Wednesday’s viewership figures are in that showed a near dead heat in viewership while AEW maintained control of the key demographic.
NXT’s special TakeOver edition of the show results in 693,000 viewers watching the show on the USA Network, which was an improvement by 17% from last week’s low number of 590,000.
NXT narrowly edged AEW by 1,000 viewers with Dynamite averaging 692,000 viewers and up 1% from last week. However, it was AEW ranked 32nd among cable programs with a 0.26 in the 18-49 demographic. NXT finished 51st with a 0.19 in the key demo of which the programming is ranked by.
NXT was built around the blow-off match between Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa that took up most of the second hour of the program. It also featured a six-way ladder match with Io Shirai winning and becoming the #1 contender for the NXT women’s title.
AEW launched the TNT Championship tournament that saw Cody advance to the semi-finals after beating Shawn Spears with the figure-four. Next week’s episode will feature a taped match between AEW champion Jon Moxley and Jake Hager for the title.
AEW was up with adults 18-49 and males 18-49 by 4% and 6% respectively. They were down with women 12-34 by 27% and adults 18-34 by 13% from last week.
We don’t have breakdowns of the demos for NXT, which did not chart among the top 50 cable programs for Wednesday night.
