Jussi
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I forget, only AEW is allowed to use other sports as an excuse for declining viewership on individual week.
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This is really bothering you.
If it makes you feel better, Let's compare this week's AEW to NXT from the week prior. AEW still crushed them. There.
Emperoreddy
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Opening Rhea/Dom segment did close to 2 million. The following Sheamus/Reed match lost 300k viewers
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the 46k viewers that passed up on nxt to watch the mlb all star game were definitely present in the 2m raw opening
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They advertised a good match between stars, rather than Tony's typical strategy of putting a Jon Moxley vs. a Lee Moriarty and wondering why nobody tuned in for the inevitable outcome.
Emperoreddy
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Anniversary episode with an advertised big money match and no real competition outside of the news.
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I actually don't have a problem with it. They've badly needed to get away from putting a top guy against a jobber and having a 10-15 match for a long time now.
It showed in the ratings that it worked. Still not a great rating considering they were over 800K typically a year ago, but it's a big bump. Maybe Tony learns from it.
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You can't do half PPV's every week and expect it to be successful. Why would I care about an MJF/Ospreay match for $80 when I can watch it on Wednesdays for free?
True, but it's not out of the ordinary for an "Anniversary" show. This was 250 right?
RAW 1,000 I think was Punk vs. Cena and ended with Punk turning heel on The Rock.
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Fro
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Sorta. Not really the competition as much as the boot to SyFy. (Which was for the Olympics, If that's what you meant)
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You're not going to get through. No wrestling exists outside of the WWE.
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Raw lost about the same amount as NXT being on SyFy. We'll see what Dynamite did against some strong American performances at the Olympics.
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Yes and no...raw wasn't down that much I thought...but either way, the drop was due to the Olympics
1.793m vs 1.412m and 633k vs 468k. 21% decline for Raw and 26% decline for NXT.
Ratings fluctuate week to week anyways and maybe even if there was no Olympics and the shows were on USA the ratings may have been lower than the previous week however we will neve know.
We're all just idiots typing on our phones, tablets or keyboards so what do we know but I would wager that if the episodes were on USA instead of SyFy the decline would be less than the 20%+ that occurred thus the change in networks is more important than the fact that people could be watching the Olympics. Yes they were on a different channel because USA was airing Olympic coverage however there are other times they get bumped to SyFy and sometimes Smackdown gets bumped from Fox to FS1 and the vast majority of the time, if not every time, the ratings are less than they normally receive.
edit...Dynamite was 786k vs 609k which is a 22.5% decline. I stand by my comments and generally speaking Dynamite does seem to fluctuate more than WWE shows. Since it's a similar decline to the other two shows the Olympics is the only reason for the drop crowd has some data to back up their theory but I'll die on the hill that the vast majority of the time SyFy would get less ratings than USA regardless of the Olympics.
Ratings fluctuate week to week anyways and maybe even if there was no Olympics and the shows were on USA the ratings may have been lower than the previous week however we will neve know.
We're all just idiots typing on our phones, tablets or keyboards so what do we know but I would wager that if the episodes were on USA instead of SyFy the decline would be less than the 20%+ that occurred thus the change in networks is more important than the fact that people could be watching the Olympics. Yes they were on a different channel because USA was airing Olympic coverage however there are other times they get bumped to SyFy and sometimes Smackdown gets bumped from Fox to FS1 and the vast majority of the time, if not every time, the ratings are less than they normally receive.
edit...Dynamite was 786k vs 609k which is a 22.5% decline. I stand by my comments and generally speaking Dynamite does seem to fluctuate more than WWE shows. Since it's a similar decline to the other two shows the Olympics is the only reason for the drop crowd has some data to back up their theory but I'll die on the hill that the vast majority of the time SyFy would get less ratings than USA regardless of the Olympics.
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Jussi
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Is NBC still not airing certain events live on their networks? Like gymnastics, swimming or basketball?
