Category: TV ratings

AEW Dynamite, Jan 29 on TBS: 604,000 viewers; 0.17 P18-49 rating | TV ratings, attendance analysis

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TV RATINGS

AEW Dynamite on TBS
Wed, Jan. 29, 2025: 8:00 to 10:05 pm
604,000 viewers (P2+)
P18-49 rating: 0.17

Reported earlier by Programming Insider, not yet confirmed by Wrestlenomics.

Dynamite ranked #6 for the night in cable primetime in P18-49. NBA on ESPN, all three Fox News blocks, and the 10 pm CNN Newsnight ranked ahead.

P2+ comparisons:

  • This episode vs. last week (655,000): -8%

  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (634,000): -5%

  • Current 2025-Q1 P2+ average (628,000) vs. 2024-Q1 (810,000): -22%

  • Current Jan 2025 P2+ average (628,000) vs. Jan 2024 (829,000): -24%

P18-49 comparisons:

  • This episode vs. last week (0.19): -11%

  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (0.18): -6%

  • Current 2025-Q1 P18-49 average (0.17) vs. 2024-Q1 (0.28): -39%

  • Current Jan 2025 P18-49 average (0.17) vs. Jan 2024 (0.28): -39%

Viewer counts for this week’s episode with the difference versus the median of the last 4 non-preemption episodes in parentheses. Some viewer counts may be based on the national rating for that demo:

Update: M18-49 and F18-49 have been corrected, which were previously incorrectly reversed. P18-49 has been updated with the actually number of viewers (in thousands) instead of that number derived from the P18-49 national rating. The rating is the same.

  • P2+: 604k (-5%)
  • P18-49: 233k (-1%)
  • F18-49: 73k (-4%)
  • M18-49: 160k (-2%)
  • P18-34: 81k (+19%)
  • F18-34: 29k (+14%)
  • M18-34: 52k (+22%)
  • P35-49: 152k (-3%)
  • M35-49: 44k (-61%)
  • Non-P18-49: 371k (-6%)

Data Subscribers have access to the Wrestlenomics Viewership Spreadsheet.

LIVE EVENTS

Data from WrestleTix

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Huntsville, AL at Von Braun Center Propst Arena
Estimated tickets distributed:ย 2,171

Market-to-market comparisons (Huntsville, AL):

  • 2020-02-05 (Wed) – AEW Dynamite: 2,900ย (-25% vs. 2,171) โ† SAME EVENT TYPE

  • 2022-03-20 (Sun) – WWE Supershow: 3,314ย (-34%)

  • 2023-01-08 (Sun) – WWE Sunday Stunner: 3,702ย (-41%)

  • 2023-06-03 (Sat) – AEW House Rules: 2,237ย (-3%)

  • 2023-08-27 (Sun) – WWE Supershow: 4,548ย (-52%)

  • 2024-02-28 (Wed) – AEW Dynamite: 3,413ย (-36%) โ† SAME EVENT TYPE

  • 2024-09-29 (Sun) – WWE Supershow: 5,492ย (-60%)

Year-over-year comparison for this event type:
Current 2025-Q1 AEW Dynamite average: (2,435) vs. 2024-Q1 (4,138): -41%

DIGITAL

As of 7:01 pm, Jan 30

Most-viewed YouTube videos on AEW’s official channel:

  • 1.) 141,682 – Will Ospreay clashes with Don Callis Familyรขย€ย™s Machine: Brian Cage!

  • 2.) 103,050 – On his quest to the AEW World Title, Jeff Jarrett battles Claudio Castagnoli!

  • 3.) 88,567 – Hangman Adam Page & MJF come face-to-face again!

  • 4.) 85,883 – Could Yuka Sakazaki defeat TBS Champion, Mercedes Monรฉ, for the title?

  • 5.) 69,215 – Death Rider & AEW World Trios Champ Wheeler Yuta vs Switchblade Jay White!

  • 6.) 44,454 – A ruthless Ricochet takes on long-time nemesis, AR Fox!

