By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite television show averaged 609,000 viewers for TBS, according to Robert Seidman of Substack.com/@sportstvratings. The viewership count was down from the 800,000 viewership total from last week’s show.
Powell’s POV: Dynamite finished with a 0.26 rating in 18-49 demo, down from last week’s 0.28 rating in the same demo. NXT won the battle decisively with 921,000 viewers and a 0.30 rating in the key demo. The October 12, 2022 edition of Dynamite on TBS delivered 983,000 viewers and a 0.32 rating in the 18-49 demographic. It’s worth noting that when the two shows ran head-to-head on October 18, 2022, AEW Dynamite delivered 752,000 viewers and a 0.26 rating, while NXT produced 676,000 viewers and a 0.18 rating.
Gee remember when aew won a year ago? No one cares man, they lost last night
AEW is simply given the benefit of the doubt in every single possible situation by wrestling “journalists.”
I listed the numbers from last year’s head-to-head battle for comparison sake. Shame on me? It’s interesting to see where those numbers were and how the total audience for the two combined has grown. If anything, I think the changes in those numbers make AEW look bad, so I have no idea why you would be bothered by this.
Tony got spanked.
Other than LA Knight, there is no reason to watch WWE right now. AEW is far superior. So why do the numbers say otherwise? I guess frontrunner marks just have to be associated with the “worldwide leader” no matter how bad it is.
Watching a turtle taking a shit for 2 hours would be better than watching AEW right now (except for Toni Storm who is phenomenal with this new gimmick).