Countdown to All Out does 390K

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

From the Observer:

Friday night's Countdown to All Out preview special, which was only officially announced by AEW last week and not really promoted at all, averaged 390,000 viewers airing at 10 p.m. Eastern time on TNT.

In the key 18-49 demo, the show finished 29th for the night on cable with a 0.14 rating. According to Showbuzz Daily, the rating in the demo and the overall viewership number are considered average.

TNT usually airs repeat programming in the 10 p.m. Eastern time slot.

It's hard to say what this means, but viewership was over 50 percent higher than last year's All In pre-show. The difference was that the All In pre-show aired on a weaker network -- WGN America -- and in a traditionally weaker time slot at 7 p.m. Eastern on Saturday. But it also took place right before All In and featured live matches, while Friday's special was taped promo packages for the bouts that would take place the next night on pay-per-view.

The official debut for AEW on TNT will be on Wednesday, October 2. The show will air live weekly from 8-10 p.m. Eastern.

[Spider2024]

They did a TV special on TNT last week? I literally didn't know about that until 1 minute ago.

[Mayonnaise]

Without even trying TNT went from not in the top 150 the week before to 29 (according to PWInsider). It'll obviously be different when weekly show starts and they face NXT but this seems like a positive to me.

[Some Baritone guy IS REDEEMED!]

Sept 3, 2019 21:38:24 GMT -5 Mayonnaise said:

Without even trying TNT went from not in the top 150 the week before to 29 (according to PWInsider). It'll obviously be different when weekly show starts and they face NXT but this seems like a positive to me.

It was barely advertised too, and they've been plugging AEW's weekly show like hell on TBS, and if they did that without trying in a pretty iffy time spot, imagine what they'll do prime time.

[Joe Neglia]

Wasn't it 100% recaps? That's pretty impressive if so, especially with the aforementioned lack of advertising

[Mozenrath]

Sept 3, 2019 21:58:21 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

Wasn't it 100% recaps? That's pretty impressive if so, especially with the aforementioned lack of advertising

Yeah, basically just a refresher. That's totally nuts.

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This is the first time I've even heard of it.

[DASH 243✅]

I stumbled upon it on accident. Watched like 5 minutes of it, just a bunch of promos.

[Mozenrath]

Sept 3, 2019 22:02:35 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

This is the first time I've even heard of it.

Yeah, they didn't really put much emphasis on it and I think it was sort of understood it'd all just be stuff we'd seen already, so people didn't really champion it. That it did this well is pretty impressive considering that.

[octopus]

Wait thats good now? Thats terrible.

[Dub H]

Sept 3, 2019 21:58:21 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

Wasn't it 100% recaps? That's pretty impressive if so, especially with the aforementioned lack of advertising

It was pretry much a big cut of road to and BTE.

And yeh pretry much no ad of any kind.Good numbers for something that had nothing new or publicity

[thetower52]

Sept 3, 2019 22:19:02 GMT -5 octopus said:

Wait thats good now? Thats terrible.

For a hardley promoted recap show of a company lost people haven’t heard of its pretty good

[Dub H]

Sept 3, 2019 22:19:02 GMT -5 octopus said:

Wait thats good now? Thats terrible.

It was a glorified AD that was barely announced. It is good for that.

Obviously the weekly shows would.be expected much more

[chrom]

Sept 3, 2019 22:19:02 GMT -5 octopus said:

Wait thats good now? Thats terrible.

Friday night airing at 10pm? Yeah that is good

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This is about the number I expect the weekly show to even out to once the after the few opening weeks of intrigue and everyone sees what they are bringing to the table.

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Sept 3, 2019 22:19:02 GMT -5 octopus said:

Wait thats good now? Thats terrible.

It really, really isn't. It's a recap show that had virtually no publicity for a company that really has been built entirely via Youtube and Twitter, at 10 PM on a Friday night. This is pretty great under the circumstances.

[thetower52]

Is there any idea what ARWs target rating is for there weekly show anyway?

[Dub H]

Sept 3, 2019 22:22:20 GMT -5 @sigmax said:

This is about the number I expect the weekly show to even out to once the after the few opening weeks of intrigue and everyone sees what they are bringing to the table.

If the late friday night ad got 390k I expect the show itself to get much more.

[Mozenrath]

Sept 3, 2019 22:24:16 GMT -5 thetower52 said:

Is there any idea what ARWs target rating is for there weekly show anyway?

Good question. I'm really not sure what their aim is, though I'd imagine if they break a million, that'd pretty much have to be seen as a success.

[Dub H]

Sept 3, 2019 23:07:04 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Sept 3, 2019 22:24:16 GMT -5 thetower52 said:

Is there any idea what ARWs target rating is for there weekly show anyway?

Good question. I'm really not sure what their aim is, though I'd imagine if they break a million, that'd pretty much have to be seen as a success.

i think a million is a best case scenario.

Mine at least,my realistic scenairo is around 700k.