  • 7.) 32,914 – Mariah May, AEW Womenรขย€ย™s World Champion, responds Timeless Toni Storm!

  • 8.) 2,623 – Mercedes Monรƒยฉ Rolls the Money Train through a Contentious Dynamite

RECEPTION

As of 7:02 pm, Jan 30

Event rating:

  • Cagematch.netย voter rating: 5.34 (52 votes)

  • This episode vs. last week (7.09): -25%

  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (7.04): -24%

  • Current 2025-Q1 average (6.70) vs. 2024-Q1 (7.67): -13%

Match ratings:

  • 6.92 (70 votes) – Will Ospreay vs. Brian Cage

  • 6.61 (73 votes) – Yuka Sakazaki vs. Mercedes Mone (c)

  • 6.24 (58 votes) – Ricochet vs. AR Fox

  • 5.19 (56 votes) – Jay White vs. Wheeler Yuta

  • 2.57 (67 votes) – Claudio Castagnoli vs. Jeff Jarrett

This report was produced with the assistance of programming scripts created by me.

brandon@wrestlenomics.com

Quarter-hours: WWE NXT, January 28

Jason Ounpraseuth contributed to this report by producing content labels.

Viewership data according to a Nielsen source.

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WWE NXT, Jan 28 on CW: 827,000 viewers; 0.19 P18-49 rating | TV ratings, attendance analysis

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TV RATINGS

WWE NXT on CW
Tue, Jan. 28, 2025: 8:00 to 10:00 pm
827,000 viewers (P2+)
P18-49 rating: 0.19

Reported earlier by Programming Insider, not yet confirmed by Wrestlenomics.

P2+ comparisons:

  • This episode vs. last week (812,000): +2%

  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (754,000): +10%

  • Current 2025-Q1 P2+ average (804,000) vs. 2024-Q1 (643,000): +25%

  • Current Jan 2025 P2+ average (804,000) vs. Jan 2024 (693,000): +16%

P18-49 comparisons:

  • This episode vs. last week (0.22): -14%

  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (0.19): +0%

  • Current 2025-Q1 P18-49 average (0.20) vs. 2024-Q1 (0.18): +11%

  • Current Jan 2025 P18-49 average (0.20) vs. Jan 2024 (0.20): +0%

Viewer counts for this week’s episode with the difference versus the median of the last 4 non-preemption episodes in parentheses. Some viewer counts may be based on the national rating for that demo:

  • P2+: 827k (+5%)

  • P18-49: 255k (+0%)

  • F18-49: 87k (+24%)

  • M18-49: 168k (-4%)

  • Non-P18-49: 572k (+11%)

Data Subscribers have access to the Wrestlenomics Viewership Spreadsheet.

LIVE EVENTS

Data from WrestleTix

Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Atlanta, GA at Center Stage Theater
Estimated tickets distributed:ย 772

Market-to-market comparisons (Atlanta, GA):

  • 2022-01-01 (Sat) – WWE Day 1: 11,213ย (-93% vs. 772)

  • 2022-07-29 (Fri) – WWE Smackdown: 9,368ย (-92%)

  • 2022-12-27 (Tue) – WWE Live: 7,821ย (-90%)

  • 2023-07-17 (Mon) – WWE Raw: 12,014ย (-94%)

  • 2024-01-19 (Fri) – WWE Smackdown: 12,009ย (-94%)

  • 2024-10-05 (Sat) – WWE Bad Blood: 14,957ย (-95%)

  • 2025-01-27 (Mon) – WWE Raw: 12,098ย (-94%)

DIGITAL

As of 5:03 pm, Jan 29

Most-viewed YouTube videos on WWE’s official channel:

  • 1.) 96,448 – Oba Femi drops Trick Williams to stop “Grayson Waller Effect” brawl

  • 2.) 89,075 – Giulia & Bayley unite to defeat Roxanne Perez & Cora Jade

  • 3.) 74,806 – Stephanie Vaquer interrupts Fallon Henley’s title celebration

  • 4.) 71,092 – Trick Williams snaps on Wes Lee and gets disqualified

  • 5.) 45,140 – Je’Von Evans stops another Ethan Page attack

This report was produced with the assistance of programming scripts created by me.

brandon@wrestlenomics.com

Quarter-hours: WWE Smackdown, January 24

Methodology update:ย Pertaining to the trendlines in the line charts, I have changed how the data point for the first quarter-hour is calculated. It’s now aggregated as a median instead of an average. The time window is the same: the trailing 90 days.

