Ratings Breakdown For This Week’s AEW Dynamite: NBA Playoffs Cause Sharp Decline In Second Half

As previously reported, AEW Dynamite was slightly up in viewership and the key 18-49 demographic rating, doing some of it best numbers in weeks. The show brought in 929,000 viewers, an 0.35 (450,000 viewers) rating in 18-49 and an 0.24 in 18-34. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has more details on the numbers, including each individual quarter-hour. The NBA game between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat, Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, siphoned a lot of viewers away for the show’s second half. Until the game started in Q3, the show was pulling in over a million viewers per quarter. After, that number dropped significantly. The only time it went up was for the main event.

Dynamite was #6 for the night and #3 in its time slot behind NBA (6,510,000/2.29) and the NHL (1,394,000/0.47). News numbers were also up, with Tucker Carlson on FOX News getting 3,180,000 viewers and a 0.26 rating. Dynamite was #5 in women 18-49, #6 in men 18-49, #6 in 18-34, #5 in women 12-34 and #7 in men 12-34.

Compared to last week, it was up 0.8% in viewers, up 4.4% in 18-49 and up 10.5% in 18-34. Last year, it was pre-empted for basketball and aired in Rampage’s current time slot (526,000 viewers/0.20 rating).

Overall the show had 90,000 viewers in men 18-34 (down 4.3%), 79,000 in women 18-34 (up 33.9%), 204,000 in men 35-49 (down 2.9%) and 77,000 in women 35-49 (up 14.7%). The audience was 67.6% male in 18-49. It had an 0.13 in 12-17 (down 7.1%), 0.24 in 18-34 (up 10.5%), 0.46 in 35-49 (up 4.7%) and 0.36 in 50+ (down 5.3%).

Q1 was the peak in total viewers, 18-49, women 18-49, women 18-34 and women 35-49. Q2 was the peak with men 18-49, 18-34 and men 18-34. Q3 was the peak with men 35-49.

Q1: Wardlow vs. Shawn Spears – 1,126,000 viewers, 515,000 in 18-49
Q2: Jericho Appreciation Society segment/CM Punk & Hangman Page segment – 1,051,000 viewers (down 75,000), 501,000 in 18-49 (down 14,000)
Q3: Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston vs. Private Party – 1,000,000 viewers (down 51,000), 475,000 in 18-49 (down 26,000)
Q4: FTR vs. Roppongi Vice – 876,000 viewers (down 124,000), 424,000 in 18-49 (down 51,000)
Q5: United Empire attack/Hardys promo/Ricky Starks vs. Jungle Boy vs. Swerve Strickland – 850,000 viewers (down 26,000), 438,000 in 18-49 (up 14,000)
Q6: End of Starks vs. Strickland vs. Jungle Boy/Men of the Year promo/Thunder Rosa promo/Red Velvet & Ruby Soho segment – 842,000 viewers (down 8,000), 429,000 in 18-49 (down 9,000)
Q7: Britt Baker vs. Toni Storm – 822,000 viewers (down 20,000), 406,000 in 18-49 (down 23,000)
Q8: Samoa Joe vs. Kyle O’Reilly – 863,000 viewers (up 41,000), 417,000 in 18-49 (up 11,000)