Eh, maybe if they had changed things up for the past 15-20ish years.... maybe. But good lord if this whole event hasn't exposed them for the stale, SSDD crap they've been churning out, they wouldn't be hurting AS bad.





They're doing what they are because VKM said so, damnit

On Meltzer's board it was mentioned Backstage had 35k viewers this week but it was not enough to be listed in the top 150 programs for the day.

Whoever posted that there must have gotten some faulty info since Backstage ranked this week at #142 and did 134k viewers with a 0.04 in the key demo.

First time since mid-February it managed to rank.

Rough week for AEW and NXT


AEW - 685k (#37)
NXT - 590k (#74)


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News, news, news, news, news, MTV show, news, news, news, news, my 600 lb. life, news, news, news, news, news, AEW.

Eh. They still had a good week.

Probably a mix of people not liking last week's empty arena show from AEW and assuming the same was going to happen this week and that MTV show taking away a good chunk of the young viewers for both shows.

Neither WWE nor AEW taking advantage of a lot more people being stuck at home during these past few weeks is a bit of a worrying sign. News shows doing monster numbers makes sense considering the situation but wrestling should have also been able to capitalize greatly with no sports around for the time being.

Someone bet me that AEW would get over a million viewers during this quarantine.

I also take joy in bad wrestling tanking. You reap what you sow.

Still waiting for WWE, Vince, and/or HHH to execute the plans to really crush AEW that I've been hearing about for the last couple of months now.

AEW rebounds

https://www.pwtorch.com/site/2020/04...cable-ranking/

Even though it seems mean-spirited to take joy in RAW and SD dropping viewers each week for putting out a terrible product, I too applaud fans for rejecting bad wrestling and tuning out of WWE.

Is WWE still using their main roster to try to boost NXT?

Charlotte is feuding for the NXT title at Mania - so sort of

SD - 2.38 million average


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All of it. WWE and AEW are both copping it.

Nah, AEW isn’t a threat so they basically stopped trying. :lol:

The 2018 Raw after WrestleMania drew 3,921,000 viewers... Feeling like this year might be barely above 2 million...

*wet fart noises*

Live TV Ratings for RAW post WrestleMania -


Hr 1- 2.31
Hr 2- 2.06
Hr 3 - 1.93

Avg - 2.10 million
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Lol you can't count DVR. Let's face it. AEW is a sinking ship. Impact will probably buy them out by the end of 2020.

That's one of those good/bad type situations.

The good being RAW managed to rebound from last week's all-time low and got a good boost in the key demo rating while the bad being that was one of the smallest ever post-Mania PPV bumps.

For some comparison, last year's post-Mania show had 824k more viewers overall.

AEW fucking sucks. Can't wait for the excuses when the rating comes back even lower than last week. "No one is watching because of the news!" "It's WrestleMania week, dummy!" Yeah, like that wouldn't increase the foot traffic for all wrestling promotions. That's why no one usually runs indies at WrestleMania time.

NXT wins for the first time in 2020

NXT: 693K
AEW: 692K

Nice!


If there was ever a week NXT should've won it was definitely this one w/ The Takeover card.

lol the rating and demos were up from last week :rofl:


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Hahaha R.I.P Impact 2.0

Yeah, makes sense if they were going to break AEW's streak, it would have been this week. Had the two biggest matches that would have been on TakeOver and going with a cinematic feel to the Gargano-Ciampa match likely helped a lot as well.

Since NXT just missed out on the Top 50, I'd assume they probably got a very sizable boost from their old demo since for a while AEW managed to either erase it or minimize that big advantage.

So it wasn’t the news? Funny that.

News still dominated the Top 20 shows by a lot. Both in terms of viewers and in demo rankings.

AEW was off by 0.03 points for a Top 20 ranking but in terms of viewers, only 2 shows in the Top 20 did less than 1 million and neither were news shows.

Apparently Meltzer managed to dig more into NXT's razor thin victory this week and it turns out NXT won due to favorable rounding by Nielsen.

NXT had 692,900 which got rounded up to 693k while AEW had 692,500 but didn't get rounded up so they only got 692k.

Was speculated elsewhere that the difference likely was a single Nielsen viewer who swung the numbers in NXT favor.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Taken another digit in, NXT was 692,900 and AEW was 692,500, so difference of 400 viewers. Very interesting quarters. I'll say this. Definitely not what you would expect.</p>&mdash; Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) <a href="https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1248721231773192193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Last time the numbers were that close was when they tied once time in December. Wouldn't be surprised if favorable rounding also happened back then.

Seems peculiar Meltzer felt the need to point this out tbh

Usually stuff like that gets revealed in the following Newsletter but something like this has only happened one other time soo far so I guess he felt extra giddy revealing it early.

Based on his tease, wouldn't be surprised at all if the squash match involving the Indus Sher tag team beat out one or more quarters from the very hyped up final encounter between Gargano and Ciampa. Same for Omega's tag match probably not being a ratings disaster despite the general negative reception to it online.

Like last week's set of shows ended up revealing that America doesn't like Dumb & Dumber since it did an abysmal number as a lead-in and NXT might have had their least ever viewed segment in USA Network era history.

Turns out the decider was the first ten minutes of both shows since NXT had a better lead-in and stronger start than AEW did.

SD drops a little post Mania from last week's 2.38 million to 2.31 million this week

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:lol:

He's biased as fuck and it's made him unbearable. He's constantly sacrificing whatever credibility he had to spin things to make AEW look better.

But shouldn't the news have crippled them?

Its a bit different with network channels.

Networks can withstand the on-going news shows onslaught better due to having a larger audience reach and only FOX airs news during prime time hours but its not tracked since its local news.

If this was regular cable, Smackdown would have taken the #2 & #3 spots going by the previous Friday's cable rankings if you ignore the other networks.

If SD aired Friday Nights on the USA Network it would have less viewers than RAW.

If Raw aired Monday nights on FOX, it would have more viewers than SmackDown.

Yeah that's very possible because of USA Network having a smaller national reach and Fridays generally being the least viewed day of the week.

When Smackdown moved to Tuesdays on the USA Network it managed to get the double boost of being live and being on a better day for cable prime time shows.

1.91 million average


This might be the first time all three hours are under 2 million, but I don't know for sure.
Last week was 2.10 million. (credit - showbuzzdaily)


Most Watched on YT:
Drew vs Andrade - 1 million
Seth attacks Drew - 657k
Nia Jax vs Kairi - 317k

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Raw triples AEW viewership! Wow, The Revival better not join that sinking ship