TORONTO – Impact Wrestling will launch a live stream of its weekly two-hour IMPACT! flagship show on social video service Twitch starting Friday.
IMPACT! showcases top professional wrestling stars and is televised globally in 120 countries. The premiere episode on its Twitch channel will debut January 11 at 10:00 PM ET, at the same time as its premiere on Pursuit Channel in the U.S., and will include a roundup from ‘Homecoming’ in Nashville, Impact Wrestling’s first major pay-per-view event of the year.
“Impact Wrestling’s new broadcast arrangement on Pursuit Channel has given us the flexibility to develop distribution channels to bring our show to the cord cutters in our fan base,” said Impact Wrestling president Ed Nordholm, in the news release. “We saw double digit growth in our digital audience in 2018, consistently setting and then breaking new records for engagement across our various digital and social media assets. Since initially partnering with Twitch last year with our own channel, we have been committed to expanding our presence and creating a dedicated community on the platform and fans have responded, leading to our decision to bring our flagship show to Twitch.”
