RAW has made its move to the USA Network (and mun2) from Spike TV…
Smackdown has moved to Fridays…
Velocity and Heat have joined ByteThis! as online-only programs…
WWE Experience has been scrapped and replaced by a RAW-only Saturday morning show…
TNA’s iMPACT! has moved from Pay Per View only to Fox Sports Net to online only to Spike TV…
Spike TV has replaced RAW with Ultimate Fighting programming…
And that doesn’t even take into account Canada’s new Fight Network, the UK’s Wrestling Channel, WWE’s subscription video-on-demand service 24/7, and other specialty and international programming…
Does TNA have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever going head-to-head with WWE on Monday Nights a la the WCW/WWF battles of the late 1990s? What aspects of the history of pro grappling on TV are worth noting? And what’s the overall future hold as the industry Wrestles with Television?
We take a look at a variety of these issues in our newest feature: Wrestling With Television — appearing over the next several days ONLY on Inside Pulse Wrestling (along with a ton of news and analysis of one of the biggest weeks in wrestling history in years as part of our regularly scheduled columns and other items)! Click on the first link, below, and keep coming back each day as new commentary is added into the mix. Also, share your feedback on the issues at hand in our Reader Forums.
Enjoy!
– Matthew Michael
