More on AEW Dynamite Week 287 – April 2, 2025 Viewership, Collision Week 87 – March 29

Apr 5, 2025

More on AEW Dynamite Viewership for April 2nd

The April 2nd episode of AEW Dynamite saw AEW suffered a large decline in overall viewership and a slight decline in key demographic ratings.

AEW drew 594,000 viewers and a 0.16 key demographic rating on TBS. AEW’s key demographic ranking for that night was #10 place.

Key demographic ratings breakdowns were not available in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter issue. Dave Meltzer reported that the reason was due to a glitch at Nielsen causing the cable ratings numbers release for that day to be delayed until Friday, April 4th and after the publication for this week’s issue.

Dave Meltzer reported in a special edition for next week’s issue that the main reasons for AEW’s declines this week was due to a combination of cable television viewership in general was mostly down that day, the lower than usual lead-in viewership, the large decline from their Over 50 demographic viewership group which its percentage was not given, and their key demographic viewership being down 7.3% compared to last week’s show. Of AEW’s key demographic viewership decrease, their younger male key demographic viewership group was down 20.8% compared to last week’s show. This reportedly offset the increase from their younger female key demographic viewership group, which was up 12.5% compared to last week’s show. Meltzer reported that the viewership on MAX for the show is currently not known. AEW’s lead-in programming Big Bang Theory reportedly drew 775,000 viewers and a 0.11 rating.

In terms of head-to-head competition, the NBA game of Detroit Pistons vs. Oklahoma City Thunder drew 1,069,000 viewers on ESPN and the NBA game of New York Knicks vs. Cleveland Cavaliers drew 1,030,000 viewers on ESPN.

In terms of key demographic viewership, AEW had 215,000 viewers. AEW’s Males 18-34 had 38,000 viewers (down 20.8%), Females 18-34 had 27,000 viewers (up 12.5%), Males 35-49 had 117,000 viewers (down 3.3%), and Females 35-49 had 33,000 viewers (down 13.2%). Meltzer reported that AEW’s males/female viewership split was 72.1% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, AEW was down 21% in overall viewership and down 30.4% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that AEW’s 18-34 key demographic viewership was down 28.6% compared to the same week last year. Meltzer also reported that one main reason for the large declines is due to the unknown key demographic viewership migration on MAX compared to last year’s show.

AEW Dynamite quarter hour viewership breakdowns were:

1Q – 768,000 overall viewers and 293,000 key demo viewers (Bulk of the Mixed Tornado Tag Team match of Death Riders vs. Swerve Strickland & Willow Nightingale)
2Q – 626,000 overall viewers and 224,000 key demo viewers (Ending of the Mixed Tornado Tag Team match of Death Riders vs. Strickland & Nightingale & post-match attack by Moxley to Nightingale, the FTR backstage video segment, and the 2025 Men’s & Women’s Owen Hart Foundation tournament brackets segment)
3Q – 597,000 overall viewers and 205,000 key demo viewers (“Timeless” Toni Storm vs. Penelope Ford match & post-match stuff with Megan Bayne and the Nightingale & Strickland backstage segment)
4Q – 571,000 overall viewers and 208,000 key demo viewers (the Hurt Syndicate & MJF promo segment, the Learning Tree vs. enhancement talent tag team match & post-match promo by Big Bill, and the Mercedes Mone & Harley Cameron backstage interview segment)
5Q – 566,000 overall viewers and 205,000 key demo viewers (Bulk of the Will Ospreay & Kevin Knight vs. “Vanilla Baby” Blake Christian & Lee Johnson tag team match)
6Q – 542,000 overall viewers and 195,000 key demo viewers (Ending of the Ospreay & Knight vs. Christian & Johnson tag team match & post-match stuff with Tony Schiavone, the Opps backstage promo segment, and the start of the Lance Archer vs. Brody King match)
7Q – 613,000 overall viewers and 203,000 key demo viewers (Bulk of the Archer vs. King match and the start of the Cope vs. Claudio Castagnoli match)
8Q – 519,000 overall viewers and 197,000 key demo viewers (Bulk of the Cope vs. Castagnoli match and the Swerve Strickland backstage interview segment)
Overrun – 461,000 overall viewers and 189,000 key demo viewers (The Strickland & Hangman Adam Page backstage segment and the Strickland & Death Riders brawl segment)

