Halloween weighs on RAW, when the NFL isn't around, the World Series takes over, and Dynamite takes it pretty well. RAW Ratings (31th October) : Ratings : 1 501 000 (-8,53 %) & 0.36 sur les 18-49 [-0.09] Ratings per hour : H1 : [P2+ : 1 553 000] [18-49 : 0.35] [Cable Pos : 8] H2 : [P2+ : 1 586 000] [18-49 : 0.39] [Cable Pos : 7] H3 : [P2+ : 1 363 000] [18-49 : 0.34] [Cable Pos : 9] Despite the presence of headliners like Brock Lesnar or Roman Reigns, it was not enough o

RAW gets a second wind, Dynamite gets its Wednesday back and Friday shows suffer from MLB. RAW Ratings (24th October) : Ratings : 1 641 000 (-9,04 %) & 0.45 sur les 18-49 [-0.05] Ratings per hour : H1 : [P2+ : 1 767 000] [18-49 : 0.49] [Cable Pos :6] H2 : [P2+ : 1 695 000] [18-49 : 0.45] [Cable Pos : 7] H3 : [P2+ : 1 461 000] [18-49 : 0.40] [Cable Pos : 9] The numbers are down for the second week in a row (following the very big episode two weeks ago). We saw that we ha

Welcome to another weekly article about the US TV ratings for wrestling shows. RAW is cashing in nicely, the NBA is making a comeback, and MLB is pushing AEW and NXT to face off again, the first time in 18 months. RAW Ratings (17th October) : Ratings : 1 804 000 (-1,10 %) & 0.50 sur les 18-49 [-0.05] Ratings per hour : H1 : [P2+ : 1 941 000] [18-49 : 0.54] [Cable Pos :5] H2 : [P2+ : 1 852 000] [18-49 : 0.51] [Cable Pos : 6] H3 : [P2+ : 1 618 000] [18-49 : 0.44] [Cable P

Welcome to another weekly article about the US TV ratings for wrestling shows. RAW goes all out to take on the NFL, AEW comes to Toronto and SmackDown holds its routine. RAW Ratings (10th October) : Ratings : 1 824 000 (+14,07 %) & 0.55 sur les 18-49 [+0.15] Ratings per hour : H1 : [P2+ : 1 876 000] [18-49 : 0.56] [Cable Pos :6] H2 : [P2+ : 1 894 000] [18-49 : 0.57] [Cable Pos : 5] H3 : [P2+ : 1 703 000] [18-49 : 0.53] [Cable Pos : 8] It took a lot of ingredients to see

Hello and welcome to another weekly article about the US TV ratings for wrestling shows. Season Premier for the blue show, Dynamite celebrates its birthday while the NBA prepares its comeback and in the end... the NFL always wins. RAW Ratings (3rd October) : Ratings : 1 599 000 (-4,478 %) & 0.40 sur les 18-49 [-0.05] Ratings per hour : H1 : [P2+ : 1 701 000] [18-49 : 0.43] [Cable Pos :8] H2 : [P2+ : 1 683 000] [18-49 : 0.43] [Cable Pos : 7] H3 : [P2+ : 1 413 000] [18-49

Hello and welcome to another weekly article about the US TV ratings for wrestling shows. RAW stops the fall against the NFL, AEW struggles after Grand Slam and SmackDown misses Roman Reigns (a bit)... Summer is over, winter programs are coming. RAW Ratings (26th September) : Ratings : 1 674 000 (+5,02 %) & 0.45 sur les 18-49 [+/-0.00] Ratings per hour : H1 : [P2+ : 1 728 000] [18-49 : 0.45] [Cable Pos :7] H2 : [P2+ : 1 623 000] [18-49 : 0.47] [Cable Pos : 6] H3 : [P2+ : 1

Hello and welcome to another weekly article about the US TV ratings for wrestling shows. The NFL struck again, All Elite Wrestling celebrated Grand Slam the way it should have and Roman Reigns strikes a blow. A few words on what to remember. RAW Ratings (19th September) : Ratings : 1 594 000 (-6,78 %) & 0.45 sur les 18-49 [+0.01] Ratings per hour : H1 : [P2+ : 1 709 000] [18-49 : 0.46] [Cable Pos :5] H2 : [P2+ : 1 623 000] [18-49 : 0.46] [Cable Pos : 6] H3 : [P2+ : 1 449

Hello and welcome to another weekly article about the US TV ratings for wrestling shows. The NFL kicks off with a bang, RAW takes the hit and AEW gets ready for Grand Slam. A few words on what to remember. RAW Ratings (12th September) : Ratings : 1 710 000 (-16,75 %) & 0.44 sur les 18-49 [-0.14] Ratings per hour : H1 : [P2+ : 1 783 000] [18-49 : 0.45] [Cable Pos :8] H2 : [P2+ : 1 821 000] [18-49 : 0.48] [Cable Pos : 7] H3 : [P2+ : 1 525 000] [18-49 : 0.39] [Cable Pos :

