# @wrestlingnewsco on Instagram

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Before its Spike TV deal, TNA Impact aired at 3 p.m. on Friday afternoons on Fox Sports Net.

The show debuted June 4, 2004, giving TNA its first national television outlet after two years of operating on weekly pay-per-views. The slot was 3 p.m. ET in most markets, 4 p.m. in others, and was subject to being moved by regional FSN affiliates around their other programming.

TNA paid for the airtime, buying the slot from FSN at a reported $30,000 per week.

The FSN presentation included the network’s score ticker and an on-screen clock. The show ran one hour, used the six-sided ring, featured the X Division, and carried a roster that included AJ Styles, Monty Brown and, by mid-2005, Samoa Joe, taped at the Impact Zone at Universal Studios in Orlando.

The deal lasted 51 episodes and expired in May 2005 without renewal. TNA then distributed new episodes through its own website, first as BitTorrent downloads, with instructions on the site explaining how to install a torrent client. After the downloads overwhelmed TNA’s servers in the early weeks, the show moved to streaming through RealPlayer. To reduce costs, TNA taped four hours of Impact in a single day and released the episodes across the following month. Urban America Television also carried the show during this period.

Impact debuted on Spike TV on October 1, 2005, in a Saturday 11 p.m. slot, after WWE Raw left the network for USA.

#TNA #ImpactWrestling #WrestlingHistory #FoxSportsNet #2000sWrestling

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