By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite television show averaged 953,000 viewers for TBS, according to Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics.com. The viewership count was up from the 825,000 viewership total from last week’s show.
Powell’s POV: Dynamite finished with a 0.34 rating in 18-49 demo, up from last week’s 0.29 rating in the same demo. Monday’s WWE Raw finished with a 0.57 rating on USA Network. The July 20, 2022 edition of Dynamite on TBS delivered 910,000 viewers and a 0.32 rating in the 18-49 demographic Fyter Fest night two.
I said 925-950, so I’m chalking that up as a win. They’ll be down around 825 next week.
The bottom line is this. The other blood and guts matches got over a million viewers. None of the quarter hours got a million and actually lost viewers. Meanwhile unlike most tv shows the WWE is up year over year and selling out arenas while here in the states AEW has half empty arenas but that’s ignored because AEW is fun and crowd pleasing
Can it be called crowd pleasing when they “distribute” less than 9000 tickets to a building that holds between 17850 and 20000 depending on the configuration?
That’s more like small gathering pleasing.