More on AEW vs. NXT Week 29 & 30 Viewership

AEW vs. NXT Week 29 Viewership Update

As noted before, the April 15th episodes of AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT resulted in Dynamite generating around 683,000 viewers on TNT and a #29 ranking in the 18-49 demographic while NXT generated around 692,000 viewers on USA Network and a #58 ranking in 18-49 demographic.

This week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter provided an update that featured the quarter-hour breakdowns and other details that were not available in last week’s issue.

Dave Meltzer reported that AEW won every quarter-hour in terms of the 18-49 demographic group while NXT won five out of eight quarters in terms of overall viewership. Meltzer also reported that AEW’s main event of Jake Hager vs. Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship started off strong but lost a sizeable amount of viewers in the final quarter-hour of Dynamite. It was also reported that in terms of peak viewership, NXT peaked during the first quarter at 730,000 viewers while AEW peaked in the sixth quarter at 729,000 viewers.

AEW Dynamite started off with around 703,000 viewers and their biggest gain of the night was the latter half of the Kip Sabian vs. Chuck Taylor match which gained 54,000 viewers. AEW’s biggest decline of the night was the ending of the Lance Archer vs. Colt Cabana match, Britt Baker vignette, Moxley vs. Hager hype video, and Baker vs. Cassandra Golden match which lost 65,000 viewers.

NXT started off with around 730,000 viewers and their biggest gain of the night was the latter half of the NXT Tag Team Championship match of Undisputed Era vs. Matt Riddle & Timothy Thatcher which gained 41,000 viewers. NXT’s biggest decline of the night was the ending of Finn Balor vs. Fabian Aichner match, Velveteen Dream promo segment, and Charlotte Flair video package which lost 30,000 viewers.

More on AEW vs. NXT Week 30 Viewership

The April 22nd episodes of AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT saw AEW end NXT’s two-week reign on top in terms of overall viewership and AEW continuing their advantage over NXT in the key demographic ranking.

AEW Dynamite drew 731,000 viewers on TNT and a #24 ranking in 18-49 demographic while NXT drew 665,000 viewers on USA Network and a #50 ranking in 18-49 demographic.

The results of the quarter-hour segment breakdowns were not revealed in this week’s issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter but Dave Meltzer reported that both shows were up in the 18-49 demographic group with AEW having 325,000 viewers and NXT having 234,000 viewers. Meltzer also reported that AEW held the advantage with the Males 18-34 group at 49,000 viewers compared to 27,000 viewers for NXT while NXT held the advantage with the Females 18-34 group at 41,000 viewers compared to 40,000 viewers for AEW.

AEW’s biggest increase was with the teenager group at 9.1% while their biggest decrease was with the 18-34 group at 13.3% lower than last week’s show. While this was the first time in weeks that NXT had detailed demographic breakdowns, direct comparisons with last week’s show was not available but NXT reportedly saw a huge decline with the Males 12-34 group for viewership this week.

Canadian Viewership for AEW’s April 15th & 22nd Shows, NXT’s April 17th Show

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that AEW Dynamite drew 41,700 viewers for their April 15th show and 119,800 viewers for their April 22nd show on TSN in Canada. Meltzer reported that one reason why AEW Dynamite’s numbers have declined in recent weeks is due to TSN moving the show from TSN 4 to TSN 2 without ever making an official announcement of the show changing channels.

WWE NXT drew 48,100 viewers for their April 17th show on Sportsnet 360 in Canada.