More on AEW Collision Viewership for March 29th

The March 29th episode of AEW Collision saw AEW suffer a very large decline in overall viewership and a large decline in key demographic ratings and key demographic rankings. That week’s show was notable for Collision returning to its normal timeslot following the prior week’s show being split up into two one-hour Slam Dunk specials that weekend and for being preempted to a later than usual start time due to TNT’s commitments with the 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

AEW drew 339,000 viewers and a 0.09 key demographic rating on TNT. AEW’s key demographic ranking for that night was outside the Top 25.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the main reason for AEW’s decreases that week was due to a combination of the lack of the larger than usual lead-in programming viewership from the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament and the large declines from their overall key demographic viewership group, which was down 55% compared to the prior week’s show. Meltzer reported that the viewership on MAX for the show is currently not known.

In terms of notable head-to-head competition, the 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament game of Alabama vs. Duke drew 6,775,000 viewers on TBS and 2,992,000 viewers on truTV, the 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament game of Texas Tech vs. Florida drew 5,339,000 viewers on TBS and 2,197,000 viewers on truTV, the 2025 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament game of Kansas State vs. UConn drew 1,648,000 viewers on ESPN, the NHL game of Boston Bruins vs. Detroit Red Wings drew 826,000 viewers on ABC, the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships drew 1,809,000 viewers on NBC, the MLB simulcast games of New York Mets vs. Houston and Atlanta Braves vs. San Diego drew 966,000 viewers on FOX, the UFC Fight Night drew 601,000 viewers on ESPN2, and On Patrol Live drew 554,000 viewers on REELZ Channel.

In terms of key demographic viewership, AEW had 120,000 viewers. AEW’s Males 18-34 had 12,000 viewers, Females 18-34 had 18,000 viewers, Males 35-49 had 71,000 viewers, and Females 35-49 had 19,000 viewers. Meltzer reported that AEW’s males/female viewership split was 69.2% in favor of males.

In terms of yearly comparisons, AEW was down 2.9% in overall viewership and down 19.5% in key demographic viewership. Meltzer reported that AEW’s 18-34 key demographic viewership was down 47.5% compared to the same week last year. Meltzer also reported that one main reason for the declines is due to the unknown key demographic viewership migration on MAX compared to last year’s show.

AEW Collision quarter hour viewership breakdowns were:

1Q – 341,000 overall viewers and 145,000 key demo viewers (“Timeless” Toni Storm promo segment & brawl with Penelope Ford & Megan Bayne, the Death Riders backstage promo segment, and the start of the Jay White vs. Kevin Knight match)
2Q – 315,000 overall viewers and 120,000 key demo viewers (Bulk of the White vs. Knight match & post-match promo by White and the MJF video segment)
3Q – 380,000 overall viewers and 108,000 key demo viewers (Athena video segment, the Mercedes Mone vs. Robyn Renegade match & post-match promo by Mone & brawl with Athena & Renegade, the Queen Aminata & Serena Deeb backstage segment, and the start of the Learning Tree vs. Top Flight tag team match)
4Q – 354,000 overall viewers and 110,000 key demo viewers (Bulk of the Learning Tree vs. Top Flight match & post-match brawl with AR Fox, The Cru, & Nick Wayne, the Adam Cole & Daniel Garcia video segment, and the Jamie Hayter backstage interview segment)
5Q – 378,000 overall viewers and 133,000 key demo viewers (Adam Cole & Daniel Garcia promo segment, the Athena & Billie Starkz backstage promo segment, and the start of the Dax Harwood vs. Wheeler Yuta match)
6Q – 312,000 overall viewers and 123,000 key demo viewers (Bulk of the Harwood vs. Yuta match & post-match stuff with FTR
7Q – 313,000 overall viewers and 109,000 key demo viewers (The Patriarchy backstage interview segment with The Cru, the Hologram vs. “Vanilla Baby” Blake Christian match, and the Thunder Rosa & Kris Statlander backstage interview segment)
8Q – 310,000 overall viewers and 105,000 key demo viewers (Jamie Hayter vs. Billie Starkz match)