WWE: WWE Reportedly Holding Several Double Tapings This October, Nine New Events Announced for This December, More on NXT Sept. 24, 2024 Viewership

WWE Reportedly Holding Several Double Tapings This October for RAW & SmackDown Shows

WWE reportedly will be holding two sets of double television tapings for their RAW and SmackDown series this October, according to PWInsider.

Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE officials currently are planning to hold a double set of tapings for RAW on October 7th in St. Louis, Missouri. Johnson reported that the reason is due to WWE will not be holding a new live RAW show October 14th due to the company will be holding their next European tour that week.

Johnson reported that WWE will also be holding a double set of tapings for SmackDown on October 25th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Johnson reported that the reason is due to WWE will not be holding a new live SmackDown show on November 1st due to them traveling to Saudi Arabia that week for this year’s Crown Jewel event.

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WWE Announced Nine New Events for This December

WWE recently announced that they will be holding nine new live events for their 2024 Holiday Tour events schedule for this December.

Official press release:

WWE announces nine live events as part of the annual holiday tour

WWE today announced nine live events including the company’s live holiday tour.

Thursday, Dec. 26
WWE Live Holiday Tour
Vystar Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Jacksonville, FL

Friday, Dec. 27
Friday Night SmackDown
Amalie Arena
Tampa, FL

WWE Live Holiday Tour
PPG Paints Arena
Pittsburgh, PA

Saturday, Dec. 28
WWE Live Holiday Tour
CFG Bank Arena
Baltimore, MD

WWE Live Holiday Tour
Kia Center
Orlando, FL

Sunday, Dec. 29
WWE Live Holiday Tour
Allstate Arena
Chicago, IL

WWE Live Holiday Tour
Kaseya Center
Miami, FL

Monday, Dec. 30
Monday Night Raw
Toyota Center
Houston, TX

WWE Live Holiday Tour
Little Caesars Arena
Detroit, MI

In regards to the lack of the announcement for the annual post-Christmas house show event at Madison Square Garden, PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources within WWE stated that was by design. Those spoken to stated that WWE officials currently have their December 26th house show event at MSG in the books but they are currently focused on their upcoming SmackDown show this October at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and December 14th Saturday Night’s Main Event special at the Nassau Coliseum. Those spoken to reportedly stated that WWE officials will eventually officially announce their return date for MSG show.

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More on NXT Sept. 24, 2024 Viewership

The September 24th episode of WWE NXT saw NXT suffer a large decline in overall viewership, a small decline in key demographic rankings, and a slight decline in key demographic ratings. This week’s show was notable for being the final NXT show on USA Network.

NXT drew 620,000 viewers and a 0.19 key demographic rating on USA Network. NXT’s key demographic ranking for the night was 9th place.

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

Dave Meltzer reported that the main reason for NXT’s declines this week was due to the large declines from their Over 50 key demographic viewership and older key demographic viewership groups, which its percentages were not given. This reportedly offset the large gain from their younger key demographic viewership group, which was up 7.7% compared to last week’s show.

In terms of head-to-head competition, America’s Got Talent season finale drew 5,462,000 viewers on NBC, the 2024 WNBA Playoffs Game 2 of Seattle Storm vs. Las Vegas Aces drew 998,000 viewers on ESPN, the 2024 WNBA Playoffs Game 2 of Atlanta Dream vs. New York Liberty drew 863,000 viewers on ESPN, the MLB game of Baltimore Orioles vs. New York Yankees drew 470,000 viewers on TBS, Deadliest Catch drew 838,000 viewers on Discovery Channel, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta drew 439,000 viewers on MTV, Chopped drew 430,000 viewers on Food Network, and My Big Fat Fabulous Life drew 549,000 viewers on TLC.

In terms of peak viewership, NXT’s peak overall viewership was at 700,000 viewers for the quarter hour featuring the Hank Walker & Tank Ledger vs. The O.C. tag team match. NXT’s peak key demographic viewership was 303,000 viewers for the same quarter hour. NXT’s overrun drew 500,000 overall viewers and 208,000 key demo viewers for the Roxanne Perez, Giulia, & Stephanie Vaquer press conference segment. Meltzer reported that this week’s show had the rare occurrence where the overrun actually lost viewers compared to its eighth quarter. Meltzer reported that NXT’s eighth quarter drew 524,000 overall viewers and 214,000 key demo viewers.

In terms of key demographic viewership, NXT had 252,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that NXT’s male/female viewership skew was 64.1% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, NXT was down 2.5% in overall viewership but up 7.2% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that NXT’s 18-34 key demographic viewership was down 1% compared to the same week last year.