With the departure of Bruce Prichard from TNA Wrestling and the end of the first half of 2013, forum member Christian Parazulli decided to compile numbers and facts on the current state of TNA ratings. Below is a chart and facts on the first six months worth of ratings for TNA Impact Wrestling. For the sake of clear comparisons, the first six months data for both 2011 and 2012 have been included.

Interesting facts:
- Impact Wrestling averaged a 1.199 rating for the first 6 months of 2011.

- Impact Wrestling averaged a 1.047 rating for the first 6 months of 2012.

- Impact Wrestling averaged a 1.011 rating for the first 6 months of 2013.

- The highest rating TNA scored in the first 6 months of 2011 is a 1.36. The lowest being a 1.01.

- The highest rating TNA scored in the first 6 months of 2012 is a 1.19. The lowest being a 0.85.

- The highest rating TNA scored in the first 6 months of 2013 is a 1.17. The lowest being a 0.77.

- Vince Russo held the head of creative position for the first 8 weeks of 2012 but was demoted in late 2011 as Bruce Prichard took over the head of creative role.

- Bruce Prichard is the first ever non-shareholder employee to hold both the talent and creative director roles in TNA at the same time.

- Not counting Dixie Carter, Jerry and Jeff Jarrett were the only two shareholders to previously hold control of both the talent and creative end of the company at the same time.

- Bruce Prichard held the TNA creative position for only 21 months. In those 21 months, TNA had the lowest ratings average in nearly 7 years.

- The last 6 months of 2012 contained some of the lowest ratings in the last 6 years of Impact Wrestling.

- The first 6 months of TNA programming in 2013 already has a lower than average rating for all of 2012.

- At the current rate, Impact Wrestling is expected to have a year to year average rating of less than a 1.0.

Credit: TNAInsider