I made this change because Collision’s trendline was being skewed high due to the December 21 episode that started with 1,264,000 viewers thanks to the College Football Playoff lead-in. That first quarter-hour instance is so much greater than the norm that it was skewing the trendline significantly higher than it would be otherwise, giving a false impression about the typical starting point for Collision. Calculating the first trendline data point as a median instead of an average mitigates this problem. To be consistent , and because other programs could be subject to a similar anomaly, I changed the calculation for all programs going forward (including Smackdown here which I prepared at the same time as the latest Collision quarter-hour report). The difference is minor for programs’ latest trendlines other than Collision.

To be clear, the trendline for the first quarter-hour continues to be calculated differently than the rest of the quarter-hours, which has already been the case. The subsequent data points are calculated based on the average quarter-to-quarter change looking back the prior 90 days’ non-preemption episodes. Because we don’t know what the viewership was for the quarter-hour before the first quarter-hour of the given program, we use a different calculation, deriving the “typical” starting point. Have your eyes glazed over yet?

To be extra clear just in case: This has nothing to do with the quarter-hour viewership data itself, which comes from Nielsen via sources. This note pertains only to our dashed trendlines that appear on the line charts. This also doesn’t affect anything that appears in the table images. Wrestlenomics calculates the dashed trendlines in the line charts to give readers an idea of what’s normal for the given quarter-hour data point.

Jason Ounpraseuth contributed to this report by producing content labels.

Viewership data according to a Nielsen source.

If you rely on this report in any subsequent reports or social media posts, please credit Wrestlenomics. Please donโ€™t re-publish the chart images themselves.

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Quarter-hours: AEW Collision, January 25

Methodology update: Pertaining to the trendlines in the line charts, I have changed how the data point for the first quarter-hour is calculated. It’s now aggregated as a median instead of an average. The time window is the same: the trailing 90 days.

I made this change because Collision’s trendline was being skewed high due to the December 21 episode that started with 1,264,000 viewers thanks to the College Football Playoff lead-in. That first quarter-hour instance is so much greater than the norm that it was skewing the trendline significantly higher than it would be otherwise, giving a false impression about the typical starting point for Collision. Calculating the first trendline data point as a median instead of an average mitigates this problem. To be consistent , and because other programs could be subject to a similar anomaly, I changed the calculation for all programs going forward. The difference is minor for programs’ latest trendlines other than Collision.

To be clear, the trendline for the first quarter-hour continues to be calculated differently than the rest of the quarter-hours, which has already been the case. The subsequent data points are calculated based on the average quarter-to-quarter change looking back the prior 90 days’ non-preemption episodes. Because we don’t know what the viewership was for the quarter-hour before the first quarter-hour of the given program, we use a different calculation, deriving the “typical” starting point. Have your eyes glazed over yet?

To be extra clear just in case: This has nothing to do with the quarter-hour viewership data itself, which comes from Nielsen via sources. This note pertains only to our dashed trendlines that appear on the line charts. This also doesn’t affect anything that appears in the table images. Wrestlenomics calculates the dashed trendlines in the line charts to give readers an idea of what’s normal for the given quarter-hour data point.

Here’s what the quarter-hour line chart for this episode of Collision would look like without this adjustment.

Jason Ounpraseuth contributed to this report by producing content labels.

Viewership data according to a Nielsen source.

If you rely on this report in any subsequent reports or social media posts, please credit Wrestlenomics. Please donโ€™t re-publish the chart images themselves.

