{"id":87460,"date":"2019-10-10T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=87460"},"modified":"2019-10-17T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:58:19","slug":"wednesday-night-ratings-battle-week-2-results-aew-and-nxt-viewership-both-down-aew-keeps-massive-lead-in-younger-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/10\/10\/wednesday-night-ratings-battle-week-2-results-aew-and-nxt-viewership-both-down-aew-keeps-massive-lead-in-younger-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Night Ratings Battle Week 2 Results: AEW and NXT viewership both down, AEW keeps massive lead in younger viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2561013260\" 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>Both AEW Dynamite and NXT on USA were down in week two of their Wednesday night head-to-head battle, with Major League Baseball&#8217;s game five between the Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Dodgers might have taken a chunk out of the viewership.<\/p>\n<p>On TNT, AEW was down to 1.018 million from 1.409 million last week. On USA, NXT down to 790,000 from 891,000 last week.<\/p>\n<p>AEW was simulcast on Tru TV in case the baseball came on TBS ran long and the later game got bumped to TNT for a while. As a result viewership is a little skewed.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Counting TNT live, the immediate TNT replay, and the Tru TV simulcast of AEW Dynamite<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u00a0(this counts live and same-night-DVR viewwership) this week&#8217;s Dynamite viewership was 1,503,000 compared to 1,832,000 last week. The Tru simulcast is only happening if there&#8217;s a risk of a cascade of TBS-TNT issues due to the early baseball game running long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We will have a more complete ratings report later, but a couple key demo stats jump out, including AEW continuing to be really strong in younger viewers compared to NXT and even Raw.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The Raw 50+ rating was 1.05. AEW&#8217;s was 0.03. But male 18-34 Raw was 0.69 compared to AEW 0.48. NXT head to head drew a 0.17 in that demo, nearly two-thirds less than AEW.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among men 18-49, AEW drew 0.66 compared to NXT&#8217;s 0.29. Raw drew a 0.96 in that demo.<\/p>\n<p>In the adult 18-49 demo, AEW drew 0.46 compared to NXT&#8217;s 0.22. 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