It was, as Thanos would say, inevitable. Dealing with each the Olympic Video games, the three hour pre-show for WWE SummerSlam, and being moved from its 8 p.m. timeslot to the late afternoon to be able to keep away from the SummerSlam essential card, the viewership numbers for “AEW Collision” have been all the time destined to take successful. The one query left to reply was how low might it get.
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The reply is fairly low. Wrestlenomics stories that “Collision,” airing at 5 p.m. on the east coast, drew 189K complete viewers and 0.08 within the coveted 18-49 demographic. Each numbers have been considerably down from the earlier week, as one would count on, with complete viewership dropping a whopping 51% from 382K, whereas 18-49 was down 33% from 0.12. The drops have been all however an identical in relation to the 4 week common, with solely complete viewership differing barely with a drop of fifty%.
The numbers symbolize the underside of the barrel for “Collision,” with Saturday’s quantity serving because the lowest in each complete viewership and 18-49 within the present’s one 12 months historical past. Whereas “Collision” is prone to bounce again this Saturday with out SummerSlam to compete with, it would nonetheless should take care of the Olympics, that are set to proceed till Sunday. Olympic protection final weekend could have damage “Collision” greater than WWE, because the video games took 6 of the highest 8 spots on cable Saturday evening.
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If one is searching for positives, “Collision’s” rankings have been regular in 18-49 all through, staying between 0.07 and 0.08m whereas complete viewership grew all through the present. In actual fact, QH1’s and a couple of have been the low level, drawing 167K and 171K respectively, with the remainder of the QH’s drawing between 186K and 207K, the latter which was the excessive level in QH8.
