By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite television show averaged 899,000 viewers for TBS, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The viewership count was down slightly from the 901,000 viewership total from last week’s show.
Powell’s POV: Dynamite finished fifth in the 18-49 demo in Wednesday’s cable ratings with a 0.30 rating, down a tick from last week’s 0.31 rating in the same demo. Monday’s WWE Raw finished with a 0.55 rating on USA Network. The February 9, 2022 edition of Dynamite on TBS delivered 1.032 million viewers and a 0.41 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
Aew broke from their ethos and put MJF in half the segments. They also labeled this “Championship Fight Night” and hit 900k or go above .30 on the demo. They’re in trouble, Powell-a-mino. I skipped more than usual. A match can have good action but when there’s not a quality story or even 1% of doubt on who wins, I don’t watch.
They don’t have one truly compelling storyline. Every major program has a very predictable outcome. How many more “run the gauntlet” type stories can you put on your show before more and more people tune out? And it still begs the question of why they don’t know how to utilize the roster they have, and why so many wrestlers just vanish for weeks or months without any explanation, and when(if)they do finally show back up, they are ice cold.