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TNA Announces Major Partnership with IGN Entertainment
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TNA News
on Jul 3, 2008 - 11:32:07 AM
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TNA Wrestling issued the following press release this morning:
New Web-Based Programming for IGN Audience to Focus on Storyline Updates and IGN Audience Interaction with TNA Talent
NASHVILLE, Tenn. , July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling announced today the debut of "TNA on IGN," a new web-based video program created exclusively for Imagine Games Network, IGN.com .
"TNA on IGN" is hosted by TNA Wrestling personality Jeremy Borash and will feature fast-paced recaps of all the action from TNA's flagship television program "TNA iMPACT!" on Spike TV (Thursdays, 9 p.m. ET /PT), worldwide pay-per-view events and exclusive behind-the-scenes access to TNA Superstars.
The debut episode of "TNA on IGN" features an exclusive interview with current TNA World Heavyweight Champion "The Samoan Submission Machine" Samoa Joe.
"TNA is excited to launch this new show with IGN, whose incredible audience of nearly 30 million people features both diehard TNA Wrestling fans and fans who might not have had the chance to discover TNA until now," said TNA Wrestling Chief Marketing Officer Steve Allison .
"We plan to bring the IGN audience together with TNA Superstars with exclusive interviews, viewer interaction, video game reviews from TNA Superstars and a behind-the-scenes look at 'iMPACT' that will give IGN viewers access that no sports entertainment company has ever given their fans," Allison said.
In addition to "TNA on IGN," TNA continues to lead innovation in new media for sports entertainment with exclusive web-based programming at http://www.tnawrestling.com . "TNA Today," a daily TNA news program featuring exclusive interviews, analysis and in-ring action launched in 2007, followed by "TNA Spin Cycle," a groundbreaking roundtable talk show featuring TNA Superstars as they've never been seen before. Both shows are available at http://www.tnawrestling.com and distributed across the web via YouTube.
Cross the line to TNA Wrestling, the most innovative experience in professional wrestling today. Join Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle , "The Icon" Sting, Samoa Joe, A.J. Styles and the no-limits X-Division inside the six-sided ring of "TNA iMPACT!" every Thursday from 9:00 -- 11:00 PM, ET /PT only on Spike TV.
TNA Entertainment, LLC is a privately held company headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. Spike TV is available in over 96 million homes and is a division of Viacom International Inc.
Cross The Line at http://www.tnawrestling.com.
IGN Entertainment, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, Inc., is a leading Internet media and services provider focused on the videogame and entertainment enthusiast markets. Collectively, IGN's properties reached more than 30 million unique users worldwide in the month of November 2007 , according to Internet audience measurement firm comScore Media Metrix. IGN's network of videogame-related properties (IGN.com, GameSpy, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, Direct2Drive and others), is the Web's number one videogame information destination and attracts one of the largest concentrated audiences of young males on the Internet.
IGN also owns and operates the popular movie-related website, Rotten Tomatoes and one of the leading male lifestyle Websites, AskMen.com. In addition, IGN provides technology for online game play in videogames. IGN is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area , with offices throughout the U.S. and in Montreal .
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