AEW Dynamite returned it to its regular timeslot on Wednesday topping 900,000 viewers and finishing eight for the night about cable programs.
The go-home episode for All Out averaged 928,000 viewers, which was AEW’s largest audience since March 18th along with a 0.36 rating in the 18-49 rating. The demo rating tied four other episodes this year for the second-highest of 2020.
There was no first-run episode of NXT airing on Wednesday, although Syfy aired a replay of Tuesday’s episode with the replay averaging 183,000 viewers and a 0.04 demo rating.
The big competition was the NBA playoff game between the Miami Heat and Milwaukee Bucks that did 2,742,000 viewers and finished second on the night. The late-game was the top program but didn’t start until 9:37 pm Eastern against the final 23 minutes of Dynamite. The late game between Oklahoma City and Houston did 4,106,000 and a 1.73 demo number.
AEW did very well with males 18-49 hitting as 0.51, their highest mark with that demo since January 15th while adults over 50 hit their highest number since March 18th.
The last Wednesday airing of Dynamite was on August 12th and compared to that week, males 12-34 jumped by 65 percent, adults over 50 increased by 35 percent, and males 18-49 improved by 34 percent. All of that has to be taken with a grain of salt by having the night to themselves with a new NXT episode.
The audience was that hit hardest was women 12-34 which did a 0.10 and were down 33 percent from the last Wednesday airing and down 28.5 percent from last Thursday’s number. NXT’s Super Tuesday special narrowly edged out AEW this week in that demo with a 0.11.
For our breakdown of the demo we compared this week’s figures to last Thursday’s unopposed airing of Dynamite and their last Wednesday night show on August 12th:
Source: Showbuzz Daily
ADULTS 18-49
This week: 0.36
Thursday, Aug. 27: 0.29
Wednesday, Aug. 12: 0.32
FEMALES 18-49
This week: 0.21
Thursday, Aug. 27: 0.19
Wednesday, Aug. 12: 0.26
MALES 18-49
This week: 0.51
Thursday, Aug. 27: 0.39
Wednesday, Aug. 12: 0.38
ADULTS 18-34
This week: 0.23
Thursday, Aug. 27: 0.19
Wednesday, Aug. 12: 0.18
FEMALES 12-34
This week: 0.10
Thursday, Aug. 27: 0.14
Wednesday, Aug. 12: 0.15
MALES 12-34
This week: 0.28
Thursday, Aug. 27: 0.25
Wednesday, Aug. 12: 0.17
ADULTS 25-54
This week: 0.43
Thursday, Aug. 27: 0.33
Wednesday, Aug. 12: 0.39
ADULTS 50+
This week: 0.35
Thursday, Aug. 27: 0.30
Wednesday, Aug. 12: 0.26
