The big competition on cable was the season premiere of MTV's The Challenge, which averaged 660,000 viewers but led cable television with a 0.38 rating in the 18-49 demo. The big drop for Dynamite was in that demo, where the show drew a 0.35 rating. That's down 25.5 percent from last week. The actual viewership in the demo was 454,000 viewers, down from the 593,000 viewers that Dynamite averaged in the category last week. The drop in that demo of 139,000 viewers was actually higher than the overall drop of 123,000 viewers.
