Eric Bischoff’s reality show company is making news. Check out the latest in the Arizona Republic. Thanks to Jeff Morgan for sending that in.
Also, Slam Wrestling has this interview with Jerry Jarrett and Dixie Carter of TNA. An interesting quote from Carter, which puts some things into perspective:
“This is a process, and it’s going to be about continuing to grow this company at a good rate. That includes success stories from all over the world, not just the U.S. In India, we have equaled WWE’s ratings after four months, while they’ve been there for six years. In Korea, it took us nine months to beat the primetime ratings of (the company) who had been there for seven or eight years. We are starting to build these little success stories,” she said. “It won’t happen every night; we don’t have unreasonable expectations that it will. But we know what we have here, and we’re pretty confident that we’re going to succeed.”
And from Jarrett, who has been reportedly on the outs with TNA since appearing at WWE headquarters and on WWE.com:
“(We want to have a piece of) all seven independent revenue streams,” he says with a wisdom about the industry that only a few veterans can boast. “Magazines, live events, syndication, broadcast television, pay-per-view, video marketing, merchandise, all of it. The Spike deal is the first step; now we have a chance to generate sufficient numbers for us to become self-supportive.”
