The following are the quarter-hour ratings for Monday's TNA Impact television show.

Q1: 0.87 rating - Christy Hemme explains the rules of the Knockouts match, Hulk Hogan, Jeff Jarrett, Abyss, Team Flair, Jeff Hardy, and Rob Van Dam in-ring segment

Q2: 0.85 rating - Continuation of the opening segment, RVD vs. James Storm

Q3: 0.98 rating - Jeff Hardy saves RVD, Robert Roode attacks Hardy, Hemme interviews the Knockouts, Rob Terry vs. Homicide, Knockouts lockbox challenge

Q4: 0.93 rating - Lockbox challenge continuation, Mr. Anderson vs. Kurt Angle ladder match

Q5: 0.81 rating - Angle vs. Anderson continuation, Jeremy Borash interviews Hulk Hogan, Bubba The Love Sponge and Jay Lethal show up

Q6: 0.88 rating - Hemme interviews Matt Morgan, Motor City Machine Guns vs. Team 3D

Q7: 0.73 rating - The Band promo, Pope interview with Desmond Wolfe interruption, Douglas Williams vs. Generation Me

Q8: 0.70 rating - Shannon Moore attacks Williams, Beautiful People backstage, Team 3D interview, D'Angelo Dinero vs. Desmond Wolfe,

Overrun: 0.97 rating - Knockouts open the lockboxes,

Powell's POV: TNA drew a 0.9 overall rating with an average of 1.2 million viewers. The first hour of the show scored a 0.9 rating, while hour two did a 0.78 (minus the overrun).

The earlier start was beneficial for TNA, particularly when you consider that they didn't do a big marketing blitz to get the word out. Here's hoping the first hour rating this week and back and January 4 are enough to convince TNA and Spike TV that a move to the earlier time slot is the right move. By the way, the 1.0 overrun rating that was mentioned earlier was rounded up from the 0.97.

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