AEW Dynamite Ratings 1/18/23

[darbus alan]

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18-49 Demo - 0.31

P2+ Viewership - 969k

#3 for the night behind the NBA. Slight bump in viewership, but a slight dip in demo from last week.

In case anyone's curious, Dana White's Head Trauma Lawsuit Waiting To Happen Slapfight show debuted at 0.10 in demo and 295k P2+ viewership, ranking #45 for the night.

[markymark]

Im happy for Powerslap rating because it deserved a low one and karma for WBD after they denied Jay Briscoes tribute...

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

Very good number given where last week was since this was a weaker card on the surface.

Also, WBD stuck their neck out and ignored this whole Dana controversy just to get an equivalent of a bad Rampage rating. And this was the premiere, it's only going to get worse.

[Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story]

I said this last night when a few of us had it on and were joking around - I don't think it makes it a full season. Drawing 295K after your lead-in drew 965K? Surefire way to get cancelled.

[darbus alan]

Jan 19, 2023 17:24:19 GMT -5 "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik said:

Very good number given where last week was since this was a weaker card on the surface.

Also, WBD stuck their neck out and ignored this whole Dana controversy just to get an equivalent of a bad Rampage rating. And this was the premiere, it's only going to get worse.

I think this would tie either for the worst or second worst demo Rampage has ever done. And they never did this bad in viewership. It's only going to get worse from here.

And good. Dana White is a piece of shit and this looks like a remarkably stupid show besides.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Honestly Rampage usually does double the viewership Powerslap even got in its debut, it absolutely deserves to fail, big time. Should have let them air the Jay Briscoe tribute over that hot garbage...

Glad Dynamite's getting a consistent viewership again though, just under a million is pretty good, third on the night even better. It'd be number one every week if it wasn't for the NBA, and when you can say that, you're doing well.

That dropoff when The Powerslap show came on though? F***ing golden lmfao

[jm]

That viewership number for PowerSlap was for the PREMIERE episode. That is a number I would've expected after a few weeks once the novelty wore off. To get that number now means that people have rightfully rejected it in droves. How low can PowerSlap ratings go?

[A Little Doo Doo]

Lol get f***ed Dana

[Loser troll. Please ban me]

Jan 19, 2023 17:45:03 GMT -5 A Little Doo Doo said:

Lol get f***ed Dana

I have a long theory but the short of it is Dana watched slap mountain while high and went for it.

["American Nightmare" B.B. Bart]

Only rating discourse I want to talk about this week is Power Slap’s premiere getting power slapped in the ratings. Almost all of Dynamite’s overall viewership switched off the show once 10pm hit.

[XIII]

Power slap is the dumbest shit ever. It’s literally a game of who’s dumb enough to pretend like they don’t have a concussion for the longest. Takes almost no skill, it’s just all the way stupid.

[darbus alan]

Jan 19, 2023 21:15:56 GMT -5 "American Nightmare" B.B. Bart said:

Only rating discourse I want to talk about this week is Power Slap’s premiere getting power slapped in the ratings. Almost all of Dynamite’s overall viewership switched off the show once 10pm hit.

That and Mothman's write-up.

[Rudy Gobert Weather Machine]

Me and the gang watching Powerslap

[darbus alan]

Jan 19, 2023 17:37:20 GMT -5 jm said:

That viewership number for PowerSlap was for the PREMIERE episode. That is a number I would've expected after a few weeks once the novelty wore off. To get that number now means that people have rightfully rejected it in droves. How low can PowerSlap ratings go?

For comparison's sake, the debut episode of AEW Ramapge was 0.31 in the key demo and 740k in P2+ viewership. The next week was the "CM Punk Returns" episode which got a staggering 0.53 demo with 1,126,000 viewership respectively (but CM Punk isn't a draw supposedly). And that was in the "graveyard slot." Wednesdays @ 10pm don't have nearly the same poor perception that Fridays at the same time do lol.

Goes to show how much wrestling draws relative to a lot of other shows besides other live sports or hyped event TV like The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones. Or at least how Dana White's name means jack shit outside of UFC.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Honestly the people who doom speak about AEW Dynamite ratings should take a good long look at Powerslap's debut numbers

That's what a dead on arrival show looks like, THAT is what bad ratings look like, especially when your lead in is almost a million viewers on average

AEW gets a million viewer lead in with Big Bang Theory reruns, and retains most of that audience... that's what a healthy show looks like, even if the numbers aren't at the bar some people seemingly want

It's just really funny to see a perfect contrast to what people think a bad rating is with Dynamite, to what an ACTUALLY BAD rating is with Powerslap, yet they'll act like Dynamite's in some bad situation, this is why a lot of wrestling fans do not understand ratings and only want to build them up to make things look bad or bias lmfao

[markymark]

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Jan 19, 2023 23:42:51 GMT -5 markymark said:

So just a reference, AEW lost about 300K from start to finish of their show, which is about average for how their lead in drops off from the first quarter, this is also around the average RAW can lose from the first to third hour. From quarter 2 to the end of the show however they only lost about 100K viewers total, pretty stable, it can fluctuate by the week, but very normally, AEW retains their audience, and this does not factor in minute by minute numbers and fluctuations.

Powerslap essentially lose like 600K plus viewership from the end of AEW, to their show's start. That might be even higher if we get minute by minute numbers, as we've seen before, the average does not reflect minute by minute, there could have been a million people watching the climax of the main, or at least more than the average indicates

That's just incredibly awful, like the press Dana generated by actually abusing his wife couldn't have helped, but that was the world saying a collective "F*** you" to this dude, and this "Sport"

Keep acting like you're such saints by shunning Jay Briscoe, as I said, karma's a bitch lmfao.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

The segment to segment break down is interesting. The drop with the Bucks and Top Flight but the jump when what seems to be the Acclaimed. Another bump during Bandido and Bryan. Than it falls off.

I'm normally not one to wish failure on someone but I glad the karma on the big ratings failure of Dana White's stupid slap show. Thats what they get for still shunning Jay.

[Dub H]

Jan 20, 2023 6:05:30 GMT -5 Can you afford to pay me, Gah said:

The segment to segment break down is interesting. The drop with the Bucks and Top Flight but the jump when what seems to be the Acclaimed. Another bump during Bandido and Bryan. Than it falls off.

I'm normally not one to wish failure on someone but I glad the karma on the big ratings failure of Dana White's stupid slap show. Thats what they get for still shunning Jay.

You could also read it as the young Bucks vs top fight gaining viewers ,which is why you need the full minute to minute to properly analyse it.

[clifford]

Jan 19, 2023 17:45:03 GMT -5 A Little Doo Doo said:

Lol get f***ed Dana

If anyone could run Vince close to 'world's shittest boss' it's Dana White. f*** that goof always and forever.