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AEW Dynamite Rating Even, Audience Slightly Down From Last Week

May 16, 2026 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
AEW Dynamite MJF Darby Allin 5-13-26 Image Credit: AEW

This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite held even in the rating from the previous week, with the audience just slightly down. Wednesday night’s episode brought in a 0.08 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 585,000 viewers per Programming Insider. Those numbers are even with and down 0.9% respectively from the previous week’s 0.10 demo rating and audience of 590,000. These numbers of course do not include HBO Max viewing.

The demo rating was up from two weeks ago, though the total audience was the lowest for the show since the January 21st episode had 498,000 viewers. The NBA Playoffs led the night on ESPN with a 1.56 demo rating and 5.203 million viewers, followed by Survivor 50 on CBS with a 1.00 demo rating and 5.338 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 0.110 demo rating and 633,000 viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.167 and 618,000 for the same time period in 2025.

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