AEW Collision, Sep 2 on TNT: 345,000 viewers; 0.11 P18-49 rating

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AEW Collision Saturday on TNT, was watched by 345,000 viewers on average, including about 144,000 aged 18 to 49, for a 0.11 P18-49 rating.

This was the least-watched Collision yet in the show’s 12-episode history. The previous low was for the August 5 episode, which was head-to-head with Summerslam, and averaged 417,000 viewers and a 0.13 P18-49 rating.

This week’s episode went head-to-head with WWE Payback on Peacock and a college football game (North Carolina vs . South Carolina) on ABC and West Virginia vs. Penn State on NBC. The ABC game averaged 3.4 million viewers and the NBC game averaged 3.5 million viewers, according to @SportsTVRatings.

Collision will go against college football competition for the rest of the year, and MLB playoffs in October. The next WWE PLE is Fastlane on Saturday, October 7.

We don’t have ranking information yet but among sports programming on cable and broadcast, Collision was outranked by 36 other sports telecasts in P18-49 on Saturday.

The AEW Countdown special for All Out aired on TNT at 10:02 pm, after Collision, and was watched by 159,000 viewers on average, including about 61,000 aged 18 to 49, for a 0.05 P18-49 rating.

This Countdown airing had the lowest total viewership in the history of those specials. The March 3 Countdown ahead of Revolution this year had lower P18-49 viewership, however, with a 0.04 P18-49 rating.

This week’s Collision was down 38% compared to last week’s total viewership of 552,000. Among viewers 18 to 49, viewership was down 29% from last week’s 0.16 rating.

Viewer counts in thousands for this week’s episode with the difference versus the median of the last 28 days in parentheses:

Collision:

P2+: 345 (-28%)

P18-49: 144 (-32%)

M18-49: 103 (-31%)

F18-49: 42 (-29%)

P18-34: 39 (-42%)

M18-34: 22 (-52%)

F18-34: 17 (-24%)

P35-49: 105 (-27%)

M35-49: 80 (-22%)

F35-49: 25 (-32%)

Non-P18-49: 201 (-21%)

Most-viewed YouTube videos from Collision, as of 11am today:

1. Ricky Starks gets face-to-face with wrestling LEGEND Ricky Steamboat! : 243,548

2. Darby Allin explains himself to Nick Wayne, but here comes Christian Cage!: 139,027

3. AEW Tag Team Champ, Dax Harwood, goes one-on-one with BCG’s Jay White!: 131,548

4. New AEW Trios Champs, The Acclaimed, take on Garcia, Menard, & Parker!: 75,499

5. Former ROH World Tag Champs, Aussie Open, take on Nick Wayne & Komander!: 37,061

This ratings report was written with the assistance of automated programs created by me, then manually edited.

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Brandon Thurston
brandon@wrestlenomics.com