Hello and welcome to my second weekly article about the US TV ratings for wrestling shows. A week marked by the fallout of several PPVs, a media scrum that will still be talked about for a long time and the NFL that is starting again and will dominate TV for many months. RAW Ratings (5th September) : Ratings : 2 054 000 (-2,52 %) & 0.58 sur les 18-49 [-0.01] Ratings per hour : H1 : [P2+ : 2 088 000] [18-49 : 0.60] [Cable Pos : 3] H2 : [P2+ : 2 120 000] [18-49 : 0.60] [Cab

Hello and welcome to the first issue of TV Rating's brought to you by Lariate_Wrestle featured on Pro Wrestling Musings. RAW Ratings (29th August) : ● Ratings : 2 107 000 (+5,09 %) & 0.59 in the 18-49 [+0.04] ● Ratings per hour : ○ H1 : [P2+ : 2 163 000] [18-49 : 0.59] [Cable Pos : 2] ○ H2 : [P2+ : 2 222 000] [18-49 : 0.64] [Cable Pos : 1] ○ H3 : [P2+ : 1 937 000] [18-49 : 0.54] [Cable Pos : 3] For the third time this month, RAW reached over 2,000,000 viewers on

As of Bound for Glory it was widely reported that the current working relationship between AEW and Impact had ended. The relationship officially on air started as of the ending of Winters coming on December 2nd, 2020 and ran till October 23rd 2021 which was 325 days. A constant critic of the relationship was that it wasn’t doing anything for Impact. So, let’s look at the numbers and see did this relationship work out. Let’s first let’s look at the ratings for this period. Fir

We are back today to look at the numbers behind AEW’s YouTube shows and to see if they have improved or declined. Last time we covered the shows between the 15/03/2021 to 12/04/2021 in my article called, Is AEW Dark and Elevation growing? https://www.prowrestlingmusings.com/post/is-aew-dark-and-elevation-growing In that article we discovered that Dark was declining while Elevation was all over the place. For this analysis I focus on Views, Likes, Dislikes, Comments and run ti

“Until then, presence on TNT remains robust in 2021 with the addition of the new hour-long series “AEW: Rampage.” Debuting on August 13 at 10 p.m. ET, “AEW: Rampage” is a third hour of high-octane wrestling featuring the world renowned stars of AEW. In addition, TNT will debut four new professional wrestling specials annually, continuing to garner and grow AEW’s audience until the move to TBS in 2022”. “And, while we’re looking forward to our arrival on TBS, we’re not saying

It has become something of a running joke in the wrestling community, you see if online every week. Raw was bad tonight. The last Three weeks a lot of review shows have given RAW a bad rating, it is normally trending on Twitter but because people are saying how bad it is. So, the people have spoken and RAW is bad, but something strange is happening its viewership is not drastically falling as you would expect if the show were horrible you would expect a massive loss of viewer

As I write this, we are coming off AEW’s second highest number, I want to continue to look at how the numbers on Social Media show growth or decline in a product. AEW Dark and Elevation are both YouTube only shows, and we need to look at their YouTube channel to see if these shows are growing or declining. Let us look at the last few weeks numbers for both Dark and Elevation. AEW YouTube subscribers 2.11 million Let us look at Dark first. 23/03/2021 Ep81 – Views 374,057 – Li

A change in the way Wrestling is watched. During the last WWE investors call WWE said something that I have found very interesting, They said the way fans view the product has changed and viewership numbers no longer matter as much as more fans are interacting with the product via social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube). This got me thinking, is this true? With viewership numbers constantly in discussion and being compared let us look to see if the way we view wrestling

Most wrestling fans will tell you; Wednesday night is the must-see wrestling night as you have AEW and NXT both running their shows providing us with fantastic entertainment and for 2-4 hours we as fans can shut out the world and enjoy some great wrestling. But is it really must see and is it really helping wrestling take its place back into the fandom and become must watch TV. Let us take a dive down the rabbit hole and look. NXT - Month by Month February 2020 total 3,038

And we're back. After an extended hiatus from the ratings article, it returns with all new stats and numbers. Rather than simply comparing each show to the previous weeks I've now added a rolling 4-week average for ratings, a year-to-year comparison for the most recent week and a simple week-to-week comparison. That's it, it's a more streamlined presentation than ever, and at least for the time being we're only focusing on P2+ (total viewers) and P18-49 ratings, ignoring the

This was an exciting week for TV ratings, Smackdown got pre-empted to FS1, Raw had their post-Hell in a Cell show and NXT promoted their...

Hello and welcome back to the most comprehensive ratings discussion on the internet. This week was not a major show for any of the...