With wrestling rankings down throughout the board within the face of the 2024 Olympic Video games, “AEW Dynamite” managed to marginally enhance on final week’s numbers.
As first reported by PWTorch, Tony Khan’s flagship Wednesday night time program introduced in a mean of 622,000 complete viewers on August 7, up 2% from the 609,000 common viewers it drew for the August 2 episode. This week’s present additionally rose in the important thing 18-49 demographic, as much as 0.19 from final week’s 0.18. Total, “Dynamite” ranked eighth in the important thing demo amongst cable packages on Wednesday; apparently, Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics famous that “Dynamite’s” longtime lead-in, “The Large Bang Concept,” scored 0.20 within the 18-49 demographic, which has hardly ever — if ever — occurred earlier than.
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The affect of the lead-in was additionally clearly seen in Wrestlenomics’ quarter-hour breakdown. As standard, “Dynamite” peaked with 822,000 common viewers in QH1 (which was taken up fully by the primary a part of an American Championship eliminator match between Kyle Fletcher and MJF) however dropped to 732,000 in QH2 and 626,000 in QH3 — a mean lack of virtually 200,000 viewers within the first half-hour. The present by no means recovered from that time, ultimately settling at a low level of 516,000 viewers in the course of the seven-minute overrun (the end and post-match of Bryan Danielson vs. Jeff Jarrett). The identical sample usually held for the important thing demo score.
Whereas this week’s “Dynamite” score represented a rise from final week, the present as a complete continues to backslide in year-over-year metrics, with Wrestlenomics noting that “Dynamite’s” common viewership for the month of August 2024 is at present down 29% from August 2023, whereas August 2024’s key demo numbers are down 39% from final yr on the identical time.
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