By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite television show averaged 779,000 viewers for TBS, according to Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics.com. The viewership count was down from the 822,000 viewership total from last week’s show.
Powell’s POV: Dynamite finished with a 0.27 rating in 18-49 demo, down from last week’s 0.29 rating in the same demo. Rough numbers coming out of the Revolution show and with this being billed as a season premiere. Tuesday’s NXT finished with 654,000 viewers and a 0.16 rating on USA Network. One year ago, the March 8, 2023 edition of Dynamite on TBS delivered 858,000 viewers and a 0.29 rating in the 18-49 demographic for the AEW Revolution fallout show.
Damn I thought “Big Business” would do better than that!!
Lol
Holy shit, a show with “no misses” completely missed having fans. What a fucking joke.
I covered the Monday Night Wars. Raw was the better show than Nitro for months before it started to move up in the ratings. I’m not suggesting that AEW is better than WWE by any means. My point is that while I am surprised that they took another viewership slide this week, things don’t happen overnight. I gave many of those Raw shows that lost the ratings battle a lot of Hits because they were warranted even if it didn’t lead to an immediate change in the ratings. AEW finally made changes by going with more promo time and even some video packages. That’s to be applauded, though only time will tell whether these changes are permanent let alone whether they will pay off in the ratings. I just know that it felt like a different show until they got to the main event and then they threw two people out there to have a banger with zero build.
Did Raw’s ratings continuously drop during those months? I’ll wager that they didn’t.
But also at that time WCW had already started in a sharp decline. WWE generally is at the top of its game currently
You are missing the point. I’m not comparing AEW to modern day WWE. I’m simply pointing out that it takes time to turn things around. Let’s say a sitcom had ten terrible episodes in a row and viewers lost interest. The eleventh episode could be great and yet the ratings for that episode will probably suck because the first ten were so bad. That doesn’t mean the eleventh episode was poor in quality, it just means that it is paying the price for the previous episodes and the turnaround isn’t going to happen overnight.
Raw’s live attendance and TV ratings weren’t in a nosedive while they were catching up to WCW. It’s a false equivalence.
You’re not stupid. You know I’m not comparing Dynamite to Raw in the Attitude Era in that way. The point was clearly that it takes time to turn the ratings around. On the off chance that you are so blinded by your abnormal hatred of AEW, I’ll flip it. If WWE were to put on a lousy edition of Smackdown tonight, the show would very likely top 2 million viewers. That doesn’t mean it was a good show, it means the product is hot enough that they’d keep most of their audience despite having a bad show. Conversely, Dynamite’s ratings were lousy, but it doesn’t mean that they didn’t do some encouraging things.
But you were watching, you psychopath.
I made it into the second quarter hour and gave up.
Well received PPV, Okada debut (leaked) and Ospreay in the main event and they cant crack 800k. Ouch
It’s almost like the PPV was only liked by the same people that like everything they do, nobody gives a shit about Okada and Ocean Spray except the same people that already watch, and losing Sting clipped away the group of nostalgia fans that were just watching to see his career finish.
At a time when WWE is red hot, Dynamite hasn’t hit 1 million viewers in over a year and is trending downward. But, the dirt sheets and smarks all think it’s great so the coked out dipshit will keep doing the worst job of anyone who has ever had a national TV deal and think it’s great.
It’s hard to believe that the perfect wrestling show with the two greatest wrestlers that ever walked the face of earth, Okada and Will Ostrich, couldn’t ever crack 800000. Wait til next week when Big Business goes bankrupt. Tony will just bring in some more interchangeable luchadours and Japanese senior citizens and everything will be fine or I should say great. Ding!
Didn’t Raw lost 100k as well this week?
Having more than 2x as many viewers while not debuting two of the supposedly best wrestlers in the world and not coming off of a supposedly great PPV isn’t a bad thing.
Q8: 9:45-10 drew 654k and 306k in the demo.
Ospreay vs Fletcher was the least watched segment on the show by 72k.
Q1 was the highest, at 930k, showing once again that the actual four pillars of AEW (and the ONLY draws they have) are Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj.