{"id":97772,"date":"2020-05-21T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=97772"},"modified":"2020-05-21T22:21:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T03:21:36","slug":"aew-and-nxt-ratings-update-on-aew-expanding-its-live-viewership-lead-doubling-nxt-in-key-demo-plus-7-day-viewership-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/05\/21\/aew-and-nxt-ratings-update-on-aew-expanding-its-live-viewership-lead-doubling-nxt-in-key-demo-plus-7-day-viewership-update\/","title":{"rendered":"AEW and NXT Ratings: Update on AEW expanding its live viewership lead, doubling NXT in key demo, plus 7-day viewership update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-707083498\" 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, the May 20 episode of AEW Dynamite on TNT drew 701,000 viewers, outdrawing NXT on USA Network which drew 592,000. It was the first 100,000+ lead in live and same-night-DVR viewership since March 18.<\/p>\n<p>AEW had typically outdrawn NXT by more than 100,000 viewers before the empty-arena era began in late march. Since then, AEW has averaged 712,000 viewers since March 25. In 2020, through March 11, AEW averaged 885,000 viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Each show drew a similar cable rating &#8211; 0.52 to 0.51 in favor of AEW.<\/p>\n<p>In the core 18-49 demo, AEW doubled NXT&#8217;s rating. AEW drew a 0.26 rating, landing in position no. 7 among all cable shows on Wednesday night. NXT didn&#8217;t finish in the top 50 in that demo, drawing a 0.13 in that demo.<\/p>\n<p>We also have an update on 7-day viewership for the May 6 episode. AEW ended up wit 936,000 viewers, the highest 7-day viewership total since March 25, when AEW drew more than a million viewers. AEW averaged 1.131 million viewers in 2020 until March 11. Since March 25, AEW has averaged 933,000 viewers. That&#8217;s a loss of 17.5 percent of their viewers. (We exclude the March 18 episode since NXT didn&#8217;t present a show with original first-run matches that day and AEW outdrew NXT by an outlier margin.)<\/p>\n<p>In 7-day viewership, the May 6 episode drew 803,000. That&#8217;s above the NXT average 7-day total viewership since March 25 of 793,000. The average in 2020 through March 11 was 895,000. That&#8217;s a drop of 11.4 percent. Some of NXT viewers aren&#8217;t captured in Neilsen ratings because of WWE Network viewership starting 24 hours after the USA Network airs it live.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/05\/19\/last-nights-5-18-episode-of-wwe-monday-night-raw-on-usa-network-drew-a-1-32-rating-down-from-last-weeks-post-money-in-the-bank-ppv-episode-which-drew-a-six-week-high-rating-of-1-46-the-monthl\/\">WWE Monday Night Raw: Did viewers stick around after last week\u2019s surge to a six-week high after Money in the Bank PPV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1715303958\"><div id=\"pwtor-1308111087\"><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, the May 20 episode of AEW Dynamite on TNT drew 701,000 viewers, outdrawing NXT on USA Network which drew 592,000. It was the first 100,000+ lead in live and same-night-DVR viewership since March <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/05\/21\/aew-and-nxt-ratings-update-on-aew-expanding-its-live-viewership-lead-doubling-nxt-in-key-demo-plus-7-day-viewership-update\/\" title=\"AEW and NXT Ratings: Update on AEW expanding its live viewership lead, doubling NXT in key demo, plus 7-day viewership update\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87461,"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":[6163,2,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_nxt","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/10\/AEWDynamite_TNT_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97772","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=97772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97776,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97772\/revisions\/97776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}