{"id":95184,"date":"2020-03-26T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=95184"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T21:12:08","slug":"nxt-closes-gap-with-aew-in-viewership-with-a-return-to-in-ring-action-and-triple-h-advertised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/03\/26\/nxt-closes-gap-with-aew-in-viewership-with-a-return-to-in-ring-action-and-triple-h-advertised\/","title":{"rendered":"NXT closes gap with AEW in viewership with a return to in-ring action and Triple H advertised"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4107007368\" 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>Last night&#8217;s NXT on USA program drew 669,000 viewers, up from 542,000 last week. Meanwhile, AEW Dynamite on TNT drew 819,000, down from 932,000 last week. NXT returned to a format with in-ring matches, plus advertised Triple H appearing. AEW built its advertising primarily around a Chris Jericho-Matt Hardy face-to-face. The gap between the two shows was merely 150,000 after the AEW lead expanded to 390,000 last week.<\/p>\n<p>The top 14 shows on cable on Wednesday night in the 18-49 target demo were all news programs. AEW finished no. 23. NXT didn&#8217;t make the top 50.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/03\/25\/3-25-nxt-on-usa-report-wellss-report-on-taped-show-featuring-riddle-vs-strong-xia-li-vs-aliyah-lerae-vs-carter\/\">3\/25 NXT ON USA REPORT: Wells\u2019s report on taped show featuring Riddle vs. Strong, Xia Li vs. Aliyah, LeRae vs. Carter<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-902842827\"><div id=\"pwtor-3084962320\"><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>Last night&#8217;s NXT on USA program drew 669,000 viewers, up from 542,000 last week. Meanwhile, AEW Dynamite on TNT drew 819,000, down from 932,000 last week. NXT returned to a format with in-ring matches, plus <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/03\/26\/nxt-closes-gap-with-aew-in-viewership-with-a-return-to-in-ring-action-and-triple-h-advertised\/\" title=\"NXT closes gap with AEW in viewership with a return to in-ring action and Triple H advertised\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15962,"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":[2,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_nxt","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/04\/NXTLiveLogo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95184","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=95184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95185,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95184\/revisions\/95185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}