AEW Dynamite Rating & Viewership Tick Down Opposite NBA Playoffs

This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite saw its rating down like the rest of wrestling against the NBA Playoffs. Wednesday night’s episode brought in a 0.08 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 596,000 viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers are down 20.0% and 3.4% respectively from the previous week’s 0.10 demo rating and audience of 617,000. These numbers of course do not include HBO Max viewing.

The demo rating and the total audience were both the lowest for the show since the January 21st episode had a 0.08 demo rating and 498,000 viewers. Survivor 50 on CBS led the way with a 0.89 demo rating and 4.906 million viewers, followed by the NBA Playoffs led on ESPN with a 0.80 demo rating and 2.739 million viewers. The NHL Playoffs on TNT had a 0.37 and 1.456 million.

As a reminder, Nielsen made an adjustment to its Big Data + Panel numbers in late January, and even the original Big Data + Panel ratings make things difficult to compare to pre-change weeks. That said. AEW Dynamite is currently averaging a 0.111 demo rating and 638,000 viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.167 and 615,000 for the same time period in 2025.