TNA Reportedly Pulled Music Over Licensing Pay Issues

UPDATE: Here are some more on TNA pulling the theme songs for Mike Bennett and DJ Z from last night’s iMPACT!. Two sources claim that the issue was related to “a pay issue” for the proper rights, with the story being that Billy Corgan told POP TV about the potential issue and that TNA had to spend some extra hours on the episode to get it to a point that it could air.

There was said to be some grumbling among the production team about Corgan because of the extra work. As noted previously, Dale Oliver is the creator of the songs. Serg Salinas, Dixie Carter’s husband, oversees TNA’s musical rights.

ORIGINAL: On last might’s edition on TNA iMPACT Wrestling, theme music used for Mike Bennett and DJZ were both pulled from the show; both songs were written by Dale Oliver. TNA did not replace either song with different music, but they did crowd noise to cover the music.
According to Prowrestling.net, there were rumors earlier today that Pop may not air the show due to music licensing issues. This led to speculation that there were issues regarding music written by Billy Corgan, following reports that Corgan filed a lawsuit against TNA.
The site notes that Corgan’s TNA theme song aired as usual, so there do not appear to be any issues with TNA having rights to music that he has written for or supplied to the company. Oliver wrote both themes, and they are newer songs. It appears that there are now licensing issues with Oliver’s 2016 theme songs. While not confirmed, this could be an issue where Oliver is owed money.

There is also a lawsuit filed against the company from Audience of One Productions, who are seeking $223,000 plus interests and post-judgment costs. They filed suit against Impact Ventures LLC, TNA minority owner Aroluxe LLC, Dean Broadhead and Ronald Harris for breach of contract, fraudulent inducement on the behalf of Harris and Broadhead, torturous interference on behalf of Aroluxe and for violating Virginia codes.

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