{"id":14130,"date":"2016-03-24T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T20:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=14130"},"modified":"2016-07-11T13:08:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T18:08:32","slug":"323-lucha-underground-viewers-audience-surges-48-percent-rey-aztec-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/03\/24\/323-lucha-underground-viewers-audience-surges-48-percent-rey-aztec-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/23 Lucha Underground viewers &#8211; audience surges 48 percent for Rey &#038; Aztec Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2180518372\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>The combination of Rey Mysterio&#8217;s in-ring Lucha Underground debut and the show-long &#8220;Aztec Warfare&#8221; match appear to have led to a 48 percent increase in total viewership for this week&#8217;s LU episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucha Underground Viewership Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 23:\u00a0<\/strong>Week 9 drew a total audience of 232,000 viewers, up 48 percent from last week&#8217;s audience of 157,000 viewers. It was the most viewers of Season 2.<\/p>\n<p>The first-run airing drew 163,000 viewers, up from 100k last week and the most this season.<\/p>\n<p>The replay then drew 69,000 viewers, up from 57k last week. It was the most replay viewers since February 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; DEMOGRAPHICS: Lucha drew a median age of 46.0-years-old, the second-youngest audience of the season.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, LU doubled their adults 18-49 audience from 40k last week to 80k this week.<\/p>\n<p>The a18-49 audience of 80,000 was just short of the season high of 81k in February.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-763861583\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The adults demographic split 81 percent males 18-49 and 19 percent females 18-49.<\/p>\n<p>LU drew the most m18-49 viewers of the season and the most f18-49 viewers since February.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1531158742\"><div id=\"pwtor-1383691101\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The combination of Rey Mysterio&#8217;s in-ring Lucha Underground debut and the show-long &#8220;Aztec Warfare&#8221; match appear to have led to a 48 percent increase in total viewership for this week&#8217;s LU episode. Lucha Underground Viewership <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/03\/24\/323-lucha-underground-viewers-audience-surges-48-percent-rey-aztec-warfare\/\" title=\"3\/23 Lucha Underground viewers &#8211; audience surges 48 percent for Rey &#038; Aztec Warfare\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3380],"tags":[902,717,582],"class_list":["post-14130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lucha-news","tag-el-rey-network","tag-lucha-underground","tag-rey-mysterio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/MysterioLucha_3x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14134,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions\/14134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}