The Ratings Are In
And it was a squash.https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/wow-aew-dynamites-ratings-viewership-numbers-hit-park-smash-nxt-setting-record/
AEW walloped NXT by about 500,000 viewers, plus beat last week’s Smackdown in the 18-49 demographic. That’s WAY beyond what any reasonable expectations could have been and will keep TNT happy for a long, long time.
It was a great case of everything coming together well and while there is room for improvement on AEW, I’m not sure how much better it could have gone. As I’ll say about anything though: well done. Now do it again, but better.
Only thing I’d caution for AEW is that this is the same rating TNA got when it launched on Monday. AEW is obviously far more competent than TNA though.
Yeah but impact didn’t even beat Raw on it’s first night and I think that it’s different because impact was trying to compete with raw really hard whereas aew went out of there way to put their show on a Wednesday when wwe wasn’t doing anything and wwe freaked out and put nxt on USA three weeks before dynamite was set to premiere. Also it’s not like nxts ratings have been crazy good so it’s not as tough competition whereas tna just gave up on impact on Monday’s because they were getting trounced so hard.
I’m ALL IN!!!!
Holy crap, an actual sentence.