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

[MVP of West Hollywd]

What you consider good, the casual fan might not. AEW has it's core fanbase, and is struggling to attract anything more

Put it this way. I'm not an MMA fan. My favorite MMA match is when Holly Holm *Danielson voice* kicked Ronda Rousey's f***ing head in. I looked up on google what the best UFC match of 2015 was and the article said a fight between welterweights Robbie Lawler and Rory Macdonald. I don't know who those guys are, but if I watched it at the time, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as the Rousey match. I liked that much because it had a star, a major upset (like -1000 odds) is fun, and I loved the storyline that Rousey's arrogance brought her down thinking she could box with a specialist in that area. My 2nd favorite MMA match is when Lesnar got destroyed by Velasquez.

When AEW does a technically perfect match like Ospraey vs Takeshita it's like Lawler vs Macdonald to some of the wrestling fans. To make me feel like I did after watching Rousey vs Holm you need people that feel like stars, that feel built up enough that when they lose it's surprising, etc. Those are the type of people who can make the person who orders 1 AEW PPV a year interested or catches Dynamite cause they were flipping channels. It's weird because it feels like wrestling is something you're either hardcore about or are a "you know it's fake, right?" thing but I think there are a lot of casual fans. AEW is just not as good at appealing to them. The 30 minute Meltzer jerk off matches just make the already hardcore fans happy and give it good reviews on the internet.

 

[Jussi]

 

[Khelandros]

Half Milly

 

[Unholy Diver]

Half Milly


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That seems so low that there must be some computational error, what was it even up against?

 

[Emperoreddy]

That seems so low that there must be some computational error, what was it even up against?

Was a holiday and the Kendrick Lamar concert was pulling in a lot of eyeballs

Apparently not an error, this is indeed the real ratings and are a record low for Dynamite

 

[Khelandros]

That seems so low that there must be some computational error, what was it even up against?

 

[Unholy Diver]

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Wow, lost to Expedition Unknown, I wonder if they were going after Bigfoot, or the Chupacabra this week. I even watched for like 30 minutes this week, so it wasn't my fault

Was a holiday and the Kendrick Lamar concert was pulling in a lot of eyeballs

Apparently not an error, this is indeed the real ratings and are a record low for Dynamite

the show is getting swallowed up in the vortex of Jericho

 

[MVP of West Hollywd]

NXT with the KO this week... Ouch.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Also no Big Bang Theory lead in this week

 

[yahhockey]

Rough. 26% drop week over week.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Also no Big Bang Theory lead in this week

So a chunk of their viewers are people who tuned in for a sitcom rerun and were too lazy or forgot to change the channel when it ended?

 

[Khelandros]

 

[Emperoreddy]

Mina was in the only quarter that saw an upward bump this week

 

[Jussi]

Was a holiday and the Kendrick Lamar concert was pulling in a lot of eyeballs

Apparently not an error, this is indeed the real ratings and are a record low for Dynamite

 

[Unholy Diver]

Mina was in the only quarter that saw an upward bump this week

and not just in GKJ's shorts

 

[GKJ]

Mina was in the only quarter that saw an upward bump this week

This coming off a good week for Rampage where Toni Storm main evented the show.

They also spent a week promoting MJF vs Rush opening the show with no commercials.

AEW is down YOY 31 weeks in a row, and had no NBA or NHL going against them.

 

[Khelandros]

 

[Jussi]

Last night’s (6/25) episode of WWE Raw averaged 1.814 million viewers, up from 1.747 million last week and 1.609 million the week before.

The last ten weeks have averaged 1.676 million viewers, so this was well above recent viewership numbers. Last year, the same ten week period averaged 1.756 million viewers.

The average through 26 weeks this year is 1.731 million viewers. The average through 26 weeks last year was 1.819 million viewers.

The hourly viewership last night:

1st hour: 1.804 million
2nd hour: 1.936 million
3rd hour: 1.703 million
MOST NOTEWORTHY METRIC…

The most noteworthy metric this week is arguably that the second hour had an atypical spike. The second hour started with Liv Morgan’s in-ring promo inviting Dominik Mysterio to the ring, plus Chad Gable’s first match since being “massacred” by The Wyatt Sicks last week.

The first-to-third hour drop-off was lower than usual, perhaps due to the hook of the Wyatt Sicks VHS tape being played late in the show.

KEY 18-49 DEMO INFO

In the key 18-49 demo, it drew a 0.61 rating, up from 0.55 last week and 0.50 the week before. The last ten weeks have averaged a 0.54 rating. The same ten-week period last year averaged 0.55. Two years ago, the same ten-week period averaged 0.46.

The average demo rating this year through 26 weeks is 0.57. That’s up from the 0.55 average through 26 weeks last year and 0.47 through 26 weeks two years ago.

WWE Raw Ratings Report (6/24): The most noteworthy stat about Raw’s viewership last night, Wyatt Sicks influence, comparisons to last two years

www.pwtorch.com

 

[Emperoreddy]

WWE has somehow figured out how to get a younger audience to start watching their shows.

All three shows up YOY in the demo.

 

[Jussi]

WWE has somehow figured out how to get a younger audience to start watching their shows.

All three shows up YOY in the demo.

 

[Emperoreddy]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806072912115552693

Entertaining soap opera segments draw

 

[Unholy Diver]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806072912115552693

Entertaining soap opera segments draw

even up against SCF game 7 no less

 

[Khelandros]

 

[Jussi]

AEW Dynamite ratings instantly recover with Big Bang Theory back as its lead-in

It looks like AEW’s record low results from the Juneteenth holiday were an outlier.

www.cagesideseats.com

 

[Emperoreddy]

Both midweek shows had a rough go of it this week.