AEW Dynamite premiere averaged 1.409 million viewers on TNT last night and finished second for the night on cable in the all-important 18-49 demo with a 0.68 rating.
NXT Did a the 0.32 rating that NXT on USA Network pulled in the same demo while averaging only 891,000 viewers, which is an 11 percent drop from the previous week.
Following the beginning of the “Wednesday Night War,” WWE issued a statement today congratulating AEW on the premiere of Dynamite.
The statement said: “Congratulations to AEW on a successful premiere. The real winners of last night’s head-to-head telecasts of NXT on USA Network and AEW on TNT are the fans, who can expect Wednesday nights to be a competitive and wild ride as this is a marathon, not a one-night sprint.”
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According to overnight ratings from Nielsen, @AEWrestling did a 0.7 and @WWENXT did a 0.5. Will be interesting to see how that translates to viewership.— Ryan Glasspiegel (@sportsrapport) October 3, 2019
Some early market ratings are available at this point for the debut of AEW Dynamite last night on TNT.
These are the household ratings for the show in different markets:
Live show —
Chicago: 1.0
Dallas: 0.9
Washington, DC: 0.7
Houston: 0.9
Atlanta: 1.0
Detroit: 1.4
Minneapolis: 0.8
Charlotte: 2.0
Replay show —
Chicago: 0.6
Dallas: 0.1
Washington, DC: 0.2
Houston: 0.4
Atlanta: 0.2
Detroit: 0.8
Minneapolis: 0.2
Charlotte: 0.8
For comparisons in these markets, these were the percentage differences in viewing from Tuesday’s show that did 631,000 viewers.
Chicago up 233 percent
Dallas up 200 percent
Washington, DC up 75 percent
Houston up 125 percent
Atlanta up 11 percent
Detroit up 133 percent
Minneapolis up 300 percent
Charlotte up 82 percent