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AEW draws 906K, NXT 718K

March 6, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

AEW Dynamite on TNT Wednesday night drew 906,000 viewers and secured all of the key demos against WWE’s NXT on the USA Network.  NXT drew 718,000 viewers in the same time slot.

Dynamite drew 0.35 in the A18-49 demo and 0.49 in the M18-49.  It drew 0.40 in the A25-54 and 0.34 in the over 50 demo. 

Via AEW

WWE NXT drew 0.23 in the A18-49 demo and 0.29 in the M18-49.  It drew 0.27 in the A25-54 and 0.34 in the over 50 demo.

AEW Overall A18-49 A18-49 # M18-49 P25-54 P50+
Week 1 1,409,000 0.68 878,000 0.92 0.74 0.34
Week 2 1,018,000 0.60 594,000 0.66 0.52 0.30
Week 3 1,014,000 0.63 574,000 0.65 0.50 0.33
Week 4 963,000 0.45 586,000 0.62 0.46 0.25
Week 5 759,000 0.33 433,000 0.48 0.38 0.25
Week 6 822,000 0.35 450,000 0.46 0.38 0.28
Week 7 957,000 0.43 554,000 0.55 0.45 0.29
Week 8 893,000 0.39 505,000 0.52 0.42 0.29
Week 9 663,000 0.26 337,000 0.33 0.28 0.25
Week 10 851,000 0.32 409,000 0.41 0.35 0.31
Week 11 787,000 0.28 367,000 0.40 0.32 0.29
Week 12 683,000 0.25 319,000 0.34 0.28 0.27
Week 13 967,000 0.60 467,000 0.52 0.41 0.39
Week 14 947,000 0.56 465,000 0.49 0.41 0.36
Week 15 940,000 0.58 495,000 0.51 0.42 0.34
Week 16 871,000 0.50 455,000 0.48 0.41 0.34
Week 17 828,000 0.49 437,000 0.48 0.36 0.29
Week 18 928,000 0.36 468,000 0.50 0.39 0.34
Week 19 817,000 0.30 450,000 0.41 0.35 0.34
Week 20 893,000 0.31 394,000 0.44 0.36 0.38
Week 21 906,000 0.35   0.49 0.40 0.34
NXT Overall A18-49 M18-49 P25-54 P50+
Week 1 1,179,000 0.43 0.56 0.48 0.47
Week 2 1,006,000 0.32 0.40 0.37 0.48
Week 3 891,000 0.32 0.41 0.36 0.36
Week 4 790,000 0.22 0.29 0.27 0.40
Week 5 712,000 0.20 0.27 0.24 0.35
Week 6 698,000 0.21 0.23 0.26 0.33
Week 7 580,000 0.18 0.23 0.22 0.29
Week 8 813,000 0.30 0.38 0.34 0.34
Week 9 750,000 0.25 0.32 0.29 0.35
Week 10 916,000 0.30 0.39 0.35 0.40
Week 11 810,000 0.24 0.31 0.27 0.40
Week 12 845,000 0.29 0.36 0.32 0.38
Week 13 778,000 0.24 0.34 0.27 0.38
Week 14 795,000 0.27 0.31 0.28 0.36
Week 15 721,000 0.19      
Week 16 700,000 0.21 0.26 0.24 0.35
Week 17 769,000 0.24 0.32 0.27 0.38
Week 18 712,000 0.22 0.28 0.26 0.36
Week 19 770,000 0.22 0.30 0.26 0.40
Week 20 757,000 0.24 0.28 0.28 0.36
Week 21 794,000 0.25 0.32 0.30 0.38
Week 22 717,000 0.23 0.33 0.29 0.34
Week 23 718,000 0.23 0.29 0.27 0.34

*Data from Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily

Payout Perspective:

A small improvement in ratings for NXT but a bigger one for AEW which was coming off of a PPV this past Saturday.  The demos, except for the over 50 category, are controlled by AEW right now as the younger demo is skewed toward the upstart promotion. 

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