TNA reuniting with Spike TV for the UK market and rumored to be leaving POP TV in the near future

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Signed a deal with Spike TV UK to show Impact for the UK market starting this Spring.

Originally Posted by Observer Impact Wrestling announced a new television deal in the United Kingdom today with Spike U.K., a two-year-old station in the market that also airs Bellator. Spike U.K. airs a lot of Spike TV programming as well as some shows from parent Ch. 5 in the U.K. The station broadcasts in the U.K. and Ireland. Only a handful of shows in the history of the station have done 200,000 viewers. The deal goes into effect in the spring, and will air Impact every week, as well as monthly live and taped PPVs. TNA Xplosion will air on the smaller My5. Impact will air on Friday nights, the night after the show debuts in the U.S. and Canada. Impact had been out of the U.K. since being canceled by Challenge TV. Its ratings had declined greatly on the station prior to being dropped. Impact had often had more viewers than Raw or SmackDown in the U.K. in the past, but that's misleading since Challenge was available in far more homes than Sky.

Also seems to have recently signed Alberto Del Rio/Patron as part of the new batch of wrestlers showing up at the on-going tapings.

Originally Posted by Observer The new regime of Impact Wrestling debuts at tonight's tapings with a ton of new faces expected as well as old faces being gone. Besides the names already written about, Alberto El Patron, Garza Jr., Rachael Ellering, Kongo Kong, and Laredo Kid are coming in along with the likes of Konnan, Matt Morgan, Bruce Prichard, and perhaps Karen Jarrett. Brooke Adams will not be appearing for any of the tapings. Cody appears only tonight. It also appears Jeremy Borash will be the new lead announcer for TNA.