Wednesday’s Dynamite episode #2 on TNT drew 1.018 million viewers, down from the 1.409 million it drew last week. WWE NXT this week drew 790,000 viewers on the USA Network, down from 845,000 last week, according to Showbuzz Daily.
Dynamite also aired on truTV due to MLB coverage and scored 122,000 viewers, if you factor this in the 8 pm episode of Dynamite drew 1.140 million viewers this week.
In terms of demos, AEW drew a 0.46 rating in the 18-49 demographic, doubling NXT’s 0.22.
Details from the Observer:
AEW did 1,018,000 viewers on TNT and another 122,000 on Tru, for 1,140,000 viewers. The TNT replay at 10 p.m. drew another 360,000 viewers, down 14.9 percent from 423,000 the week before.
NXT fell 11.3 percent from last week to 790,000 viewers.
As far as the demos, and this is just for TNT live, the show did a 0.23 in 12-17 (down 36.1 percent), 0.33 in 18-34 (down 41.1 percent), 0.59 in 35-49 (down 26.3 percent) and 0.30 in 50+ (down 11.8 percent).
The decline was greater with women than men, and this was a very heavy male skew with 71.7 percent of the 18-49 viewers being male and 67.5 percent males in 12-17.
But in the ad demo, AEW fell from a 0.68 to 0.46 (or 0.51 including Tru–32.4 percent for the station and 25.0 percent overall ), compared to NXT at 0.22 (a 31.3 percent drop from the big show the prior week). AEW went from No. 2 on cable for the night to No. 8. Still, in its time slot, it was in third place in the key demo, behind only baseball on TBS and Basketball Wives and Black Ink Crew 8 on VH-1. It beat an NBA preseason game on ESPN that did 1,000,000 and a 0.43 in the demo. NXT on USA in the key demo fell behind TBS, VH-1, TNT, MSNBC, Fox News and The History Channel.
Because of the bigger decline in younger viewers, the median age for an AEW viewer grew to 42, still the youngest of any wrestling show. Worse, NXT was 55, six years higher than the week before.
AEW on TNT opened with 1,138,000 viewers and ended with 1,036,000. Overall, the end of the Young Bucks vs. Private Party and the Jericho interview, a segment that was the peak in a number of major markets, actually lost 44,000 viewers overall. Darby Allin vs. Jimmy Havoc lost 196,000 viewers. The women’s tag match gained 58,000 viewers. Jon Moxley vs. Shawn Spears gained 27,000 viewers. And the main event and post-match angle gained 53,000 viewers.
With viewers over 50, there wasn’t much variation as it was steady from start-to-finish as opposed to last week with a big decline with older viewers. In 25-54, aside from a big decline for the Allin match and major growth for the women’s tag, things were pretty steady. In Males 18-34, it dipped badly for Allin vs. Havoc and steadily grew from there the rest of the show. Women 18-49 dropped for Allin vs. Havoc and didn’t really pick up until the latter stages of the main event. Women 18-34 bottomed out during the women’s tag, and grew greatly for the main event.
For NXT, the show did a 0.10 in 12-17 (down 33.3 percent), 0.15 in 18-34 (down 34.8 percent), 0.29 in 35-49 (down 29.3 percent) and 0.27 in 50+ (down 25.0 percent).
NXT opened with 836,000 viewers and the last quarter did 728,000 but after AEW ended, they did grow to 792,000, so they only got 64,000 viewers after AEW ended. Rhea Ripley vs. Aliyah lost 45,000 viewers. Tyler Breeze & Fandango vs. The Forgotten Sons gained 17,000 viewers. Cameron Grimes vs. Boa and Killian Dain post-match lost 29,000 viewers. Roderick Strong vs. Isaiah Scott and the post-match stuff the Undisputed Era and Velveteen Dream gained 47,000 viewers. Bianca Belair vs. Dakota Kai lost 25,000 viewers. Walter vs. Kushida lost 73,000 at the same time AEW gained 53,000, and then Walter vs. Kushida picked up 64,000 for its finish once AEW was off the air.