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Originally Posted by HeroInBlack
If you are TNA, why on earth would you want to move your show to Monday and go head to head with WWE? It would seem that they could get more of an audience on a night when there isn't a WWE show going on. It sounds a lot like the USFL's ill-fated move to run its season during the same time of year as the NFL instead of keeping it in the summer where it was doing just fine.
Someone please show me the error in my logic.
It's actually quite simple if you think about it. It's the same reason why this wrestling thread gets like 50 posts or more when it's Monday and barely any posts when Smackdown is on, on Fridays even though Smackdown is the much more superior show.
It's also the same reason that Roh and Dragon Gate USA and countless other indies have a show during Wrestlemania weekend. They know that wrestling fans by habit remember to tune into Raw on Mondays and that it's wrestling night.
As ridiculous as it sounds, a lot of people still don't even know what TNA is and when to find their programming on Thursday nights. Didn't RVD say that he didn't even know that TNA was on Thursdays? These are the wrestling fans that TNA is trying to capture. The hardcore wrestling fans will always tune into TNA no matter what but for TNA to grow they need to capture some of the more casual fans who would only tune into a wrestling program if there isn't a big football game or something else to watch etc. These are not the fans that would go out of their way to go watch wrestling on a Thursday night.
By moving to Mondays like everyone has said, TNA hopes to bring awareness to their product from the people who watch Raw religiously. Sometimes people would be channel flipping and realize there's another wrestling program on Mondays and hopefully grow their audience that way. By theory that's how it's suppose to work and history has shown that it has worked.