Ratings Breakdown For AEW Dynamite Grand Slam: Every Quarter Gets Over A Million Viewers

As previously reported, AEW Dynamite Grand Slam was down in both viewership and ratings, even if it was the top show of the night in the demo. The show pulled in 1,039,000 viewers with an 0.35 (458,000 viewers) in the key 18-49 demo. It also had a 0.28 in 18-34. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has a full look at the numbers, including a breakdown of each individual quarter-hour.

With the four networks running season premieres, network viewership was up 52% in viewers and 54% in 18-49 from last week. In spite of this, AEW still kept a million viewers in all eight quarter-hours, with Q1 performing the best in viewership and Q3 performing the best in 18-49. Although it should be noted last year’s Grand Slam also went against network premieres and still performed better than this year did. Compared to last year, Grand Slam was down 18.4% in viewers, down 27% in 18-49 and down 7% in 18-34.

Compared to last week it’s less severe, as it was down 11.6% in viewers, down 10.2% in 18-49 and down 5.7% in 18-34.

Dynamite did have a good number in women 18-34, which was actually tied with Smackdown and better than RAW. Dynamite also beat RAW in 18-34 overall, although RAW had stronger competition.

Dynamite was #1 on cable, beating Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (1,124,000; 0.32). It was #3 with women 18-49, #1 in men 18-49, #1 n 18-34, #1 in women 12-34 and #1 in men 12-34. It had 109,000 viewers in men 18-34 (down 19.9%), 91,000 in women 18-34 (up 19.7%), 185,000 in men 35-49 (down 16.3%) and 73,000 in women 35-49 (down 5.2%). The audience was 64.2% male in 18-49. The show had an 0.18 in 12-17 (down 5.3% from last week), 0.28 in 18-34 (down 5.7%), 0.42 in 35-49 (down 13.4%) and 0.46 in 50+ (down 8%).

Q1: Chris Jericho vs. Claudio Castagnoli – 1,081,000 viewers, 476,000 in 18-49
Q2: End of Jericho vs. Castagnoli/World title video package/Swerve In Our Glory vs. The Acclaimed – 1,009,000 viewers (down 72,000), 457,000 in 18-49 (down 19,000)
Q3: End of Swerve In Our Glory vs. The Acclaimed/FTR & Gunn Club segment – 1,046,000 viewers (up 37,000), 485,000 in 18-49 (up 28,000)
Q4: MJF & Wheeler Yuta segment/Jade Cargill & Diamante segment/PAC vs. Orange Cassidy – 1,022,000 viewers (down 24,000), 474,000 in 18-49 (down 9,000)
Q5: End of PAC vs. Cassidy – 1,013,000 viewers (down 9,000), 431,000 in 18-49 (down 43,000)
Q6: Toni Storm vs. Athena vs. Serena Deeb vs. Britt Baker/Saraya debuts – 1,054,000 viewers (up 41,000), 446,000 in 18-49 (up 15,000)
Q7: End of Saraya debut/Darby Allin video/Bryan Danielson vs. Jon Moxley – 1,026,000 viewers (down 28,000), 447,000 in 18-49 (up 1,000)
Q8: End of Danielson vs. Moxley – 1,058,000 viewers (up 32,000), 450,000 in 18-49 (up 3,000)