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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2021 15:15:40 GMT -5
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Apr 1, 2021 15:24:10 GMT -5
That feels low. What were they competing against last night?
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Post by markymark on Apr 1, 2021 15:25:07 GMT -5
Gut feeling that the finale of NXT on Wednesday kinda hit AEW
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Post by eJm on Apr 1, 2021 15:26:00 GMT -5
That feels low. What were they competing against last night? NXT wasn’t that much better so I’d like to know this as well.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Apr 1, 2021 15:27:52 GMT -5
The main event was great but I can see it not carrying that much weight. It's interesting that NXT did a much better 18-49 number than usual and could have lowered AEW's. They had barely anything announced but it was a go home show of sorts. Hopefully AEW holds up next week and can have some momentum going into their first solo show. It's a bad number but fine if it's an outlier. Just gotta keep it from being an outlier and figure out what the problem was.
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Post by cjh on Apr 1, 2021 15:28:22 GMT -5
Gut feeling that the finale of NXT on Wednesday kinda hit AEW Next week is the last Wednesday night NXT.
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Post by polarbearpete on Apr 1, 2021 15:28:53 GMT -5
That feels low. What were they competing against last night? NXT wasn’t that much better so I’d like to know this as well. NXT’s demo seems to have gone up a bit, as they were only .05 below.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2021 15:29:17 GMT -5
Just looking at the numbers, it looks like NXT probably did leech at least some viewers, probably because its Mania season and they're gearing up for Takeover. A big NBA game likely didn't help matters. But, what's most likely is just that AEW's "floor" of viewers is around 700K, and this wasn't exactly the most compelling Dynamite on paper (though it ended up being an absolutely stellar Dynamite). It'll be interesting to see what the 3-day viewership numbers are, because I bet a lot of people streamed or DVRed it.
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Post by eJm on Apr 1, 2021 15:29:51 GMT -5
NXT wasn’t that much better so I’d like to know this as well. NXT’s demo seems to have gone up a bit, as they were only .05 below. Oh, I saw it and thought they were doing a bit worse than usual. Good for them in that case.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Apr 1, 2021 15:30:16 GMT -5
Yeah, this is why I'm not getting all amped for the numbers to soar when NXT is on Tuesdays. They'll have valleys, notably still in the top ten (so, possibly a bad night for TV in terms of total viewership, but the demo number is also on the low side), and those valleys are likely to still happen independently of NXT's presence.
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Post by Fake Jesus on Apr 1, 2021 15:31:02 GMT -5
When you get repeated weeks in the mid-700s, it's not an aberration - it's a trend. No matter how the core audience may enjoy the shows they're putting on, AEW's had a distinct downgrade in quality lately (Not of the individual episodes, those are all still excellent, but the ephemeral stuff, the feeling of momentum being created and things progressing) Omega's reign is not clicking because it hasn't been booked well. He beat Moxley on December 2nd and he's still feuding with him by April 1st. He went to Impact and Impact never came to him - that lightning bolt ending, "see you on Tuesday", was never properly followed up. He's feuding with the Impact world champion in a title vs title feud and nothing has been made of it on Dynamite. He's never dominated the show the way Jericho or Moxley would as champion (Even when they'd take weeks off). AEW feels like it's in a holding pattern, and it's completely unclear what for. This is an issue that needs to be addressed.
Having said that everything is entirely fixable and AEW has had these periods before, so I don't see any great problems here.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 1, 2021 15:34:26 GMT -5
Both shows kinda just coasted this week. NBA did rather well and the news shows were the news shows. Godzilla vs Kong opening day might've played a part? Hard to really say.
AEW's gonna be alone in two weeks and will also no longer have to compete with The Challenge which was number one yet again.
Interested to see the ratings breakdown for this show, since last week the average viewership was very misleading and the show opened and closed very well.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 1, 2021 15:38:42 GMT -5
When you get repeated weeks in the mid-700s, it's not an aberration - it's a trend. No matter how the core audience may enjoy the shows they're putting on, AEW's had a distinct downgrade in quality lately (Not of the individual episodes, those are all still excellent, but the ephemeral stuff, the feeling of momentum being created and things progressing) Omega's reign is not clicking because it hasn't been booked well. He beat Moxley on December 2nd and he's still feuding with him by April 1st. He went to Impact and Impact never came to him - that lightning bolt ending, "see you on Tuesday", was never properly followed up. He's feuding with the Impact world champion in a title vs title feud and nothing has been made of it on Dynamite. He's never dominated the show the way Jericho or Moxley would as champion (Even when they'd take weeks off). AEW feels like it's in a holding pattern, and it's completely unclear what for. This is an issue that needs to be addressed. Having said that everything is entirely fixable and AEW has had these periods before, so I don't see any great problems here. It's also just live viewership priority, AEW still gets over a million viewers average in three day spans, so it's not like they still don't get the views it's just some aren't taking AEW as a must see in the live moment show over other programs, even NXT I'm sure for some viewers It's gonna be interesting to see how these numbers continue to trend with the "War" ending soon. You can say Omega's run hasn't clicked but feel like he's drawn rather well for the viewership and continues to keep people interested. I think the Moxley stuff is also coming to a head soon and he probably would have been "taken out" at Revolution if not for the ending, so time will tell. AEW ebbs and flows, sometimes very unpredictably.
