The Ratings Thread - a lot of people watched wrestling on Super Tuesday, sort of

[Sens]

Is it just me or is that not too bad for AEW going up against a WS Game 7?

As good as Smackdown did the other day lol

 

[Jussi]

For comparison, how did the Game 7 do?

 

[M.C.G. 31]

For comparison, how did the Game 7 do?

Over 23m.

 

[Tom ServoMST3K]

Pretty much in the range of what was expected for both.

I'm sure AEW wanted to be over 800k and NXT over 600k, but it's not terrible.

 

[GKJ]

With baseball out of the way, it's time for some of these ratings to get serious.

 

[Natey]

The gap is getting closer with AEW and NXT.

And it should. NXT is the better show right now. AEW is the second best wrestling show on TV.

 

[Natey]

Is Smackdown getting higher or lower ratings than whatever was in that Friday night timeslot on Fox before?

The first week was really high.

If I'm not mistaken, last week was on a different Network on Fox because of baseball.

 

[GKJ]

The gap was closer because more fans were concentrated. Both were down against baseball.

 

[Natey]

The gap was closer because more fans were concentrated. Both were down against baseball.

The gap has been shrinking every week.

 

[GKJ]

The gap has been shrinking every week.

When less people are watching every week, there’s less people to stop watching.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

The gap has been shrinking every week.

AEW still doubles up NXT at minimum in key demos with the exception of this week.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

I’m just happy AEW is getting solid ratings meaning they’re not going anywhere.

I don’t have to watch a product from a garbage company, nxt included since it still has wwe stink on it, and still have easy access to a wrestling fix.

 

[Jussi]

Over 23m.

So both shows should be lucky to have gotten what they did.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

The gap is getting closer with AEW and NXT.

And it should. NXT is the better show right now. AEW is the second best wrestling show on TV.

In your opinion. Just because you like NXT better doesn't make it factually the best show. The ratings are fun to follow but anyone trying to make real judgements from a month of data is out to lunch.

 

[sabremike]

Here's a sobering thought about the state of WWE: The AEW rating this week was only 122k lower than Smackdown on FS1 (Which while on a different station was still heavily pushed on highly rated Fox programing like the NFL and World Series).

 

[Natey]

In your opinion. Just because you like NXT better doesn't make it factually the best show. The ratings are fun to follow but anyone trying to make real judgements from a month of data is out to lunch.

Wrong. What I say is correct.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

AEW had another 116k viewers on the replay at 12:30am.

 

[Jussi]

AEW had another 116k viewers on the replay at 12:30am.

How many watched the NXT replay?

 

[TheBeastCoast]

How many watched the NXT replay?

I am pretty sure they don't do a replay.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Do we have the Canadian numbers for AEW yet?

 

[M.C.G. 31]

How many watched the NXT replay?

Don’t think they do a replay other than the network one. If they do, wasn’t enough to be in the top 150.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Yeah NXT doesn’t have a replay

 

[BluesOne31]

WWE aired a special 1-hour replay of last week's NXT prior to this week's episode. Not sure if that's going to be a normal thing.

 

[KaseMeOutside]

Next week is an important week, and I think AEW saved enough to have a hot show heading into the PPV

 

[ColePens]

Yeah NXT doesn’t have a replay

Well they do.. it's called the Network. And I would imagine still a lot of people are just watching on the Network. I'm DVRing both, but if I can't DVR 2 things w/ the Pens playing, I DVR AEW and then watch NXT on the network.

I would wonder if USA wants NXT to be a week delay before being put on the network.