{"id":155899,"date":"2023-03-24T17:59:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T22:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=155899"},"modified":"2023-03-24T18:02:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:02:42","slug":"aew-dynamite-ratings-report-dynamite-viewership-rises-sharply-to-highest-in-march-but-what-march-demographic-is-most-sharply-down-from-a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/03\/24\/aew-dynamite-ratings-report-dynamite-viewership-rises-sharply-to-highest-in-march-but-what-march-demographic-is-most-sharply-down-from-a-year-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"AEW Dynamite Ratings Report: Viewership rises sharply to highest in March, but what March demographic is most sharply down from a year ago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1219459124\" 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>This week&#8217;s episode of AEW Dynamite (3\/22) drew an average of 954,000 viewers, a sharp increase over the previous three episodes which averaged 848,000 viewers. AEW built the show around an Adam Cole in-ring promo and Kenny Omega vs. Vikingo in what was billed as a &#8220;dream match&#8221; that was delayed due to the pandemic and Omega&#8217;s injury hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>The overall cable rating (the percentage of homes with cable including streaming services that watched Dynamite) was 0.65, in line with the previous weeks&#8217; ratings of 0.64, 0.63, and 0.64.<\/p>\n<p>AEW experienced the most growth in the male 18-34 demographer, going from 0.38 last week (and a prior three-week average of 0.40) to 0.46 this week. In the key 18-49 demographic, it drew from 0.27 to 0.33.<\/p>\n<p>Dynamite finished no. 4 in the 18-49 demo among all cable shows on Wednesday night, behind two NBA games on ESPN and &#8220;Vanderpump Rules&#8221; on Bravo. The top NBA game doubled Dynamite&#8217;s demo rating with a 0.66.<\/p>\n<p>The first four weeks of March last year averaged 988,000 viewers, compared to 874,000 average in the same three weeks this year.<\/p>\n<p>In the 18-49 demo, the first four weeks of March last year averaged 0.39 compared to 0.29 this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-49 male demo in the first four weeks of March last year was 0.52 compared to 0.41 this year over the same four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In the 18-34 male demo, viewership in the first four weeks of March last year was 0.29 compared to 0.27 this year.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1000931483\" 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 overall cable rating through four weeks of March this year is 0.64 compared to 0.67 last year.<\/p>\n<p>So not only does viewership remain lower than last year, but also a smaller percentage of homes that still have access to TBS is also down in the key demographics. It appears, with a relatively even male 18-34, demo, the biggest drop in AEW viewership year over year comes from that 35-49 demographic slice (perhaps not coincidentally, the demo most likely to have been watching because of the return of C.M. Punk who was on AEW TV a year ago this month).<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1206940585\"><div id=\"pwtor-1161714915\"><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>This week&#8217;s episode of AEW Dynamite (3\/22) drew an average of 954,000 viewers, a sharp increase over the previous three episodes which averaged 848,000 viewers. AEW built the show around an Adam Cole in-ring promo <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/03\/24\/aew-dynamite-ratings-report-dynamite-viewership-rises-sharply-to-highest-in-march-but-what-march-demographic-is-most-sharply-down-from-a-year-ago\/\" title=\"AEW Dynamite Ratings Report: Viewership rises sharply to highest in March, but what March demographic is most sharply down from a year ago?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155900,"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":[6163,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-24-at-5.57.21-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155899","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155902,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155899\/revisions\/155902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}