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Post by warden on Apr 1, 2021 16:33:55 GMT -5
It was probably due to godzilla vs king kong. Surely that was the reason, surely
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Post by Dub H on Apr 1, 2021 16:35:37 GMT -5
that sucks,it feels liek AEW is better than it ha sbeen for a while.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Apr 1, 2021 16:37:45 GMT -5
Wonder if the first 2 matches played a part. Not saying either were bad at all (far from it) but I could see how they could be seen as boring
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Post by Celgress on Apr 1, 2021 16:38:54 GMT -5
When you get repeated weeks in the mid-700s, it's not an aberration - it's a trend. No matter how the core audience may enjoy the shows they're putting on, AEW's had a distinct downgrade in quality lately (Not of the individual episodes, those are all still excellent, but the ephemeral stuff, the feeling of momentum being created and things progressing) Omega's reign is not clicking because it hasn't been booked well. He beat Moxley on December 2nd and he's still feuding with him by April 1st. He went to Impact and Impact never came to him - that lightning bolt ending, "see you on Tuesday", was never properly followed up. He's feuding with the Impact world champion in a title vs title feud and nothing has been made of it on Dynamite. He's never dominated the show the way Jericho or Moxley would as champion (Even when they'd take weeks off). AEW feels like it's in a holding pattern, and it's completely unclear what for. This is an issue that needs to be addressed. Having said that everything is entirely fixable and AEW has had these periods before, so I don't see any great problems here. Frankly, I'm worried this trend is primarily because of Revolution. Several of my causal wrestling fan friends who previously loved the product are now lukewarm on AEW following the non-exploding ring and Christian being the "mega megastar" debut. Now they don't seem to care that much about the product and are fine missing stuff (Dark, the new show, even Dynamite with two of them).
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Post by markymark on Apr 1, 2021 16:53:57 GMT -5
Could be Takeover hype(last night was the Go home for the last NXT on wednesday), and or stuff like the Nightmare Family stuff or Shida/Tay/Bunny stuff or the Arcade Brawl that people didnt care
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Apr 1, 2021 17:15:47 GMT -5
Could be Takeover hype(last night was the Go home for the last NXT on wednesday), and or stuff like the Nightmare Family stuff or Shida/Tay/Bunny stuff or the Arcade Brawl that people didnt care It definitely caught me off guard. NXT is usually good but their 18-49 number was better than some cards they've put on that in theory should have blown last night out of the water. Wonder if the quarters will tell a clearer story.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 1, 2021 17:16:07 GMT -5
When you get repeated weeks in the mid-700s, it's not an aberration - it's a trend. No matter how the core audience may enjoy the shows they're putting on, AEW's had a distinct downgrade in quality lately (Not of the individual episodes, those are all still excellent, but the ephemeral stuff, the feeling of momentum being created and things progressing) Omega's reign is not clicking because it hasn't been booked well. He beat Moxley on December 2nd and he's still feuding with him by April 1st. He went to Impact and Impact never came to him - that lightning bolt ending, "see you on Tuesday", was never properly followed up. He's feuding with the Impact world champion in a title vs title feud and nothing has been made of it on Dynamite. He's never dominated the show the way Jericho or Moxley would as champion (Even when they'd take weeks off). AEW feels like it's in a holding pattern, and it's completely unclear what for. This is an issue that needs to be addressed. Having said that everything is entirely fixable and AEW has had these periods before, so I don't see any great problems here. Frankly, I'm worried this trend is primarily because of Revolution. Several of my causal wrestling fan friends who previously loved the product are now lukewarm on AEW following the non-exploding ring and Christian being the "mega megastar" debut. Now they don't seem to care that much about the product and are fine missing stuff (Dark, the new show, even Dynamite with two of them). If wrestling fans really are gonna be that way over overhyped expectations for a surprise and a botch they covered up for honestly better than anyone ever expected them to, then how is wrestling expected to ever succeed in the current age? You're either perfect or you're screwed. AEW's done more than enough the last three weeks to make up for either of those things. So I would hope that wrestling fans just didn't stop watching AEW in droves due to one confined moment, and it's just other hapinstance. As has been said before, Nielson ratings aren't always the measuring stick for ratings and AEW gets over 200k or more in the 3 day window that usually gets it over a million, so it's not like they're suffering, which is also good.
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