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WWE NXT last night on USA Network, was watched by 857,000 viewers on average, including about 289,000 aged 18 to 49, for a 0.22 P18-49 rating.
This was NXT’s highest total viewership since October 28, 2020, and the highest P18-49 viewership since just September 19 of this year.
According to SportsTVRatings, two MLB Wild Card games opposing NXT were watched by 2,986,000 viewers on ESPN (Marlins vs. Phillies) and 1,864,000 viewers on ESPN2 (Diamondbacks vs. Brewers).
Despite the baseball competition, this week’s NXT was up 35% compared to last week’s total viewership of 636,000. Among viewers 18-49, viewership was up 23% from last week’s 0.18 rating.
Viewer counts in thousands for this week’s episode with the difference versus the median of the last 28 days in parentheses:
P2+: 857 (+14%)
P18-49: 289 (+5%)
M18-49: 173 (+0%)
F18-49: 116 (+13%)
P18-34: 107 (-8%)
M18-34: 60 (-15%)
F18-34: 47 (+16%)
P35-49: 182 (+19%)
M35-49: 113 (+10%)
F35-49: 69 (+18%)
Non-P18-49: 568 (+19%)
Most-viewed YouTube videos from NXT, as of 10pm today:
1. “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio recaptures the NXT North American Title: NXT, Oct. 3, 2023: 218,020
2. John Cena is coming to NXT to back up Carmelo Hayes: 178,204
3. Becky Lynch is searching for her next challenger: 143,701
4. Dragunov and Trick are confronted by Melo and “Dirty” Dom: 133,030
5. Paul Heyman wants to be in Bron Breakker’s corner: 110,330
6. Ridge Holland returns to NXT to save Butch & Tyler Bate: 103,522
7. Lyra Valkyria becomes the No. 1 Contender to the NXT Women’s Title: 99,656
8. A mysterious Superstar watches old highlights: 81,569
9. Baron Corbin promises to take the NXT Title from Ilja Dragunov: 68,031
10. Thea Hail & Jacy Jayne vs. Elektra Lopez & Lola Vice: 61,770
This ratings report was written with the assistance of automated programs created by me, then manually edited.
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Brandon Thurston
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Brandon Thurston has written about wrestling business since 2015. He operates and owns Wrestlenomics.