AEW Beats NXT in Ratings for Third Straight Week

The ratings are in for both AEW Dynamite on TNT and NXT on USA Network, and the number for Oct. 16 tell a similar story to the week before. Dynamite finished with the fifth-highest rating of the night on cable with a 0.44 in the 18-49 demographic and managed to stay above one million viewers at 1.014 million. Meanwhile NXT brought in 712,000 viewers and a 0.20 rating. Both shows dipped slightly in both viewers and ratings, but neither lost more than 100,000 viewers.

 

AEW loaded up this week’s episode of Dynamite with two championship matches – AEW World Champion Chris Jericho vs. Darby Allin and AEW Women’s World Champion Riho vs. Britt Baker – two tag team tournament matches and a star-studded tag match involving Jon Moxley, Kenny Omega, Hangman Page and PAC. Meanwhile NXT kept its show simple this week with a few grudge matches – Keith Lee vs. Dominik Dijakovic and Pete Dunn vs. Damian Priest – along with a handful of short matches involving Tommaso Ciampa, Imperium, lo Shirai, Matt Riddle, Tegan Nox and Killian Dain.

 

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