More on AEW Dynamite Week 240 Viewership – May 8, 2024

More on AEW Dynamite Viewership for May 8th

The May 8th episode of AEW Dynamite saw AEW gain a slight increase in overall viewership.

AEW drew 711,000 viewers and a 0.24 key demographic rating on TBS. AEW’s key demographic ranking for that night was 6th place.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the main reasons for AEW’s increases this week was due to the small increase from their overall key demographic viewership group, which was up 3.2% compared to last week’s show. This reportedly offset the very stiff sports competition that night from the 2024 NBA and NHL Playoff games, which were up 41.7% and 35.9% respectively in key demographic viewership compared to last week’s set of playoff games. This reportedly also offset the weak lead-in programming viewership from the Big Bang Theory, which drew 880,000 viewers and a 0.14 rating that night.

In terms of notable head-to-head competition, the 2024 NBA Playoffs Game 2 of Indiana Pacers vs. New York Knicks drew 4,338,000 viewers on TNT and 565,000 viewers on TruTV, the 2024 NHL Playoffs Game 2 of Boston Bruins vs. Florida Panthers drew 1,822,000 viewers on ESPN, the 2024 NHL Playoffs Game 1 of Edmonton Oilers vs. Vancouver Canucks drew 902,000 viewers on ESPN, the MLB game of Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Cincinnati Reds drew 151,000 viewers on FS1, the MLB simulcast games of San Fransisco vs. Colorado and Seattle vs. Minnesota drew 103,000 viewers on MLB Network, Survivor drew 4,685,000 viewers on CBS, My 600-LB Life drew 297,000 viewers on TLC, House Hunters Repack drew 573,000 viewers on Home & Garden TV, and Top Chef drew 516,000 viewers on BRAVO.

In terms of key demographic viewership, AEW had 320,000 viewers.

In terms of the one million viewership milestone, none of AEW’s eight quarters drew one million or more viewers. AEW’s peak quarter hour viewership was at 787,000 viewers for their fifth quarter while their quarter low was at 628,000 viewers for their eighth quarter.

In terms of yearly comparisons, AEW was down 18.9% in overall viewership and down 24.3% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that AEW’s 18-34 viewership was down 45.4% compared to the same week last year.

AEW Dynamite quarter hour viewership breakdowns were:

• 1Q – 768,000 overall viewers and 317,000 key demo viewers (Bulk of the Orange Cassidy vs. Trent Beretta match)
• 2Q – 696,000 overall viewers and 313,000 key demo viewers (Ending of the Cassidy vs. Beretta match & post-match brawl & angle with Don Callis & Kris Statlander, The Elite video promo segment, the Jack Perry video promo segment, and the Kenny Omega announcement video promo segment)
• 3Q – 731,000 overall viewers and 336,000 key demo viewers (Serena Deeb & “Timeless” Toni Storm promo & brawl segment, the Orange Cassidy & Rocky Romero backstage segment, and the bulk of the Mariah May vs. Harley Cameron match)
• 4Q – 724,000 overall viewers and 350,000 key demo viewers (Ending of the May vs. Cameron match & post-match brawl with Saraya & Mina Shirakawa, the PAC & Bullet Club Gold backstage segment, the Malakai Black video promo segment, the Young Bucks video package & promo segment, and the start of the Swerve Strickland promo segment)
• 5Q – 787,000 overall viewers and 363,000 key demo viewers (Bulk of the Swerve Strickland & Christian Cage promo segment and Mogul Embassy attack on Strickland, the Young Bucks, Christian Cage, & The Patriarchy backstage segment, the Willow Nightingale backstage interview segment, and the start of the Jay White vs. Rocky Romero match)
• 6Q – 718,000 overall viewers and 332,000 key demo viewers (Bulk of the White vs. Romero match & post-match brawl with The Gunns & angle with PAC, the Samoa Joe video package segment, and the Chris Jericho & Big Bill vs. Mo Jabari & Harlon Abbot tag team match)
• 7Q – 665,000 overall viewers and 296,000 key demo viewers (Ending of the Jericho & Bill vs. Jabari & Abbot tag team match & post-match promo by Jericho and the first half of the TNT Championship Cope Open No DQ match of Brody King vs. Adam Copeland (c))
• 8Q – 628,000 overall viewers and 266,000 key demo viewers (Latter half of the TNT Championship Cope Open No DQ match & post-match brawl with Kyle O’Reilly and the Mercedes Mone backstage interview segment)
• Overrun – 654,000 overall viewers and 288,000 key demo viewers (Adam Copeland & Kyle O’Reilly backstage interview segment and The Elite & FTR promo segment & brawl with Eddie Kingston & Bryan Danielson)