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%)

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LIVE EVENTS

Data from WrestleTix

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 2024-09-29 (Sun) – WWE Supershow: 5,492 (-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 Family’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 Moné, 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 Women’s World Champion, responds Timeless Toni Storm!

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

RECEPTION

As of 7:02 pm, Jan 30

Event rating:

  • Cagematch.net 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