The announcement on Tuesday of TNA Impact’s move to AMC in January 2026 arrives as its viewership on AXS TV is unknown to the public. In terms of household coverage, the move to AMC will roughly double Impact’s traditional TV reach. Last we knew, in late 2023, Impact was measuring under 100,000 viewers on AXS TV.
AXS TV is owned by Anthem, the same parent company of TNA itself, and reaches about half of cable households. AMC reaches probably somewhat under 60 million U.S. homes. The publicly-traded company disclosed it had 60 million households a year ago, so that number is likely somewhat lower now, given the continual decline of cable. AMC is expected to report an update in a few months. To compare, ESPN, one of the most widely-carried cable networks, more recently reported it covers 61 million households. So AMC appears to be just under as widely-distributed as it gets for cable in the U.S.
The new agreement with AMC is for multiple years. A more specific term and financial details weren’t announced.
The show will also be on AMC’s streaming app, AMC+, which the company reports has 10.4 million subscribers. AMC doesn’t break down how many of those subscribers overlap with households that also get the traditional TV network.
Impact’s viewership peaked in the middle of the years the program was on Spike TV, spanning from 2005 to 2014. From 2009 to 2011, the show averaged between 1.4 million and 1.6 million viewers per episode.
Impact’s movement across networks shows how much a program’s network home matters.
Viewership fell off strongly when Spike (now known as the Paramount Network) ended its relationship with TNA at the end of 2014. The move to Destination America brought the show’s average live+same-day audience to in the 300,000 range, as the number consistently declined throughout the one-year run on the Discovery-owned network.
After 2015, the show moved to Pop, another network owned by Paramount. Impact continued to be watched by about 300,000 viewers on a weekly basis through most of the run, lasting from 2016 to 2018. Towards the end, the show fell to under 200,000.
Then Impact moved into the great unknown, landing on outdoor recreation-themed network, the Pursuit Channel. Pursuit doesn’t appear to have been a Nielsen subscriber, or at any rate, we’ve never come across anyone who knew what kind of audience the show measured at on that platform, where it aired throughout 2019 while simulcasting on Twitch.
Anthem then purchased the former HDNet, AXS TV, and placed Impact on the network, where it’s aired since the very end of 2019. Viewership there peaked at just over 200,000 early in the run. As cable homes continued to fall in the 2020s, viewership fell below 100,000 in 2023.
Impact on AMC will remain on Thursday nights, but will air at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, one hour later than its current start time. The premiere will be on January 15, 2026, broadcasting live from just outside Dallas, in Garland, Texas, at the Curtis Culwell Center.