TNA TV DEAL UPDATES

TNA President Dixie Carter just wrote on Twitter that the company has come to terms with Challenge TV in Great Britain on a new multi-year deal to "keep all of our programming free in the UK and Ireland."

The next big deal TNA will have to get locked in will be with Spike in the United States. The company's current deal will be expiring in October 2014, so negotiations to lock a new deal in should be starting sometime in the first quarter of the year.

As I noted in my PWInsider Elite audio a few days ago, there are some in the company worried about the potential of WWE moving to Spike and other Viacom-run networks if they don't lock in a new deal with Comcast, so the sooner TNA locks a new contract in, the better.

As I also noted in my audio, the other concern regarding Spike may be that when the last deal was signed, the goal between the two parties was to grow the weekly audience to two million viewers a week. Obviously, that did not happen as TNA's viewership is down in comparison to when they locked in their last deal.

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