{"id":2487,"date":"2015-11-05T15:51:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T21:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2015-11-05T15:53:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T21:53:44","slug":"114-wed-night-viewers-both-shows-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/11\/05\/114-wed-night-viewers-both-shows-down\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/4 Wed. Viewership &#8211; TNA &#038; ROH down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3384440934\" 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>Wednesday night on Destination America,\u00a0ROH came back to earth after drawing by far its biggest one-hour audience last week. Also, TNA Impact&#8217;s combined audience was down from last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday Night ROH\/TNA Programming &#8211;\u00a0November 4\u00a0(Week 23)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>TNA Impact:<\/strong> The first airing at 9:00 p.m. EST drew 262,000 viewers, essentially even with 266k and 264k the previous two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>TNA&#8217;s late-night replay\/West Coast airing after ROH then drew 81,000 viewers, down from 98,000 viewers last week, mainly due to a weaker ROH lead-in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TNA Impact&#8217;s total viewership was 343,000 viewers,\u00a0<\/strong>down from\u00a0364k last week, but up from 327k two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>ROH TV<\/strong>: The only airing at 11:00 p.m. EST drew 141,000 viewers, down from an eye-popping 227,000 viewers last week.<\/p>\n<p>Since losing prime time on July 29, ROH has averaged 151,933 viewers in the late night timeslot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>Demographics<\/strong>: Both shows skewed to an older audience, but there was improvement in the diversity of the audience.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3212789172\" 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>ROH&#8217;s median age was 52.8 years-old and TNA&#8217;s was 55.7 years-old, the oldest\u00a0since August 26.<\/p>\n<p>However, Impact&#8217;s split was 65 percent males 18-49 and 35 percent females 18-49. 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