RAW:

Hr 1 - 2.20
Hr 2 - 2.09
Hr 3 - 1.85

Avg - 2.05 million
(credit - showbuzzdaily)

Most Watched on YT:
Seth/AOP attack Rey - 1.3 million
RKO on AJ - 1.1 million
Lana/Lashley Proposal - 694k

Wouldn't be surprised if the Gauntlet match drove away a ton of viewers.

Not only was the match itself not that good, it was also one of the biggest wastes of an hour in years. Double whammy of not having an actual winner and Rollins making it all completely meaningless when he simply named himself as Rey's next challenger.

Hr 3 of RAW was #11 in the demos

Last night's WWE Backstage episode didn't rank in ShowBuzz Daily's Top 150 shows for Tuesday.

Lowest ranked show in terms of key demo was a 0.5 meaning Backstage did less than that. Lowest ranked show in terms of viewership was 104k meaning its possible Backstage could have also done less than that.

For some comparisons, last week's episode did 127k viewers, #128 ranking, and a 0.6 in the key demo.

Backstage ended up with 95k viewers

Results for last night's AEW and NXT episodes:

AEW got 683k viewers while NXT got 795k and also won several other notable demos for the first time since the Wednesday Night War started.

Rankings and actual demo numbers haven't been released yet by ShowBuzz Daily.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NXT wins the night with 795,000 vs. AEW Dynamite 683,000 live &amp; same-night-DVR viewers. More details soon at <a href="https://t.co/b30cDz6YY1">https://t.co/b30cDz6YY1</a>. NXT also wins adult and young male demographics for first time across the board.</p>&mdash; Pro Wrestling Torch (@PWTorch) <a href="https://twitter.com/PWTorch/status/1207769933691719682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Soo far WWE's tactic of stunting AEW's growth by having NXT eat into their viewership has been working very well since they promoted NXT on the main brand for Survivor Series. Its also come at the cost of those lost viewers from AEW not jumping over en masse to NXT but WWE never cared about that and why the overall Wednesday audience has shrunk a lot more than it has grown.

Rankings went #27 and a 0.27 key demo rating for NXT compared to #30 and a 0.25 key demo rating for AEW.

NXT's biggest wins were with Females 18-49 (+0.6), Males 12-34 (+0.4), and the 50+ demo (+0.9). AEW's biggest win was Males 18-49 (+0.3).

Here's the full chart:

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Alaskan Bush People dominating NXT and AEW

AEW fading. Should be on the WWE Network by 2021.

I'd watch a show about Eric Bischoff and his family moving to Alaska.

Alaskan Bisch People, make it happen.

The thing is, AEW will end up with 500k+ via on Demand. I just want to point out that I use Sling and regularly DVR Dynamite and I am not able to fast forward the commercials.

You are correct @ Jordan X.

AEW is doing fine, is a good product and will continue to do fine in the forseeable future IMO.

Does that mean they live in bushes, or are these relatives of George W Bush that happen to live in Alaska?

Either way, I'm intrigued.

IDK either but also VERY intrigued!

Only problem is live viewers are what matter the most to advertisers and AEW more than NXT needs the stronger live viewership, especially in the key demos.

If NXT fails on tv, WWE can just put it back on the Network to help strength the appeal of the service. If AEW fails on tv, they don't have a similar option available and instead either go belly up or if lucky, land on a worse tv network.

Lol they can't count people who taped the show. It just means there was something better on to watch.

AEW getting desperate

I tape both shows and watch both later on.

Also Vince will probably bring in Bushwhackers 2000 or something

Smackdown went back up:


Hr 1 - 2.49
Hr 2 - 2.34

Avg - 2.42 million
(credit - showbuzzdaily)


Most Watched on YT:

Miz/DBry vs Corbin/Ziggler - 940k
Mandy kisses Otis - 513k
Sasha taunts Lacey Evan's daughter - 485k


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Weekly TV Ratings for the big four:

SD - 2.42 million
RAW - 2.05 million
NXT - 795k
AEW - 683k

RAW:

Hr 1 - 1.96
Hr 2 - 1.86
Hr 3 - 1.69

Avg - 1.84 million
(credit - showbuzzdaily)


Most Watched on YT:

Seth/AOP attack Rey/Samoa Joe - 1.1 million
Rusev vs No Way Jose - 858k
R-Truth/Tozawa/Santa Claus - 411k


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Not surprised since they faced a triple whammy of very tough sports competition, being on near Christmas, and last week's show being very bad overall.

Also Love & Hip Hop being back for the past few weeks has hurt RAW's rankings.

NXT probably going to suffer in ratings as well tomorrow since its facing off against NBA's most hyped up Christmas game of the night.

Don't forget taped show as well.

Besides, it's pretty clear at this point that Vince got his Billion dollar contracts and threw in the towel.

Tuesday's episode of WWE Backstage ended up doing 153k viewers, #124 ranking, and a 0.5 in the key demo.

For some comparisons, last week's episode did 95k viewers but did not rank in Showbuzz's Top 150 shows.

NXT's Christmas episode ended up doing 831,000 viewers, #29 ranking, and a 0.22 in the key demo.

Viewership went up compared to last week but the other two were down.

SD

Hr 1 - 2.54
Hr 2 - 2.34

Avg - 2.44


credit - showbuzzdaily


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AEW should try starting a ratings war with Main Event. It's more their level.

RAW:

Hr 1 - 2.53
Hr 2 - 2.47
Hr 3 - 2.33

Avg - 2.44 million
(credit - showbuzzdaily)


Most Watched on YT:
Liv Morgan returns - 2.1 million
Orton/AJ - 1.4 million
KO/Joe battle Seth/AOP - 684k

RAW rebounding from the Christmas week low was expected but also being up compared to 2 weeks ago is the real improvement.

Also helped that the competition was very weak since nothing outside of sports hit over 2 million for viewers or were a real threat in the key demo stuff for the Top 10.

That's a fucking surprising number for Raw.

I wonder if it was aided by the fact that aside from NFL Sunday, networks put fuck all on TV during the week between Christmas and New Year.

Probably, but you can also imagine people just fucking around on their phones. But that doesn't hurt.

Tuesday's episode of WWE Backstage ended up doing 97k viewers, #124 ranking, and a 0.3 in the key demo.

For some comparisons, last week's episode did 153k viewers, #124 ranking, and a 0.5 in the key demo.

Results for last night's AEW and NXT episodes:

AEW got 967k viewers, #13 ranking, and a 0.36 in the key demo ranking.

NXT got 548k viewers, #66 ranking, and a 0.15 in the key demo ranking.

Considering the monster numbers from the college bowl games and ESPN's college football shows, AEW getting almost 1 million is pretty good. Same for NXT getting over 500k for a mostly throw-away show. Also AEW and NXT got really lucky the Rose Bowl wasn't the night game since that one was over 5 million higher than the Sugar Bowl (15.6 vs. 9.9 million).

This was probably AEW's best chance for a knockout. I wouldn't say they quite got there, but it's far from a bad number by any stretch. But it might be their best for quite a while.

SD has a lower viewership than RAW

Hr 1 - 2.47
Hr 2 - 2.37

Avg - 2.42 million


SD struggled in the demos as well this week, not as many categories in green.

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Lana and Rusev > Roman Reigns

Abysmal YT optics for SD next day, usually a segment or two is at 1 or 2 million by now


Sheamus Returns - 706k
Usos save Roman - 415k
John Morrison appears - 361k

Fiend attacking Dbry only at 281k

Womp Womp!

Smackdown getting hammered in the key demos was very bad since FOX needs those numbers to be very high in order to come close to breaking even with ad costs.