Wednesday’s TNA Impact Wrestling premiere on Destination America drew 263,000 viewers and another 105,000 viewers on the replay, for a total of 368,000 viewers for the night. This number was reported on Thursday, but Impact officials are not happy with it.

Officials and workers backstage were upset backstage at Friday night’s tapings about that number being reported online.

A top TNA executive said that this number is wrong and that it is just a general demographic number.

Destination America will reportedly be issuing a press release on the ratings as soon as Monday.

They in denial

Earlier today alleged viewership information for the first episode of Impact Wrestling on Destination America was posted by PWTorch.com, claiming the premiere show brought in 263,000 viewers for its first run, and 105,000 for the replay and west coast broadcast; a total of 368,000. According to several reports, TNA officicals were upset that this number – which they claimed to be “general demographic” information – was posted online.

TV By the Numbers, the same source that weekly WWE Raw, Smackdown and, in general, most TV ratings information comes from, Impact Wrestling actually did 359,000 viewers in its jump to the new network.

Their official statement was that “Impact Wrestling earned a 0.1 adults 18-49 rating and 359,00 viewers.” The website did not indicate whether or not this number included the replay in the 11 p.m. ET timeslot, but given TNA’s frustration over preliminary reports, we would speculate the final number (including the addition 105,000 reported) came in around 464,o00 for both the live airing and the replay.

TNA needs to get that out of their mindset. They will not seen big numbers. Worrying about this crap isn't a good way to run a business. What TNA needs to worry about is making the product better, making TNA as a whole better.

Don't panic guys. They're gonna add more reality TV style segments so that's bound to increase the ratings.

Whatever the figure is, they were still #1 on the network...which is something