This past Wednesday’s “New Year’s Smash” episode of AEW Dynamite slipped from last week’s numbers in both viewership and ratings.
AEW Dynamite had 801,000 viewers, a 0.26 rating in the key 18-49 demo, and a 0.19 in the 18-34 demo.
Despite the dip, AEW Dynamite still ranked #2 for the night and #1 in its timeslot. The show was only behind the NBA, which had a late game on ESPN that had 978,000 viewers and a 0.33 rating.
Compared to last week, AEW Dynamite was down 5% in viewers, down 17.4% in 18-49 and down 12.8% in 18-34.
Compared to last year, AEW Dynamite was down 6.5% in viewers, up 0.3% in 18-49 and up 6.3% in 18-34.
AEW Dynamite had 90,000 in men 18-34 (down 15.1% from last week), 46,000 in women 18-34 (down 8%), 146,000 in men 35-49 (down 16.6%) and 55,000 in women 35-49 (down 28.6%). The audience was 70% male in 18-49.
Q1: Adam Cole, Bullet Club Gold, Acclaimed segment – 1,063,000 viewers, 441,000 in 18-49
Q2: Eddie Kingston & Daniel Garcia promos/Orange Cassidy vs. Dante Martin – 858,000 viewers (down 205,000), 370,000 in 18-49 (down 71,000)
Q3: End of Cassidy vs. Martin/Toni Storm promo/Private Party segment/House of Black promo/Swerve Strickland promo – 808,000 viewers (down 50,000), 335,000 in 18-49 (down 35,000)
Q4: Mariah May vs. Queen Aminata/Deonna Purrazzo debut – 780,000 viewers (down 28,000), 322,000 in 18-49 (up 13,000)
Q5: Christian Cage segment/The Outcasts segment/Konosuke Takeshita vs. Darby Allin – 777,000 viewers (down 3,000), 348,000 in 18-49 (up 26,000)
Q6: End of Takeshita vs. Allin/ – 733,000 viewers (down 44,000), 300,000 in 18-49 (down 48,000)
Q7: Trent Beretta vs. Bryan Keith vs. El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Brian Cage/Matt Menard promo/Hangman Page promo/Eddie Kingston promo – 729,000 viewers (down 4,000), 303,000 in 18-49 (up 3,000)
Q8: Daniel Garcia vs. Swerve Strickland – 690,000 viewers (down 39,000), 284,000 in 18-49 (down 19,000)
Overrun: End of Garcia vs. Swerve – 713,000 (up 23,000), 303,000 in 18-49 (up 19,000)
