The Christmas edition of NXT performed well on the USA Network with ratings coming in a day later this week due to the holiday.
With AEW not running this week, NXT had the pro wrestling audience to itself on Wednesday attracting 831,000 viewers on the USA Network. They were up 4.5% from last week’s figure and 7% from two weeks ago.
The show featured taped matches from Full Sail University and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn from last Friday’s SmackDown taping mixed with in-studio throws from Cathy Kelley, Pat McAfee, and Sam Roberts.
The 18-49 demo drew a 0.22 and was 29th among cable programming that day.
In the other demos, the big winner fluctuation was in NXT’s strongest demo of people over 50. This week they did a 0.42, which is the highest they have done since AEW started airing head-to-head in October. They stayed even among 12-34s from the week prior.
NXT also went against the L.A Lakers vs. Clippers game on ESPN that did 1,772,000 viewers.
Next Wednesday will feature another taped edition of NXT that includes the promotion’s year-end awards and the announcement of the teams for the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. AEW will run a live edition of Dynamite from Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida.
Here is the breakdown of the key demos:
PEOPLE 18-49
This week: 0.22 (-18.5%)
Last week: 0.27
FEMALES 18-49
This week: 0.16 (-27%)
Last week: 0.22
MALES 18-49
This week: 0.28 (-10%)
Last week: 0.31
PEOPLE 18-34
This week: 0.15 (-17%)
Last week: 0.18
FEMALES 12-34
This week: 0.11
Last week: 0.11
MALES 12-34
This week: 0.19
Last week: 0.19
PEOPLE 25-54
This week: 0.24 (-14%)
Last week: 0.28
PEOPLE 50+
This week: 0.42 (+17%)
Last week: 0.36
