AEW Dynamite Rating Backtracks 2026 High, Viewership Down

AEW Dynamite saw an expected drop from last week’s 2026 ratings high, with the total viewership also backtracking a bit. Wednesday’s show brought in a 0.12 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 706,000 viewers per Programming Insider. As always, these numbers do not include HBO Max viewing.

Those numbers are down 20% and 10.2% respectively from the previous week’s 0.15 demo rating and 768,000 viewers. The demo rating was even with the number from two weeks ago, while the total viewership was the lowest since the July 1st episode had an audience of 634,000.

The ratings victory for the night went to Big Brother on CBS with a 0.63 demo rating and 3.175 million viewers. Second place went to the return of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire on ABC (0.36 demo rating, 4.067 million viewers).

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 0.112 demo rating and 645,000 viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.165 and 620,000 for the same time period in 2025.