The Wednesday night audience watching professional wrestling programming on cable television continues to shrink. The numbers are in for this week’s episodes of AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT and they aren’t good.
AEW Dynamite did 963,000 viewers on TNT, which is a series low, and down 51,000 viewers from the week prior. The show ranked No. 4 on the Cable Top 150 18-49 demographic list.
NXT continues to struggle on the USA Network, posting a series low 698,000 viewers. That’s down 14,000 viewers from the week prior and ranked the show as No. 21 on the Cable Top 150 18-49 demographic list.
Of note, Game 2 of the 2019 World Series was airing on FOX and it drew 11.381 million viewers from 8-9 PM and 12.125 million viewers from 9-10 PM. That should give at least some hope the audience was tuned in to the live MLB game, instead of simply ignoring the professional wrestling programming.
WWE NXT Viewership Tracker:
Sept. 18, 2019 – 1.179 million viewers (One hour broadcast)
Sept. 25, 2019 – 1.006 million viewers (One hour broadcast)
Oct. 2, 2019 – 891,000 viewers (Series premiere)
Oct. 9, 2019 – 790,000 viewers
Oct. 16, 2019 – 712,000 viewers
Oct. 23, 2019 – 698,000 viewers
AEW Dynamite Viewership Tracker:
Oct. 2, 2019 – 1.409 million viewers (Series premiere)
Oct. 9, 2019 – 1.018 million viewers on TNT (+122K on truTV = 1.140 million viewers)
Oct. 16, 2019 – 1.014 million viewers
Oct. 23, 2019 – 963,000 viewers
All data courtesy of Mitch Metcalf.
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