AEW TV Ratings Dip: Collision 228K, Dynamite 459K

AEW’s weekly television programs posted lower linear television audiences this week, with Saturday’s Collision averaging 228,000 viewers on TNT on October 25 and Wednesday’s Dynamite drawing 459,000 viewers on TBS on October 29, according to viewership reports. Collision registered a 0.04 rating in the 18 to 49 demographic and finished 12th among cable original programming in that demo, while Dynamite recorded a 0.08 rating and placed seventh on the prime time cable charts.

Collision’s October 25 audience fell sharply from the previous week’s 400,000 viewers, a decline tied in part to the fact that the prior edition followed a special three hour block of AEW programming. The Saturday figure was also down about 20 percent from the October 11 broadcast, which averaged roughly 286,000 viewers. Ratings analysts note that Nielsen’s shift to a Big Data Panel measurement system in late September has altered comparability with earlier weeks, and reported totals do not include audiences from the MAX/HBO Max simulcast.

The October 25 Collision broadcast featured a mix of storyline and in-ring action. AEW World Champion Hangman Page opened with a promo in which he warned that when he gets...