Dixie Carter doesn't like the PPV Formula

[Kaedon]

TNA President Dixie Carter was a guest on the Live Audio Wrestling Internet radio
show on Sunday night. Host John Pollock discussed TNA's current PPV formula of one event per month, Carter says she is not a fan of the monthly PPV format and she would like to see the formula shaken up.

"I'm not a big fan of monthly PPVs, quite honestly, but you have contracts that keep you held in and bound at times," Carter said. "We're definitely talking about trying to shake things up and do things differently in the future."

Despite the fact that TNA is a privately held company and their actual PPV buyrate figures are never officially released, the data that does get out indicates that TNA has never come close to breaking 100,000 buys for an event and change is needed.

Carter repeated her recent claims that changes are coming to TNA and that she would be addressing many of the elements of the product that have become stagnant or too formula.

"I work very, very closely [with the creative team]. I'm not going to profess to be a wrestling writer. I am good at challenging people. It's not just ratings, but other things as well," Carter said. "We've made a lot of changes internally to present the product more real and focusing on these young guys."

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[gashface]

Wow, well I'm a big fan of this. I think monthly PPVs are uncalled for in todays wrestling market, it makes the product too formulaic, unpredictable and PPV's less special. Lets see 6-8 per year please TNA with them being much better built/and more special!

Go dixie!

 

[Soulpower]

This is something that WWE should also think about doing.

Edit:By the way, if TNA were to go through with this, I'd like to see them do a couple of Clash of the Champions like shows on Spike. They could give us a couple of title matches (Which would actually get some time!) on free tv, which could give them a ratings boost.

 

[Kaedon]

I think she wants to cut them because she can't dick for revenue with them.

 

[JurassicBonez]

Good idea. It gives them better chances of building storyliines. Sure their ppv buy rates will go down (even though they are low now) but they gain more buyrates out of this. People aren't ordering ppv's now, but if they can build better feuds, have better ppv matches, it could actually get their buyrates up. Let it happen Dixie.