Impact Wrestling drew 315,000 viewers on Thursday night on Pop TV, which is down from the 317,000 viewers the episode drew last week. Impact ranked #115 in the top 150 shows on cable for the night. The show was live and featured the debut of Damien Sandow. Impact had strong competition against the Olympics, which did an average of 30 million viewers.
Here are the viewership numbers for the first run episodes of Impact Wrestling in 2016:
1/5/2016: 255,000
1/12/2016: 288,000
1/19/2016: 321,000
1/26/2016: 339,000
2/2/2016: 295,000
2/9/2016: 276,000
2/16/2016: 273,000
2/23/2016: 210,000
3/1/2016: 258,000
3/8/2016: 222,000
3/15/2016: 307,000
3/22/2016: 331,000
3/29/2016: 312,000
4/5/2016: 272,000
4/12/2016: 286,000
4/19/2016: 312,000
4/26/2016: 322,000
5/3/2016: 303,000
5/10/2016: 280,000
5/17/2016: 311,000
5/24/2016: 359,000
6/7/2016: 326,000
6/14/2016: 210,000
6/21/2016: 304,000
6/28/2016: 322,000
7/5/2016: 410,000
7/12/2016: 358,000 – last episode on Tuesday nights
7/21/2016: 362,000 – first episode on Thursday nights
7/28/2016: 350,000
8/4/2016: 317,000
8/11/2016: 315,000