More on AEW & NXT Week 147 Viewership – Aug. 2 & 3, 2022, AEW Rampage Week 51

Aug 6, 2022

More on WWE NXT Viewership for August 2nd

The August 2nd episode of WWE NXT saw NXT gain a large increase in overall viewership and key demographic rankings and slight increase in key demographic ratings.

NXT drew 649,000 viewers and a 0.15 key demographic rating on USA Network. NXT’s key demographic ranking for that night was 7th place.

Detailed viewership and key demographic breakdowns were not available in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported that the main reason for NXT’s increases this week was due to the large gains from their older key demographic viewership group, which was up 33.3% compared to last week’s show. Another reason for NXT’s increase reportedly was due to the gains from their Over 50 viewership group, which was up 6.1% compared to last week’s show. This reportedly offset the large decline from their younger key demographic viewership group, which was down 25% compared to last week’s show.

In terms of head-to-head competition, the MLB game of Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants drew 446,000 viewers on TBS, the MLB simulcast games of New York Mets vs. Washington and Toronto vs. Tampa Bay drew 280,000 viewers on MLB Network, Below Deck Down Under drew 659,000 viewers on Bravo, and Deadliest Catch drew 761,000 viewers on Discovery Channel.

In terms of key demographic viewership, NXT had 202,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that the male/female viewership split was 143,000 male viewers and 59,000 female viewers.

In terms of yearly comparisons, NXT was up 22.2% in overall viewership and up 28.3% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that the main reason for the large increases was due to last year’s show aired on Syfy due USA Network’s Summer Olympic Games 2022 coverage.

More on AEW Dynamite Viewership for August 3rd

The August 3rd episode of AEW Dynamite saw AEW gain a slight increase in key demographic rankings but also suffered a large decrease in overall viewership and a slight decrease in key demographic ratings.

AEW drew 938,000 viewers and a 0.32 key demographic rating on TBS. AEW’s key demographic ranking for that night was 1st place.

Detailed viewership and key demographic breakdowns were not available in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Dave Meltzer reported that the main reason was due to an issue at Nielsen that caused a delay in the release of their ratings report and demo and quarter-hour breakdowns for that night’s television shows.

Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the main reason for AEW’s declines this week was due to the large declines from their older key demographic and Over 50 viewership groups, which were down 11.6% and 9.8% respectively compared to last week’s show. This reportedly offset the large gains from their Teenagers and younger key demographic viewership groups, which were up 65% and 13% respectively compared to last week’s show. Meltzer also reported that another reason for AEW’s decline was due to the general decline from their lead-in programming viewership, which reportedly had been generating on average 0.32 to 0.30 ratings per show early into the year to now averaging around 0.18 per show in recent weeks.

In terms of head-to-head competition, the MLB simulcast games of Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Fransisco and Colorado vs. San Diego drew 254,000 viewers on MLB Network, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills drew 1,184,000 viewers on Bravo, and Real Housewives of Dubai drew 643,000 viewers on Bravo.

In terms of key demographic viewership, AEW had 424,000 viewers.

In terms of yearly comparisons, AEW was down 14.9% in overall viewership and down 28.5% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that AEW’s 18-34 key demographic viewership was up 0.5% compared to last year’s show.

While full quarter hour breakdowns were not known as of the time of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter’s report, Meltzer reported in Friday’s Daily Update that AEW’s peak for overall viewership took place during their first quarter. AEW’s peak for overall key demographic viewership reportedly took place during the Jay Lethal and Wardlow angle and The Undisputed Elite’s promo & Young Bucks ambush attack segment. Meltzer reported that the Dumpster match between The Gunn Club and The Acclaimed drew the peak viewership for several of AEW’s key demographic viewership groups.

More on AEW Rampage Viewership for July 29th

The July 29th episode of AEW Rampage saw AEW suffer large declines in overall viewership, key demographic ratings, and key demographic viewership.

AEW Rampage drew 375,000 viewers and a 0.11 key demographic rating on TNT. AEW’s key demographic ranking for that week’s show was 23rd place.

Detailed viewership and key demographic breakdowns were not available in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the main reason for AEW’s declines that week was due to the large declines from their Teenagers and younger key demographic viewership groups, which were down 25% and 50% respectively compared to the prior week’s show. Another reason reportedly was due to the large decline from their male key demographic viewership group, which was down 39.1% compared to the prior week’s show. This reportedly offset the large gain from their Over 50 viewership group, which was up 11.8% compared to the prior week’s show. Meltzer reported that week’s Rampage show managed to generate the second lowest ever overall viewership and lowest ever key demographic viewership for a Rampage show in Rampage history.

In terms of head-to-head competition, the MLB simulcast games of Minnesota vs. San Diego and Texas vs. Los Angeles Angels drew 171,000 viewers on MLB Network and 90 Day Fiance First Look drew 733,000 viewers on TLC.

In terms of key demographic viewership, AEW had 140,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that AEW’s Males 18-34 was 11,000 viewers, Females 18-34 was 18,000 viewers, Males 35-49 was 76,000 viewers, and Females 35-49 was 35,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that due to the very large decline in male viewers, AEW’s male/female viewership split was 62.1% in favor of males which was one of the lowest ever splits in AEW history.

Meltzer reported that week’s Rampage show did not rank in the Top 10 youngest skewing sports show for the week while that week’s Dynamite was was the third youngest skewing sports show, only behind one basketball game and one MLS game.