{"id":99253,"date":"2020-06-18T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=99253"},"modified":"2020-06-18T16:19:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:19:19","slug":"wednesday-ratings-both-shows-up-nxt-nearly-in-line-with-pre-pandemic-average-aew-finishes-in-top-ten-in-key-demo-more-key-metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/06\/18\/wednesday-ratings-both-shows-up-nxt-nearly-in-line-with-pre-pandemic-average-aew-finishes-in-top-ten-in-key-demo-more-key-metrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Ratings: Both shows up, NXT nearly in line with pre-pandemic average, AEW finishes in top ten in key demo, more key metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-954582067\" 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>AEW Dynamite and NXT on USA were both up last night, and NXT actually drew a viewership 43,000 higher than their Jan. 1 to March 18 pre-COVID-90 fan-free era. NXT drew 746,000 viewers, up from 673,000 last week, perhaps buoyed by the Sasha Banks &amp; Bayley tag team title defense.<\/p>\n<p>AEW Dynamite drew 772,000 viewers, up 45,o00 from last week and the second-best viewership since March 25.<\/p>\n<p>AEW&#8217;s pre-pandemic era viewership average this year was 889,000. Since then, the average viewership has averaged 724,000, a drop of 18.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>NXT&#8217;s pre-pandemic era viewership was 704,000. Since then, the average is 668,000, a drop of just 5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In the 18-49 demo, targeted by advertisers, AEW drew a 0.28 rating, good for a no. 8 overall finish among all cable shows on Wednesday night. NXT in the same demo drew a solid 0.20, finishing at no. 25 among all cable shows.<\/p>\n<p>AEW continued its commanding lead among the younger adult male demo, drawing a 0.17, nearly double NXT&#8217;s 0.09.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH UP&#8230;<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/06\/05\/aew-and-nxt-in-virtual-tie-splitting-viewership-and-ratings-victories-plus-last-weeks-aew-tops-1-million-for-episode-with-tyson-after-three-more-days-of-viewers\/\">AEW and NXT in virtual tie, splitting viewership and ratings victories, plus last week\u2019s AEW tops 1 million for episode with Tyson after three more days of viewers<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2259258404\"><div id=\"pwtor-3235151927\"><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>AEW Dynamite and NXT on USA were both up last night, and NXT actually drew a viewership 43,000 higher than their Jan. 1 to March 18 pre-COVID-90 fan-free era. NXT drew 746,000 viewers, up from <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/06\/18\/wednesday-ratings-both-shows-up-nxt-nearly-in-line-with-pre-pandemic-average-aew-finishes-in-top-ten-in-key-demo-more-key-metrics\/\" title=\"Wednesday Ratings: Both shows up, NXT nearly in line with pre-pandemic average, AEW finishes in top ten in key demo, more key metrics\">[&#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-99253","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\/99253","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=99253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99254,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99253\/revisions\/99254"}],"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=99253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}