Wrestling Thread (WWE, AEW, etc)

Originally posted by NONAME:

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:

Is anyone surprised? It's a brand new show that was hyped up for months.

The margins were similar across all demographics listed by ShowBuzzDaily other than advertiser-unfriendly (because they have more set purchasing habits) 50+, where NXT edged out Dynamite with a 0.36% rating to a 0.34% rating. This is a massive win for AEW and TNT, both for the most obvious reasons and because the lack of overlap with NXT viewers—especially in the key demo—suggests that AEW has a different audience that hasn't been watching WWE.

Originally posted by NONAME:

Originally posted by NONAME:

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:
Is anyone surprised? It's a brand new show that was hyped up for months.

The margins were similar across all demographics listed by ShowBuzzDaily other than advertiser-unfriendly (because they have more set purchasing habits) 50+, where NXT edged out Dynamite with a 0.36% rating to a 0.34% rating. This is a massive win for AEW and TNT, both for the most obvious reasons and because the lack of overlap with NXT viewers—especially in the key demo—suggests that AEW has a different audience that hasn't been watching WWE.

Pretty crazy how fast it came about and succeed. I'm very excited for them and can't wait to see what they do. TNT has to be very happy with their investment right now

Originally posted by pdizo916:

Originally posted by NONAME:
AEW drew 1.409 million viewers. NXT drew 891,000 viewers. AEW rating 0.84; NXT 0.66.

Damn. Raw and sd pull in way more. RIP AEW.

Originally posted by NONAME:

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:

Is anyone surprised? It's a brand new show that was hyped up for months.

The margins were similar across all demographics listed by ShowBuzzDaily other than advertiser-unfriendly (because they have more set purchasing habits) 50 , where NXT edged out Dynamite with a 0.36% rating to a 0.34% rating. This is a massive win for AEW and TNT, both for the most obvious reasons and because the lack of overlap with NXT viewers—especially in the key demo—suggests that AEW has a different audience that hasn't been watching WWE.

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:

Originally posted by NONAME:

Originally posted by NONAME:

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:

Is anyone surprised? It's a brand new show that was hyped up for months.

The margins were similar across all demographics listed by ShowBuzzDaily other than advertiser-unfriendly (because they have more set purchasing habits) 50+, where NXT edged out Dynamite with a 0.36% rating to a 0.34% rating. This is a massive win for AEW and TNT, both for the most obvious reasons and because the lack of overlap with NXT viewers—especially in the key demo—suggests that AEW has a different audience that hasn't been watching WWE.

Pretty crazy how fast it came about and succeed. I'm very excited for them and can't wait to see what they do. TNT has to be very happy with their investment right now

Are you really quoting yourself?

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:

Originally posted by pdizo916:

Originally posted by NONAME:

AEW drew 1.409 million viewers. NXT drew 891,000 viewers. AEW rating 0.84; NXT 0.66.

Damn. Raw and sd pull in way more. RIP AEW.

It will be interesting to see what happens over the course of the next few weeks now that the debut is over. It's a good start for AEW, but maintaining those numbers will be telling.

Originally posted by pdizo916:

Originally posted by NONAME:

AEW drew 1.409 million viewers. NXT drew 891,000 viewers. AEW rating 0.84; NXT 0.66.

Damn. Raw and sd pull in way more. RIP AEW.

Originally posted by tjd808185:

It's sad looking at tv ratings. 1.4 mil. In the AE Sunday Night Heat would be embarrased by those numbers.

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by tjd808185:

It's sad looking at tv ratings. 1.4 mil. In the AE Sunday Night Heat would be embarrased by those numbers.

Its not bad considering who they are. Wcw had guys like Hogan, Flair, Sting, when they first went to tnt, they opened with a 2.5 rating. And obviously there was no streaming. Also hockey opening night and a playoffs baseball.

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Originally posted by tjd808185:

It's sad looking at tv ratings. 1.4 mil. In the AE Sunday Night Heat would be embarrased by those numbers.

Its not bad considering who they are. Wcw had guys like Hogan, Flair, Sting, when they first went to tnt, they opened with a 2.5 rating. And obviously there was no streaming. Also hockey opening night and a playoffs baseball.

To be honest with all of the hype the last few months I expected the numbers to be higher.

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Its not bad considering who they are. Wcw had guys like Hogan, Flair, Sting, when they first went to tnt, they opened with a 2.5 rating. And obviously there was no streaming. Also hockey opening night and a playoffs baseball.

Originally posted by tjd808185:

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

Its not bad considering who they are. Wcw had guys like Hogan, Flair, Sting, when they first went to tnt, they opened with a 2.5 rating. And obviously there was no streaming. Also hockey opening night and a playoffs baseball.

If you watched wrestling in 95 you'd know why 2.5 was what they were drawing.

Originally posted by JustinMT:

Lol so many overreactions to the ratings online. It's week 1, see if they can sustain it and people are mocking WWE for NXT losing the ratings "war." They should be losing, they're like a AAA team compared to Raw, Smackdown and AEW. lol

Originally posted by TheGore49er:

They need some bigger names. Jericho just isnt that huge of a draw. Same with Cody, hes okay. Now if cm punk shows up those ratings are tripling lol.