By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Friday’s AEW Dynamite television show produced 526,000 viewers for TNT. The viewership count was down from the 821,000 viewership mark for last week’s episode.
Powell’s POV: Dynamite finished with a .20 in the 18-49 demographic. Last week’s Dynamite delivered a .28 rating in the 18-49 demographic. Obviously, the move to the Friday night of Memorial Day weekend didn’t help the cause. Dynamite will be bumped from its usual Wednesday slot by the NBA Playoffs for at least the next two weeks.
AEW: 526,000
18-49: 0.20— Bryan Alvarez (@bryanalvarez) June 1, 2021
So when they get the new show Rampage … what day is Dynamite and what day is Rampage?
I think Dynamite is still on wednesday and Rampage fridays airing after WWE’s smackdown.
Once the change happens with NHL games on TNT, Dynamite will go to TBS on Wednesday in the same timeslot they have now and Rampage will be a 1 hour show on TNT airing Friday nights right after Smackdown.
Considering how much of a blow the NHL could have been to AEW, this was a really good deal that they worked out.