Wednesday night's episode of AEW Dynamite
averaged 774,000 viewers on TBS, down 14.1 percent from last week. It's the lowest audience total for a Wednesday night airing of the show since June 15, 2022.
Dynamite drew a 0.24 rating in the 18-49 demo. That's down 22.6 percent from last week. It's tied for Dynamite's lowest rating of 2023 and also matches the lowest rating the show has done in that category on its regular night since June 24, 2020.
Dynamite went head-to-head with the NBA for the first time since June, and NBA competition has typically had a negative effect on ratings for AEW. Dynamite finished sixth on the cable sports charts for the day. Every program that beat it was either NBA games or basketball-related programming.
This week, Dynamite had lower viewership than WWE NXT's Halloween Havoc night one (774,000 viewers to NXT's 787,000). Dynamite did have a higher rating in the 18-49 demo (0.24 to NXT's 0.21).
As compared to the same week in 2022, Dynamite's overall audience was down 22.4 percent while its 18-49 rating was down 25 percent.
Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for Dynamite, along with the 10-week averages in both categories. This week's episode was down 9.4 percent in overall viewers and down 22.6 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.