Ratings Breakdown For This Week’s AEW Dynamite

As previously reported, this past Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite had the lowest viewership in nearly a year against the NBA Playoffs. It did hold steady in the key 18-49 demographic rating, although it still dropped there as well. The show brought in 833,000 viewers and a 0.32 in 18-49. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has more details on the numbers including a look at each individual quarter hour.

It wasn’t all bad news for Dynamite, as it benefitted from RAW also going against the NBA. It managed to beat RAW and Smackdown in overall 18-34 this week (169,000 for Dynamite compared to RAW’s 158,000 and Smackdown’s 153,000), and men 18-34 (97,000 for Dynamite compared to RAW’s 87,000 and Smackdown’s 79,000). It also beat RAW with women 18-34 (72,000 for Dynamite compared to RAW’s 71,000) but lost to Smackdown in that demo (79,000). Numbers were low for all three shows in men 35-49, where RAW (193,000) and Smackdown (225,000) beat Dynamite. The show pulled a 0.24 rating in 18-34.

Dynamite was #4 for the night and #2 in its time slot, behind the NBA games and Inside the NBA on TNT. It was #6 in women 18-49 (#4 in its time slot), #4 in men 18-49 (#2 in time slot), #5 in 18-34 (#3 in time slot), #4 in women 12-34 and #5 in men 12-34. AEW beat all but two of the network shows in 18-34, only behind Survivor and The Masked Singer. During its second hour, it was #2 on all TV in 18-34 behind the 76ers vs. Heat NBA playoff game.

That game had 3,425,000 viewers and a 1.15 in 18-49. Meanwhile, the Mavericks vs. Suns game went against the West Coast feed and had 4,171,000 viewers and a 1.47 rating.

Dynamite was down 9.6% viewers from last week, down 0.7% in 18-49 and up 29% in 18-34. Compared to last year, which featured Blood & Guts, it was down 23.6% in viewers, down 23.2% in 18-49 and up 29% in 18-34.

It had 97,000 viewers in men 18-34 (up 38.6%), 72,000 in women 18-34 (up 18.1%), 186,000 in men 35-49 (down 14.7%) and 67,000 in women 35-49 (down 10.7%). The audience was 67.2% male in 18-49. Dynamite had an 0.13 in 12-17 (down 7.1%), 0.24 in 18-34 (up 29%), 0.40 in 35-49 (down 13.7%) and 0.33 in 50+ (down 13.2%).

Q2 was the high point in viewers while Q4 was the high point in 18-49.

Q1: Jeff Hardy vs. Bobby Fish – 857,000 viewers, 421,000 in 18-49
Q2: Blackpool Combat Club vs. The Butcher, The Blade & Angelico/Jurassic Express & Team Taz segment – 873,000 viewers (up 16,000), 434,000 in 18-49 (up 13,000)
Q3: Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland promo/Wardlow vs. W. Morrissey – 866,000 viewers (down 7,000), 440,000 in 18-49 (up 6,000)
Q4: Britt Baker, Jamie Hayter, Ruby Soho and Toni Storm segment/Jay Lethal & Sonjay Dutt promo – 863,000 viewers (down 3,000), 444,000 in 18-49 (up 4,000)
Q5: Chris Jericho vs. Santana/Samoa Joe promo – 831,000 viewers (down 32,000), 421,000 in 18-49 (down 23,000)
Q6: Gunn Club & The Acclaimed segment/Varsity Blonds & House of Black segment/Jade Cargill promo/Rey Fenix vs. Dante Martin – 828,000 viewers (down 3,000), 434,000 in 18-49 (up 13,000)
Q7: End of Fenix vs. Martin/Darby Allin & Sting promo/Thunder Rosa & Serena Deeb segment – 773,000 viewers (down 55,000), 397,000 in 18-49 (down 37,000)
Q8: Mercedes Martinez vs. Deonna Purrazzo – 774,000 viewers (up 1,000), 380,000 in 18-49 (down 17,000)