The go-home edition of AEW Dynamite before Full Gear ranked fourth among cable programs in prime time on Wednesday.
The November 20 episode averaged 640,000 viewers and 268,000 viewers (0.20) in the 18-49 demographic, per Programming Insider, PW Torch & Wrestlenomics.
The show ranked behind Milwaukee Bucks vs. Chicago Bulls on ESPN (1,217,000 viewers and 0.35 in the demo), Jesse Watters Primetime (3,734,000 and 0.25), and Gutfeld (3,221,000 and 0.22) on Fox News among prime-time cable programming. Dynamite also aired against the CMA Awards, which topped everything on television with 6,082,000 viewers and 0.81 in the demo on ABC.
Dynamite saw a 4% decrease in its overall viewership with the 18-49 audience falling by 7% with a two-week low in both categories.
In the 18-49 category, males fell by 8% averaging 182,000 viewers with females down by 12% and an average of 80,000 this week.
Wrestlenomics reports that the peak quarter was the opening fifteen minutes of the show with the All-Star 8-Man Tag averaging 747,000 viewers and 0.22 in the demo. The show featured a six-minute overrun, which did grow the audience by 6% and the 18-49 audience increased by 12% for the ending of Orange Cassidy vs. Wheeler Yuta and post-match attack. However, the 9:45 – 10 p.m. ET portion featuring the main event match was the least-watched quarter of the show.
In Canada, Dynamite averaged 76,400 viewers and 45,200 in the 25-54 demographic on TSN 2 and ranked sixth among sports programming on Wednesday. The figures were down from last week’s numbers of 93,900 and 48,400 respectively.
