Destination America announced today that it has signed a national broadcast deal with professional wrestling league RING OF HONOR, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., bringing one of the most respected wrestling organizations to the only network dedicated to all-American entertainment. Destination America is now the one-two-punch to professional wrestling, adding RING OF HONOR (ROH) to its line-up after launching IMPACT WRESTLING in early 2015. RING OF HONOR has been delivering top wrestling matches for ten years with captivating hard-hitting stars such as Jay & Mark Briscoe, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, The Young Bucks, Maria Kanellis, Adam Cole and Jay Lethal. Destination America will pack on the action beginning Wednesday June 3 with the series premiere of RING OF HONOR at 8/7c leading into brand new premieres of IMPACT WRESTLING at 9/8c
http://www.lordsofpain.net/news/tna/Backstage_News_on_Ring_of_Honor_and_Destination_America_No_First-Run_Episodes_to_Air.html
Regarding Ring of Honor coming to Destination America next month, the episodes will be the ones owned and distributed by Sinclair Broadcasting. They will debut over the weekends for Sinclair affiliates and then air Wednesdays on Destination America.
ROH and Destination America have reportedly been building a relationship over the past few months and it's said to be independent of what's going on with Destination America and TNA. Destination America reportedly wants pro wrestling on their network and they want to be the "destination" for the business.
This is not confirmed yet but word is that ROH will air weekly on Destination America at least through the end of this year, possibly longer.
Source: PWinsider
What bizarre news. The assumption online is that DA is going to try and lure TNA's audience to ROH and then when they can TNA those people might stick with ROH. But with all we've heard about Destination America and how they haven't been thrilled with wrestling, to take on another wrestling program is weird. ROH will be a lot cheaper I'm sure though.
