By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite television show produced 921,000 viewers for TBS, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The viewership count was down from the 930,000 viewership total from last week.
Powell’s POV: Dynamite finished fourth in the 18-49 demo in Wednesday’s cable ratings with a 0.33 rating, down from last week’s 0.37 in the same demo. Monday’s WWE Raw finished with a 0.44 rating on USA Network. Two NBA Playoff games on TNT topped the cable ratings, and an NBA pre-game show finished third.
I’m starting to think that botcherific indie matches, 5 midgets doing flips and posing for no reason, overdone gimmick matches, and just general shithouse booking might be a bad thing for growing a company.
They’re down 20% year over year for the last 3 shows (the first 3 last year that were unopposed by NXT) and dropping weekly. But, Trustfund von Cocaine will just keep on trotting out senseless booking and “huge announcements” until daddy takes his latest money losing toy away.
Dynamite averages by month since the move to TBS.
Jan – 1,027,750
Feb – 990,500
Mar – 985,000
Apr – 954,000
1 week over 1 million since February. Downward trend all year. That’s not a good sign and it’s not because of the NBA playoffs.
We’re over a year since NXT left Wednesdays? What’s Meltzer doing now that the year for year comparisons are realistic? Going to be great when we get to the shows where Tony’s “big announcements” could still pop a rating.
Oof.
Q6 was 895,000 and Q7 was 784,000. 111k turned the show off with the 5 scrawny midgets doing mindless flips and dives and then posing like middle school boys who have never lifted a weight.
Vanilla midgets don’t draw? Who knew Nash was right?