By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite television show produced 828,000 viewers for Wednesday’s episode on TNT, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The viewership count was down from the 871,000 viewers who watched the previous episode.
Powell’s POV: Last week’s show was the taped Jericho Cruise edition, and AEW delivered 940,000 for their previous live show two weeks ago. NXT delivered 712,000 viewers for USA Network last night. AEW finished third in the 18-49 demographic, while NXT finished 37th in the same category.
AEW has been declining since the first week of the new year.
967K to 828K for AEW in 5 week’s of shows. Over 100K lost.
No idea why the 1/1 show saw the bump it did, but All Petite is nosediving again.
That’s such a weak-sauce criticism of AEW. Other than Marko Stunt – who I’ve come to appreciate in limited doses – I really don’t notice or care about the size of AEW competitors. In fact, I look forward to seeing more from their new faces like Jungle Boy and Sammy Guevara – I couldn’t care less that they’re on the small side for wrestlers. Their ring work is great and their characterization has been very good too.
Root for a “nosedive” all you want but a multi-year renewal by TNT says otherwise. AEW needs some work – we all know the women’s division has been rough and I personally dislike most of the company’s tag teams, but I find the show a fast-moving, entertaining two hours most weeks.
Haven’t noticed the size of AEW competitors? Their womans’ champion looks like a 95 lbs, 13 year old…..when she actually appears on T.V, that is. It’s not like Jungle Boy is a monster either, and I’m suppose to buy in that he can compete with Jericho?
He says it because Jim Cornette says it.