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Brandon Thurston
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WWE Raw on Netflix, January 20 | Third episode got 3 million global views for the week; Viewership, attendance analysis

Global 7-day viewership

WWE Raw on Netflix
Monday, January 20, 2025
3,000,000 global views

Data is from Netflix‘s Tudum weekly top 10 TV show rankings.

Global views are defined by Netflix as hours watched divided by duration. The measurement indicates viewership for the entire seven-day period from the program’s airing.

Raw ranked #7 globally for the week. It ranked #4 globally for both of the first two episodes. Raw ranked #4 in the United States, the same as last week. The premiere ranked #5 in the U.S.

As always, Netflix only publishes global data (and only for the programs in its top 10), so we don’t have U.S. viewership data. It’s notable, though, that live viewing in the U.S. was opposed by the College football national championship game (Notre Dame vs. Ohio State) on ESPN which had 20,723,000 viewers, according to Programming Insider.

Netflix announced that the premiere on January 6, averaged 2.6 million households live+same-day in the U.S., which is more than double the 1.22 million households that watched Raw on average throughout 2024.

Analysis: If we assume U.S. live+same-day household viewership has declined to exactly the same degree from the premiere as global seven-day viewership (49%), then U.S. live+same-day household viewership for episode 3 of Raw on Netflix would have averaged 1.32 million households, higher than its 2024 average (1.22 million) and its January 2024 average (1.29 million). Note that the metric we’re considering here is households and not viewers, as a number of viewers on Netflix hasn’t been reported. Raw in 2024 averaged 1.66 million viewers live+same-day. However, given the college football game competition, it’s reasonable to imagine U.S. viewership for the January 20 episode might have been especially impacted.

Above: The global rankings chart for Jan. 20 to Jan. 26, 2025.

LIVE EVENTS

Data from WrestleTix

Monday, January 20, 2025
Dallas, TX at American Airlines Center
Estimated tickets distributed: 14,324

Market-to-market comparisons (Dallas, TX):

  • 2021-07-19 (Mon) – WWE Raw: 10,478 (+37% vs. 14,324) โ† SAME EVENT TYPE
  • 2022-04-01 (Fri) – WWE Smackdown: 12,011 (+19%)
  • 2022-04-02 (Sat) – WWE Wrestlemania: 65,719 (-78%)
  • 2022-04-03 (Sun) – WWE Wrestlemania: 65,653 (-78%)
  • 2022-04-04 (Mon) – WWE Raw: 10,392 (+38%) โ† SAME EVENT TYPE
  • 2022-10-31 (Mon) – WWE Raw: 8,505 (+68%) โ† SAME EVENT TYPE
  • 2023-10-23 (Mon) – WWE Raw: 11,949 (+20%) โ† SAME EVENT TYPE
  • 2024-03-08 (Fri) – WWE Smackdown: 14,001 (+2%)

Year-over-year comparison for this event type:
Current 2025-Q1 WWE Raw average: (14,911) vs. 2024-Q1 (11,418): +31%

RECEPTION

As of 3:34 pm, Jan 28

Event rating:

  • Cagematch.net voter rating: 7.20 (140 votes)
  • This episode vs. last week (8.14): -12%
  • This episode vs. trailing four weeks (6.53): +10%
  • Current 2025-Q1 average (6.83) vs. 2024-Q1 (7.45): -8%

Match ratings:

  • 7.46 (206 votes) – Drew McIntyre vs. Seth Rollins
  • 7.07 (214 votes) – Pete Dunne vs. Penta
  • 5.88 (148 votes) – Bayley vs. Nia Jax
  • 5.82 (154 votes) – Kofi Kingston vs. Rey Mysterio
  • 5.50 (142 votes) – Damage CTRL (Dakota Kai & IYO SKY) vs. Pure Fusion Collective (Shayna Baszler & Zoey Stark)

This report was produced with the assistance of programming scripts created by me.

brandon@wrestlenomics.com

Brandon Thurston has written about wrestling business since 2015. He operates and owns Wrestlenomics.