More on AEW Dynamite Week 274 – Jan. 1, 2025 Viewership, Collision Week 75 – Jan. 4, Rampage Week 175 – Dec. 27, 2024

Jan 11, 2025

More on AEW Dynamite Viewership for January 1, 2025

The January 1, 2025 episode of AEW Dynamite saw AEW gain a small increase in overall viewership but suffered a slight decline in key demographic ratings. That week’s show was notable for being the Dynamite Fight for the Fallen 2025 show and also for being the Dynamite simulcast premiere show on MAX.

AEW drew 588,000 viewers and a 0.16 key demographic rating on TBS. AEW’s key demographic ranking for that night is currently not known.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the main reasons for AEW’s mixed results was due to the small gains from their Over 50 key demographic viewership group, which its percentage was not given. This reportedly mostly offset the combination of the New Year’s Day holiday, the stiff sports competition from the 2024 College Football Playoffs, and the small decline from their overall key demographic viewership group, which was down 11.2% compared to the prior week’s show. Meltzer reported that AEW had a much lower than usual lead-in programming viewership due to the Big Bang Theory not airing an episode that week and instead had the airing of the Dr. Strange film, which only drew a 0.09 key demo rating. Meltzer also reported that the much lower than usual lead-in program resulted in AEW’s first quarter viewership also being much lower than usual.

In terms of head-to-head competition, the College Football Bowl Studio drew 6,523,000 viewers on ESPN and 583,000 viewers on ESPN2, the 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction drew 4,601,000 viewers on ABC, The Challenge drew 415,000 viewers on MTV, Expedition Files drew 1,048,000 viewers on Discovery Channel, Sistas Series drew 759,000 viewers on BET, and My 600-LB Life drew 484,000 viewers on TLC.

In terms of key demographic viewership, AEW had 214,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that AEW’s males/female viewership split was 65.6% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, AEW was down 26.6% in overall viewership and down 36.5% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that one main reason for the large declines was due to last year’s show competition was much weaker overall and the unknown status of the viewership on MAX for this week’s show.

AEW Dynamite quarter hour viewership breakdowns were:

1Q – 595,000 overall viewers and 216,000 key demo viewers (Death Riders promo video segment, the Rated FTR backstage promo segment, and the bulk of the Orange Cassidy vs. Hangman Adam Page match)
2Q – 614,000 overall viewers and 236,000 key demo viewers (Ending of the Cassidy vs. Page match & post-match brawl with Christopher Daniels, the Jay White backstage promo segment, and The Acclaimed vs. Hurt Syndicate tag team match)
3Q – 598,000 overall viewers and 219,000 key demo viewers (Swerve Strickland & Prince Nana backstage interview segment and the bulk of the Jamie Hayter vs. Julia Hart match)
4Q – 592,000 overall viewers and 217,000 key demo viewers (Ending of the Hayter vs. Hart match, the Kyle Fletcher & Will Ospreay video segment, the Kenny Omega video segment, the Kazuchika Okada promo video segment, and the Mercedes Mone promo segment)
5Q – 588,000 overall viewers and 201,000 key demo viewers (Undisputed Kingdom backstage interview segment and the Three-way match of Roderick Strong vs. Jay White vs. Swerve Strickland)
6Q – 584,000 overall viewers and 217,000 key demo viewers (Post-match Ricochet’s attack on Strickland & stuff with Undisputed Kingdom, Jeff Jarrett & Pals backstage promo segment, the Mariah May backstage promo segment, and the Jarrett in-ring promo segment)
7Q – 560,000 overall viewers and 212,000 key demo viewers (HOOK promo video segment, the 2-on-1 Handicap match of Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Jon Cruz & Rob Killjoy, the Learning Tree & Rated FTR backstage segment, and the MJF promo video segment)
8Q – 586,000 overall viewers and 206,000 key demo viewers (Bulk of the Death Riders vs. Rated FTR Trios match)
Overrun – 568,000 overall viewers and 196,000 key demo viewers (Ending of the Death Riders vs. Rated FTR Trios match)

More on AEW Collision Viewership for January 4th

The January 4th episode of AEW Collision saw AEW gain a large increase in key demographic rankings but suffered a very large decline in overall viewership and a large decline in key demographic ratings. That week’s show was notable for being Collision’s simulcast premiere show on MAX and also for returning after its one week break due to AEW holding their Worlds End 2024 event on December 28th.

AEW drew 345,000 viewers and a 0.09 key demographic rating on TNT. AEW’s key demographic ranking for that night was #3 place.

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

Dave Meltzer reported that the main reason for AEW’s declines that week was due to them not having a College football lead-in compared two week’s ago show. Meltzer reported that when compared to their three week’s ago show that had their usual lead-in programming numbers, AEW’s show was up 40.2% in overall viewership and up 2.4% in key demographic viewership.

In terms of notable head-to-head competition, the NFL football game of Cincinnati Bengals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers drew 13,810,000 viewers on ABC and 8,161,000 viewers on ESPN, the NBA game of New York Knicks vs. Chicago Bulls drew 161,000 viewers on NBA TV, the College basketball game of Michigan vs. USC drew 540,000 viewers on FOX, My 600-Lb. Life Super Sized drew 183,000 viewers on TLC.

In terms of key demographic viewership, AEW had 120,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that AEW’s males/female viewership split was 66.7% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, AEW was down 14.4% in overall viewership and down 31% in key demographic viewership.

More on AEW Rampage Viewership for December 27, 2024

The December 27th episode of AEW Rampage saw AEW gain a large increase in overall viewership and a slight increase in key demographic rankings. That week’s show was notable for being the Rampage New Year’s Smash 2024 special and for being the series finale show.

AEW drew 273,000 viewers and a 0.08 key demographic rating on TNT. AEW’s key demographic ranking for that night is currently unknown.

Detailed key demographic viewership breakdowns were not available in last week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter and this week’s issue did not contain any updated information.

Dave Meltzer reported in last week’s issue that the main reason for AEW’s increases that week was due to the large increase from their key demographic viewership group, which was up 42.7% compared to the prior week’s show. Another reason reportedly was due to the large gains from their female key demographic viewership group, which its percentage was not given.

In terms of notable head-to-head competition, the 2024 DirectTV Holiday Bowl College football game of Syracuse vs. Washington State drew 2,931,000 viewers on FOX, the 2024 Liberty Bowl College football game of Texas Tech vs. Arkansas drew 4,206,000 viewers on ESPN, Mysteries Unearthed drew 538,000 viewers on History Channel, and Cold Case Files: Bayou drew 296,000 viewers on A&E.

In terms of key demographic viewership, AEW had 107,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that AEW’s males/female viewership split was 58.8% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, AEW was down 16.3% in overall viewership and down 28.7% in key demographic viewership.