{"id":14113,"date":"2014-10-09T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/?p=14113"},"modified":"2014-10-09T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:44:19","slug":"why-spike-tv-is-dropping-tna-another-issue-with-tv-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/news\/why-spike-tv-is-dropping-tna-another-issue-with-tv-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Spike TV Is Dropping TNA, Another Issue With TV Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Regarding TNA&#8217;s ongoing TV negotiations, networks are leery on the TNA product not just because it&#8217;s pro wrestling but because it has the negative stigma of being a product that Spike TV dropped, even when the ratings weren&#8217;t that bad.<\/p>\n<p>It was said that networks are wondering what is the catch and why would Spike drop a program that was drawing between 1 million and 1.4 million viewers each week. The Wrestling Observer noted that word from the TV industry is that Spike is dropping TNA because they don&#8217;t have the confidence in TNA&#8217;s leadership to grow the company.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to that, numbers had been declining and the whole Vince Russo debacle was once again brought up this week. Spike denies the Russo issue publicly but it&#8217;s no secret that Russo was a big part in Spike finalizing their decision. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report On Why Spike TV Is Dropping TNA, Another Issue With Ongoing TV Negotiations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-14113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-tna"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14114,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions\/14114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}