Impact Ratings

TNA Impact on Wednesday, October 1 scored a 0.88 rating, up from a 0.81 rating last week and even with a 0.88 rating two weeks ago.

Impact has topped out at 0.88 rating on Wednesday nights, scoring a 0.88 rating three times since moving nights.

Impact drew 1.1 million viewers, returning to the same audience level as two weeks ago when the show also drew 1.1 million viewers.

- The concern is the quarter-hour ratings trend. Impact opened with a show-high 1.03 rating in Q1 following the "Cops" lead-in on Spike TV and the show gradually declined until bottoming out with a 0.75 rating in Q8.

Impact Ratings Break Down

Q1: Impact opened with a show-high 1.03 rating for Austin Aries and Samoa Joe setting up an X Division Title match, plus half of a commercial.

Q2: Impact fell to a 0.91 rating for the second-half of the title match and one-and-a-half commercials.

Q3: Impact inched up to a 0.94 rating for a segment that benefited from only half of a commercial following Ethan Carter III and Rockstar Spud hashing out their issues, then ECIII vs. Eric Young.

Q4: Impact fell to a 0.83 rating for one-and-a-half commercials wrapped around the false-start Gail Kim vs. Havok Knockouts Title match.

Q5: Impact rebounded to a 0.92 rating at the top of the second hour for the teams in the Tag Title Series setting up next week's finale, plus one commercial.

Q6: Impact fell to a 0.83 rating for Manik vs. Shark Boy, one commercial, and set up for the next match.

Q7: Impact fell to a 0.79 rating for Mr. Anderson vs. MVP, one commercial, and the first-half of Bobby Roode calling out Bobby Lashley.

Q8: Impact fell to a show-low 0.75 rating for the second-half of the Roode-Lashley discussion, one commercial, and a restart on the Gail vs. Havok title match.