By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
AEW Dynamite television show delivered 743,000 viewers for Wednesday’s episode on TNT, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The viewership count was down from the 934,000 viewers who watched the previous week’s episode.
Powell’s POV: Dynamite finished fourth in the 18-49 demographic with a .32 in Wednesday’s cable ratings. AEW won the night over NXT, which delivered 691,000 viewers and finished 25th with a .18 in the 18-49 demo for USA Network.
This is a disappointing number considering aew was coming off one its biggest pay per views. They could have at least took in 800k. I guess without any big celebrity it’s back to normal.
They have their audience and, with the exception of the occasional poorly booked celebrity appearance, they clearly don’t care about brining in casuals.
It doesn’t help that their “HOF caliber” signing was the big TNA signing in 2005, or that they’re taking every WWE castoff they can get while still constantly taking shots at WWE on their TV and PPV shows.
They’ve found the audience that likes Omega, that likes watching the Bucks do the same overly choreographed gymnastics routine in every match, and likes every variety of indy garbage match or spotfest out there. They could be significantly better with a good booker who would put together logical storylines, but Tony Khan isn’t going to give up running his pet project so this is what they’ll be for the foreseeable future.
They’ll almost certainly get a bump once NXT moves to Tuesdays, but they’re not likely to grow too much beyond the current 750-850k that already likes their product.