By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite television show produced 1.020 million viewers for TNT, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The viewership count was up from the 948,000 viewership total from last week’s show.
Powell’s POV: Dynamite finished second in the 18-49 demographic in Wednesday’s cable ratings with a .37 rating, up from last week’s 0.31 in the same demo. Monday’s WWE Raw finished with a 0.38 rating in the key demo. AEW benefitted from not having NBA games as competition this week, but they did go against a college football bowl game that topped the demos. Overall, these are really good numbers for AEW.
What were the ratings of the last set of shows they hyped like PPVs again? That’s a way better comparison than last week. I am going to admit that I thought that trick played itself out and they wouldn’t get over a million again, so congrats to them for that. Let’s see if they can keep it. Got to sting that they still couldn’t take Tony’s demo from Raw though. When you’re only competing for one segment against the worst of children’s television and you’re still losing, you should really reevaluate something.
I think the better numbers are the result of AEW for once catching a break with scheduling.
Since hockey went on covid, hiatus they can show Dynamite in prime time again on the West Coast. How else does this show beat Winter Is Coming?
*covid hiatus, you get it