Grand Slam Gives AEW Dynamite Highest Viewership Since February 2023

It is Thursday and you know what that means and the ratings for AEW Dynamite are out. It was AEW Dynamite Grand Slam on Wednesday night highlighted by the AEW World Championship match. Plus there were three other title matches as well. This was a good show and the numbers proved it.  Time to dive in.

AEW Dynamite Sees Highest Viewership Since February 2023

AEW Dynamite was live in New York City for Grand Slam. Tony Khan made sure this was a special show with four championship matches highlighted by Samoa Joe challenging MJF for the AEW World Championship. In addition, the ROH and NJPW Strong Titles were on the line, plus the AEW International and Women’s championships as well.

The show opened with the ROH-NJPW Strong title match and the show closed with the AEW World Title match. The AEW International Championship match had some scary moments while the AEW Women’s title match delivered some great moments from Toni Storm. Mix in Sammy Guevara’s heel turn on Chris Jericho as they paid homage to Jericho/Shawn Michaels from Wrestlemania 19.

AEW Collision this past Saturday got 467,000 viewers even up against college football. The demo did a .15 rating up from the preview week.

The September 20th edition of AEW Dynamite week’s show was viewed by 984000 people and did a .36 in the 18-49 demo.

AEW Dynamite last night on TBS:
984,000 viewers
P18-49 rating: 0.36

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Both the viewership and demo rose from last week to some of the best numbers in a year for AEW Dynamite. Dynamite Grand Slam was number one on cable for the fifth time in the last six weeks. As reported by Sports TVRatings, “Grand Slam” was Dynamite’s highest P18-49 since Sep 14, 2022. It has the highest viewership since February 22 of this year.

AEW Dynamite continues to be in its normal range between 800k and 900k. Another loaded show knocked the numbers up really high. An excellent show from start to finish. And as Jericho said on the radio let’s talk about the positives of what is going on not the negatives.

Three different quarter-hours (not counting the overrun) for last night’s AEW Dynamite averaged just over 1 million viewers. The high point for P18-49 was the last full quarter-hour with MJF vs. Samoa Joe main event. Viewership continued growing for the 4-minute overrun.

Wrestlenomics: Dynamite Grand Slam did 3 quarters that reached over 1 Million viewers. 1. Peak viewership was 1.017 million in Q4 for the Jericho/Guevara angle. 2. Q8 featuring MJF vs. Samoa Joe drew 1.014 million. 3. Q2 with 1.004 million for the Eddie/Claudio finish.

AEW Grand Slam ratings for each year:

2021: 1.273M, 0.48 P18-49

2022: 1.039M, 0.35

2023: 984k, 0.36

AEW Dynamite is in a good place.

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Here’s a look at the AEW Dynamite viewership and ratings in the 18-49 demo over the past year:

• Sep 21, 1,039,000/.35
• Sep 28, 990,000/.34
• Oct 5, 1,038,000/.33
• Oct 12, 983,000/.32
• Oct 18, 752,000/.26
• Oct 26, 997,000/.32
• Nov 2, 911,000/.29
• Nov 9, 930,000/.32
• Nov 16, 818,000/.28
• Nov 23, 880,000/.32
• Nov 30, 870,000/.26
• Dec 7, 840,000/.26
• Dec, 14 950,000/.33
• Dec, 21 957,000/.30
• Dec, 28 876,000/.28
• Jan, 4 864,000/.26
• Jan, 11 967,000/.33
• Jan, 18 969,000/.31
• Jan, 25 1,003,000/.32
• Feb, 1 901,000/.31
• Feb, 8 899,000/.30
• Feb, 16 824,000/.27
• Feb 22 1,028,000/.35
• Mar 1 833,000/.27
• Mar 8 858,000/.29
• Mar 15 852,000/.27
• Mar 22 954,000/.33
• Mar 29 833,000/.28
• Apr 5 877,000/.30
• Apr 12 866,000/.28
• Apr 19 830,000/.28
• Apr 26 8630,000/.28
• May 3 776,000/.28
• May 10 877,000/.32
• May 17 814,000/.28
• May 24 846,000/.32
• May 31 923,000/.29
• Jun 7 903,000/.33
• Jun 14 832,000/.30
• Jun 21 902,000/.33
• Jun 28 809,000/.24
• Jul 5 855,000/.29
• Jul 12 825,000/.29
• Jul 19 953,000/.34
• Jul 26 898,000/ .29
• Aug 2 894,000/.31
• Aug 9 847,000/.29
• Aug 16 874,000/.32
• Aug 23 870,000/.32
• Aug 30 871,000/.31
• Sep 6 874,000/.31 

What are your thoughts on the show?