What percentage of Raw/Smackdown viewers are 18-49?

For this week:


NXT

https://i.imgur.com/mUVDGHj.png


SMACKDOWN

https://i.imgur.com/VXLdCJA.png


RAW

https://i.imgur.com/lLWQr1x.png

Another million views in the bank for NXT!

AEW's response...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m just gonna leave this here.....WALTER=worst wrestling name ever. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JustSayin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JustSayin</a></p>&mdash; Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) <a href="https://twitter.com/IAmJericho/status/1177108479720509441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Nice one "Chris" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

0.32 rating in the 18-49 demo just means that 0.32% of all people 18-49 in the US who have access to TV watched the show

probably like 10,000 people 18-49 watched nxt then

damn!!

Nah, let's say there are like 150,000,000 people 18-49 in the US with a TV (just guessing), that would mean 480,000 people 18-49 watched

It actually means .32 is the estimate based on the incredibly small sample size of like 10,000 households that actually have a Nielsen box...

According to WrestlingInc, the 173k drop NXT had this week was enough to tumble their overall viewership down to #31 compared to last week's #19 ranking.

The million range mark (+/- 150k) is probably where NXT is going to hover around for at least the next few months. Maybe dip even more in the lower end depending if AEW doesn't succeed well in bringing back lapsed fans and/or eats too much into NXT's audience.

That isn’t from AEW.

And his name isn’t just “Chris”.

I get that this is for heat, but to a point, I kinda agree with him.

However, a huge part of it has to do with the tone with which his name is said, and if the proper Germanic W pronounciation is used. That's all the difference needed to differentiate between someone who can potentially headline WrestleMania in a few years, and sounding like just some guy who is about to prepare your income taxes.

Yeah, the counterpoint would be more valid if this were from Cody.

https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohs4y...EoCI/giphy.gif

I tweeted a different pic at him though..

Live TV Ratings are in for WWE's Friday special on FOX -- Smackdown's Greatest Hits

Raw did 2.57 this week

Hours were 2.7 (8pm), 2.59 (9pm), and 2.41 (10pm)

Pretty good numbers overall and it also managed to get a rare win over the 90 Day Fiance show.

RAW should get a bump next week because of the Cell PPV but that's probably going to be the high mark for the rest of the year and football season.

I almost went 2.5 in the predictions, but I guess it's closer to 2.6 anyway.

Preliminary ratings number for both AEW and NXT was released earlier in the day from Neilsen.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WEDNESDAY NIGHT WARS<br>According to overnight ratings from Nielsen, <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEWrestling</a> did a 0.7 and <a href="https://twitter.com/WWENXT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWENXT</a> did a 0.5. Will be interesting to see how that translates to viewership.</p>&mdash; Ryan Glasspiegel (@sportsrapport) <a href="https://twitter.com/sportsrapport/status/1179764666064609281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Still possible that NXT could end up with the higher viewership due to how the demos sort out.

Live TV Ratings for AEW and NXT are in

Kind of crazy that AEW actually managed to beat NXT in its first week and how huge the gap was in terms of overall viewers and demo.

Even more crazy when you consider the all out effort done by NXT these past 3 weeks in terms of matches and hype and it still managed to get trounced that badly.

Next week should be interesting to see what type of drop AEW gets and if things start to level out in terms of them being a lot closer in numbers.

I'm confused how the numbers for both went up over 1 million viewers from the initial reports.

Either way I'm happy with it, much more respectable numbers.

:y:

Hope AEW continues to grow and build an audience...

Holy shit. It wasn't even close. Didn't see that coming.

I figured as much. A lot of hype behind them and it's their first TV show. NXT is already established and people know what it is and that it's going to still be there. I think the numbers will get much closer together over the next couple months though.

A-E-DUB! A-E-DUB! A-E-DUB!

I figured they would win in the ratings once the interest seemed so one-sided last night.

But coming in, I couldn't see a show with the WWE brand behind it being beaten in the ratings by any other wrestling show. Much less beaten handily. Congrats AEW. Don't screw the pooch.

Before NXT announced they were gonna go head-to-head with them, I thought 1 million would be a good number. They got 1.4 million WITH NXT eating into the number. That's pretty crazy.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">From multiple sources:<br><br>The debut episode of All Elite Wrestling did 109,000 viewers on TSN 2. <br><br>Was described to me as a good number. <br><br>The premiere also went against the Leafs vs. Senators game in Canada.</p>&mdash; John Pollock (@iamjohnpollock) <a href="https://twitter.com/iamjohnpollock/status/1179869425127886864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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That number isn’t shocking at all. If they’re getting 63k domestic PPV buys and that’s about 5% of the audience, then that’s 1.4 million. I expected them to eventually land on that number, but expected them to start stronger.

I've always been curious how age demographics are calculated. If someone could enlighten me I would be most appreciative.

The part that might worry Vince more isn't AEW vs NXT ratings..It's AEW vs RAW ratings. AEW was only about 800,000 below what RAW gets at it's worst lately

WWE has essentially lost (during most weeks, myself included,) a lot of their own audience through years of repetitive awful writing and booking. Those folks know what they're going to get from WWE, Vince & Co., and over 95% of it is going to be garbage.

Some of those folks (who are still wrestling fans) probably turned into AEW. Then you have those WWE viewers who stuck with the awful WWE product more often than not but who also still aren't really enjoying WWE and likely feel like WWE's product is garbage but watch WWE out of habit and/or because nothing better is on. Then you also have wrestling fans who will watch whatever wrestling they can find.

If, and in fairness, that's a BIG IF, but if AEW can build on what they did on Wednesday, they can slowly steal some (and maybe more and more) WWE viewers, and also bring in some new viewers as well.

Its sort of like how opinion polls are done with getting a certain amount of people participating and some basic personal data to create the sampling needed.

Then from there its just finding out what those people watched each day and plugging the data into equations to get the projected numbers and demo breakdowns.

When I got contacted to do it a few years ago, mine was book based instead of devices connected to every tv in the house. Was used for some other ratings stuff they tracked.

Ahh, that makes sense. Thank you good sir.

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very curious to see what Smackdown does tonight. They've been doing the "bring back past superstars for years" but this time they've marketed the fuck out of it. Apparently there is a big ring outside the Fox building in NYC this morning. and I've seen ads everywhere.

They somehow got 5 million for the last Raw anniversary show they did. I’d imagine this has to garner more than that.

Fox has been pushing it on every show possible including football, baseball, masked singer etc.

I think between 3 - 4 million

Friday is a bad night for TV and judging from Twitter, people who aren't already fans of WWE don't seem very interested

I am going to tune into my first WWE show in half a year or so.

So that means there will be at least 1 viewer.