By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Tuesday’s NXT television show produced 603,000 viewers for USA Network, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The viewership count was down from the 631,000 viewers who watched last week’s episode. NXT finished 36th in the Tuesday cable ratings with a .15 in the 18-49 demographic, equal to last week’s .15 rating in the same demo.
Powell’s POV: Last week’s show ran opposite the deciding game of the World Series and election night coverage on cable news networks. As such, the decline in overall viewership has to be considered disappointing.
So is it safe to say there aren’t many wrestling fans that watch baseball now?
Between this and Dynamite losing viewers without the World Series up against them, you could argue that baseball was adding viewers to the shows.
It was a good show. Robert Stone was missed.
There aren’t any casual fans left in wrestling. Just hardcore fans who love wrestling no matter what. WWE used to draw the general audience in, but that was with less programming once a week, before Smackdown. When Smackdown came on, it was fine for a little bit, but already it was too much. This was only one promotion and not two. Can’t miss wrestling because it is on every day of the week now. Both AEW and WWE are making too much money to reduce the hours so they will continue to put on more programming. It is a weird world that we live in.
More programming with less quality. Somehow they got paid to produce shit no matter how low the quality is just because they produce it themselves. It is a weird world we live in.