be in a 60-to-90-day window to sign a new media rights deal with another network.

Silva noted TNA would be looking to air IMPACT live every week as part of the possible new TV deal, and the company was hoping for a media rights deal that would bring in between 250,000 and 500,000 viewers for IMPACT on a network that is in 40 to 50 million homes. TNA would be looking to pocket around $10 million per year from the deal.

TNA have held talks with several networks over a possible US TV deal, and Dave Meltzer reported on Wrestling Observer Radio that A&E are considered the frontrunner for any deal.

"If it's A&E, look at what WWE is doing on A&E, they're at like 100,000 viewers, which is what TNA is doing on AXS. And A&E is the frontrunner that you hear about for if they're going to get a deal, and I don't know if the deal is done," Meltzer said.

This follows a Q&A from PWInsider which noted that WWE sources believe A&E could end up being the home of TNA, although those discussions had quietened in recent weeks.

WWE LFG currently airs on A&E and the first season of the show averaged 155,000 viewers and between 0.04 and 0.05 in the key 18-49 demographic. Season two, however, has averaged around 100,000 viewers and between 0.03 and 0.04 in the 18-49 demo.

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