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Cable network AMC has long been the home of ambitious scripted dramas from “Mad Men” to the many iterations of “The Walking Dead” franchise.

But parent company AMC Networks announced Tuesday it will carry a weekly TNA Wrestling program starting in January. “Thursday Night iMPACT!” will air live from from 9 to 11 p.m. Eastern starting Jan. 15.

The telecast was previously carried on cable network AXS. The Nashville-based TNA, founded in 2002, is among the largest competitors to TKO Group Holdings’s WWE, the market leader in the professional wrestling business.

The multi-year media rights deal with a sports entertainment entity is the first of its kind for the New York based AMC, o

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