The big news: AEW ratings dip slightly while NXT’s increase This week’s installment of the AEW vs. WWE ratings battle saw most of the shows down after seeing big numbers last week. Those, of course, featured CM Punk’s debuts on Rampage and Dynamite, as well as increased interest in WWE after SummerSlam. Meanwhile, WWE NXT’s…
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Editor’s Note: Paul and GG did a short video podcast as supplemental content to this weekly piece. The big news The debut of AEW Rampage on TNT, featuring all three of the company’s singles titles defended on the show, debuted to a strong number in terms of both viewership and the 18—49 demo. The show…
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The big news AEW Dynamite topped one million viewers for the fourth consecutive week. While that’s a nice, sexy number, it’s not the most important one: The show’s rating in the 18–49 demo climbed for the third consecutive week and hit the second highest level in the show’s history on Wednesday night. They are now…
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The big news With the “Wednesday Night War” behind them in the victory column, AEW Dynamite is getting closer and closer to catching up to the cable wrestling stalwart Monday Night RAW, at least in terms of the key 18-49 demo number. The overall audience still trails RAW significantly, but Dynamite was within 10% in…
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The big news Despite going against Game 1 of the NBA Finals, which averaged over seven million viewers on ABC, AEW Dynamite had it’s fifth largest viewership of all time on Wednesday night. The show averaged 1.025 million viewers and is now averaging over 900,000 on Wednesday nights since WWE NXT moved to Tuesdays. This…
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The big news Monday Night RAW did a record-low number this week after 28 years on the air. Three of the four big wrestling shows were down this week (five if you count Impact Wrestling) but that’s still an alarming number. And it could drop even further with next week’s show being the last taped…
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The big news After being moved around for the last month due to the NBA Playoffs on TNT, AEW Dynamite returned to its Wednesday night time slot last night and did a better rating than they’d been averaging in the time slot prior to all the moves. This is a great sign as generally in…
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The big news WWE NXT fell to numbers more similar to what they were doing while running head to head with AEW Dynamite on Wednesday nights after a month on Tuesdays. Similarly, Dynamite did it’s worst number in 18–49 since getting the night to themselves. WWE RAW was also down very slightly. This week’s numbers AEW…
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The big news AEW Dynamite averaged 1.09 million viewers last night and finished atop the cable charts with a 0.42 rating. Blood and Guts was obviously a huge ratings success for the company and marked the 3rd time in 4 weeks that the show has broken 1 million viewers since NXT moved off of Wednesdays….
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The big news Last night’s AEW Dynamite was way down against the Presidential Address of Joe Biden and continued the trend of all major wrestling programming being down this week from the previous week after being up for some weeks previously. Whether it’s a cooling off period after WrestleMania that’s spilling over into everything else…
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