By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
-Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite television show averaged 877,000 viewers for TBS, according to Showbuzzdaily.com. The viewership count was up from the 776,000 viewership total from last week’s show.
-AEW All Access had 336,000 viewers and a 0.12 rating in the key demo. The previous edition of AEW All Access had 308,000 viewers and a 0.09 rating in the key demo.
Powell’s POV: Dynamite finished ninth in the 18-49 demo in Wednesday’s cable ratings with a 0.32 rating, up from last week’s 0.28 rating in the same demo. The competition was strong with the NBA and NHL playoffs, Vanderpump Rules, and a CNN town hall with Donald Trump. Monday’s WWE Raw finished with a 0.51 rating on USA Network. The May 11, 2022 edition of Dynamite on TBS delivered 840,000 viewers and a 0.33 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
They loaded up with a cage match, another OC title match, the double jeopardy thing, and the trios title match and still can’t get anyone to watch.
The Four Pillows are a bust.
Actually, this was actually great for them! 100,000+ viewers in a tough night? That was awesome. Did some what better than last year.
So what are you talking about?
Against the biggest nba game of the year, fantastic rating
I assume he’s talking about Tony and the announcers repeatedly and adamantly hyping this as a PPV quality show on free TV, yet they still didn’t get back over the 900k mark, much less the 1 million mark. They did bring back the people that tuned out last week which is certainly good, but despite that it still has to be seen as at least mildly disappointing that a “PPV level” show headlined by 2 of their top guys in a cage match stayed sub-900k.
Not really a disappointment. Especially when competing against an NBA playoff game and a controversial event.
If you build it it will come. That ending of Dynamite will guarantee a higher crowd when the playoffs are over.
Arguing over live TV ratings is a relic of 20 years ago. TV viewership is changing such that you really need live+3 to understand the viewership of a show, and you also need to understand the live tv strategy of the network hosting the show. 800K viewers where there would otherwise have been 200K is a great move for Warner and is essential in promoting other Warner properties, which I’m sure you see and hear them do during every episode. AEW is a tentpole, not just for the night but for the week.
“This doesn’t count cause an important game was on”(apparently, there’s an important game on during all but ~6 Dynamites per year), “this doesn’t count, there’s a big political event”, what’s next, “this doesn’t count, the new Barbie animated series just debuted”?
The NBA playoffs hurt AEW, just as they (and Monday Night Football) hurt WWE. The numbers went up this week so I really don’t understand the debate. All things considered, they did well. Suggesting otherwise is just polarized nonsense.