Ratings Breakdown For This Week’s AEW Dynamite

As previously reported, this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite was even in the ratings and dropped slightly in viewership. It had 822,000 viewers and an 0.29 (381,000) viewers in the key 18-49 demographic. It also had an 0.21 in 18-34. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has a more detailed look at the numbers, including for each quarter hour.

Dynamite was #3 for the night, behind two NBA games on ESPN. It was #2 in its time slot, losing to New Orleans vs. Indiana (1,064,000/0.32). The late game between the Lakers and Clippers had 1,404,000/0.47. When comparing it to network TV, Dynamite also beat FOX in both hours, ABC in one hour and CBS in its second hour. Dynamite’s lead-in, The Big Bang Theory, had 1,124,000 viewers and an 0.23 rating. Dynamite’s overrun ended at 0.33 and the next program, a rerun of Modern Family, dropped to 0.06.

Compared to last week, the show was down 0.7% in viewers, even in 18-49 and down 5.1% in 18-34. Compared to last year, it was down 1.3% in viewers, up 7.6% in 18-49 and up 25% in 18-34. It had 106,000 viewers in men 18-34 (down 2.8%), 44,000 in women 18-34 (down 10.2%), 165,000 in men 35-49 (up 8.6%) and 66,000 in women 35-49 (down 7%). The audience was 71.1% male in 18-49.

Q1 was the peak in 25-54, overall 35-49, men 35-49, women 35-49, women 18-34 and women 18-49. The overrun was the peak in 18-49, men 18-49, 18-34, and men 18-34.

Q1: Samoa Joe, Hangman Page & Swerve Strickland segment/Young Bucks promo – 983,000 viewers, 430,000 in 18-49
Q2: Eddie Kingston & FTR vs. Blackpool Combat Club – 804,000 viewers (down 179,000), 366,000 in 18-49 (down 64,000)
Q3: End of Kingston & FTR vs. BCC – 799,000 viewers (down 5,000), 359,000 in 18-49 (down 7,000)
Q4: Chris Jericho promo/Will Ospreay & Don Callis Family segment – 835,000 viewers (up 36,000), 392,000 in 18-49 (up 33,000)
Q5: Orange Cassidy vs Nick Wayne – 799,000 viewers (down 36,000), 375,000 in 18-49 (down 17,000)
Q6: End of Cassidy vs. Wayne/Bang Bang Scissor Gang promo/Kris Statlander vs. Skye Blue – 767,000 viewers (down 32,000), 362,000 in 18-49 (down 13,000)
Q7: End of Statlander vs. Blue/Young Bucks segment/Chris Jericho vs. Atlantis Jr. – 766,000 viewers (down 1,000), 361,000 in 18-49 (down 1,000)
Q8: End of Jericho vs. Atlantis/The Young Bucks, Darby Allin, Sting & Ric Flair segment – 810,000 viewers (up 44,000), 395,000 in 18-49 (up 34,000)
Overrun: End of Bucks, Sting, Allin, Flair segment – 891,000 (up 81,000), 436,000 in 18-49 (up 41,000)