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 789,000 viewers on TNT, which is a series low, and down 21% from the week prior. The show ranked No. 6 on the Cable Top 150 18-49 demographic list.
NXT continues to struggle on the USA Network, posting a series low 580,000 viewers. That’s down 17% from the week prior and ranked the show as No. 32 on the Cable Top 150 18-49 demographic list.
Of note, the final 2019 World Series game was airing on FOX and it drew 23 million viewers overall.
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
Oct. 30, 2019 – 580,000 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
Oct. 30, 2019 – 789,000 viewers
All data courtesy of Mitch Metcalf.
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