AEW Saturday Night Dynamite Sees Big Viewership Drop

AEW brought a loaded show to Saturday night for Dynamite last week. It’s always an interesting situation when a show has to change nights, or networks, for a few weeks due to preemption. Tony Khan’s company even ran head-to-head with SmackDown for thirsty minutes, and they won that ratings battle. How did the final viewership turn out?

Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics reports that AEW Saturday Night Dynamite on October 16th drew 727,000 viewers. They also drew a .28 in the coveted demographic. That is down on both accounts from last week.

October 7th’s Anniversary Special drew an overnight average of 1,053,000 viewers. They also scored a .37 in the 18 to 49 demographic.

The September 29th episode of AEW Dynamite brought an overnight average of 1,152,000 viewers. 588K of those viewers were in the 18 to 49 demographic to give a .40 rating .

September 22nd’s AEW Grand Slam event drew an overnight average of 1,273,000 viewers. Of that number, 627,000 were in the coveted 18 to 49 demographic to give them a .48 rating. This ends AEW’s two-week streak beating WWE Raw in the ratings. WWE Raw brought in 1.793 million viewers with a .49 rating in the 18 to 49 demographic.

The overnight viewership for the September 15th edition of AEW Dynamite brought in and average of 1,175,000 viewers. 574,000 viewers were in the 18 to 49 demographic, giving AEW Dynamite a .44 rating this week. That put AEW Dynamite ahead of WWE Raw’s rating for the second consecutive week. Raw had a .43 rating,

The company’s September 8th episode of AEW Dynamite brought in an overnight average of 1.3 million viewers. They also scored a .53 in the 18 to 49 demographic.

September 1st’s episode of AEW Dynamite brought in an overnight average of 1,047,000. 486,000 of those viewers were in the 18 to 49 demographic to give them a .38 rating.