The debut of AEW Rampage on Friday night drew 740,000 viewers per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily (Welcome back!) The telecast is the latest programming efforts from All Elite Wrestling. AEW Dynamite has been on a success Wednesday night and the expansion of the promotion hopes to take advantage of the momentum. Rampage ranked third overall […]
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Booker T loses his copyright case against Activision
It took a little over 3 hours for a Texas jury determined that Activision did not violate copyright laws as claimed by former WWE wrestler Booker Huffman (aka Booker T). The issue at hand was whether Booker’s “GI Bro” character was used in the Call of Duty video game. The case went to trial this […]
NXT 697K
NXT on the USA Network drew 697,000 viewers on Tuesday night per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. In its 5th week running unopposed to AEW, the NXT brand took a dip this week falling yet again after its high of 841,000 viewers on April 20th. April 13th: 805,000 April 20th: 841,000 April 27th: 744,000 May 4th: […]
AEW draws 1.104M viewers
AEW Dynamite drew 1.104 million viewers on TNT Wednesday night making it second in cable for the night. The telecast drew 0.37 in the A18-49 demo. It was the second straight week that AEW drew over 1 million viewers running unopposed to another pro wrestling show with NXT on USA moving to Tuesdays. The telecast […]
AEW, NXT both have big weeks in ratings
Last week, NXT and AEW produced big weeks with NXT moving to Tuesday night and AEW remaining on Wednesday. On Tuesday, NXT finished 8th overall in cable and delivered 805,000 viewers. It drew 0.22 in the A18-49 demo, 0.19 F18-49, 0.26 M18-49, 0.10 in A18-34, 0.08 F12-34, 0.14 M12-34, 0.27A25-54 and 0.40 in over 50. […]