Update at 10:00 PM ET Thursday: Additional demographics info has been added. No data from Showbuzz yet.
Update at 4:50 PM ET Friday: Rankings and information for other telecasts from Showbuzz have been added.
AEW Dynamite last night on TBS, was watched by 870,000 viewers on average, including about 344,000 aged 18 to 49, for a 0.26 P18-49 rating.
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This was Dynamite’s lowest P18-49 viewership in its normal time-slot since March 31, 2021, which is near the end of the “Wednesday Night War” when the show was head-to-head with NXT.
Compared to last week, Dynamite was down 1% in total viewership. Among viewers 18 to 49, viewership was down 18% from last week’s 421,000.
Dynamite ranked #5 in P18-49 among cable originals for the day, according to Showbuzz Daily. Including broadcast primetime, it ranked #21.
The early college basketball game on ESPN (0.55), World Cup on FS1 (0.47), the late college basketball game on ESPN (0.44), and The Challenge on MTV (0.27) outranked Dynamite among cable originals.
For Dynamite, P35-49 was down 19% compared to the prior four weeks. F18-49 was down 18%. F35-49 was down 18%. M35-49 was down 15%.
Viewer counts in thousands, calculated from national ratings, for this week’s episode with difference versus the median of the last 28 days in parentheses:
For Dynamite, P35-49 was down 19% compared to the prior four weeks. P18-49 was down 13%. P18-34 was down 8%. Non-P18-49 was up 8%.
Viewer counts in thousands, calculated from national ratings, for this week’s episode with difference versus the median of the last 28 days in parentheses:
P2+: 870 (-3%)
P18-49: 344 (-13%)
M18-49: 240 (-8%)
F18-49: 105 (-18%)
P18-34: 143 (-8%)
M18-34: 104 (+1%)
F18-34: 39 (-14%)
P35-49: 202 (-19%)
M35-49: 136 (-15%)
F35-49: 66 (-18%)
Non-P18-49: 526 (+8%)
F12-34: 42 (-11%)
M12-34: 124 (+6%)
P25-54: 438 (-5%)
P50+: 484 (+6%)
Median age: 52.0 (+3%)
Most-viewed YouTube videos from Dynamite, as of 4pm today:
678,000: MJF’s Reign of Terror Has Just Begun
345,000: Who Made Their Return in Indy & Confronted Jon Moxley?
108,000: The Elite Climb Back Into the Series With a Huge Win!
43,000: Bryan Danielson & Dax Harwood Put on a Wrestling Match for the Ages
20,000: Samoa Joe Declares Himself the One True King of Television
View counts are rounded to improve readability.
This report was written with the assistance of automated programs created by me, then manually edited.
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Brandon Thurston
brandon@wrestlenomics.com
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