The Ratings Thread - a lot of people watched wrestling on Super Tuesday, sort of

[boredmale]

Same reason USA wants RAW at 3 hours even though it's harmful for the rating and the product... Broadcasters need content badly, and pro wrestling is relatively cheap on the broadcaster's end.

But it's a case they doing the Collison and Rampage back to back I assume during NBA/NHL playoff time.

I would just air Rampage on Fridays before or after the games to split it up

 

[GKJ]

I really don't get why TBS/TNT are airing these shows back to back, they basically are going to tire out the audience. AEW really needs to cut down the hours of programming each week(by at least 1 hour). At worse they could dedicate the Friday Night show to Women(ratings can't do much worse at this point)

Keeps getting preempted for NBA and NHL

 

[boredmale]

Keeps getting preempted for NBA and NHL

I get that, but they still don't have to air them back to back

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

Best thing to happen would be Rampage becoming either women's centric or ROH but the network doesn't want that.

I wonder if that might change with Turner losing the NBA.

 

[GKJ]

I get that, but they still don't have to air them back to back

There’s no other real time to do it. You’re asking the audience to watch the show that doesn’t start until 10pm on a day (if not time) other than its normal slot. May as well put it in when your audience is already there.

 

[boredmale]

Best thing to happen would be Rampage becoming either women's centric or ROH but the network doesn't want that.

As I said above I don't think the ratings can get any worse if they changed Friday Nights(1 hr) to All Women. If I was TBS/TNT I would got o Tony and say make this hour all female and find somebody else to book/produce it to lighten your load.

I also don't get what they have against an ROH show. It's not like AEW has high brand reckonition and losing that title will hurt the show. Once again maybe do a sperate show and TNT can ask Tony to be hands off for the most part booking it

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

As I said above I don't think the ratings can get any worse if they changed Friday Nights(1 hr) to All Women. If I was TBS/TNT I would got o Tony and say make this hour all female and find somebody else to book/produce it to lighten your load.

I also don't get what they have against an ROH show. It's not like AEW has high brand reckonition and losing that title will hurt the show. Once again maybe do a sperate show and TNT can ask Tony to be hands off for the most part booking it

Could even just change the name from Rampage to AEW Ring of Honor or Ring of Honor presented by AEW or something. Rampage is no better, arguably worse than whats probably on ROH anyway.

 

[Khelandros]

 

[Jussi]

 

[Emperoreddy]

I read someone suggest that maybe having two touring shows instead of one is part of the attendance problem

 

[GKJ]

I read someone suggest that maybe having two touring shows instead of one is part of the attendance problem

They should have an advantage with WWE going abroad all the time now.

AEW seems to go to Canada a lot too, they just went Winnipeg-Edmonton-Vancouver.

Advance for next Saturday sounds like it’s awful too, and it’s the night before the PPV. On a holiday weekend.

 

[boredmale]

I read someone suggest that maybe having two touring shows instead of one is part of the attendance problem

AEW really needs to start booking smaller arenas. Maybe if Tony wasn't the son of a billionaire he might worry about stuff like wasting money when you don't have to(larger arenas cost way more than small ones)

 

[yahhockey]

Hopefully they get the message that Las Vegas isn't a good AEW market and certainly shouldn't be receiving PPVs. It had a couple good events but the past couple years have fallen off a cliff in terms of demand. Somewhat like AEW in general but probably worse than the average decline in attendance.

 

[Emperoreddy]

To me it does seem like the introduction of collusion has spilt the live audience up. Dynamite was pretty consistent in averaging between 5-6K and has had a steady drop off since Collusion premiered.

 

[Khelandros]

 

[GKJ]

To me it does seem like the introduction of collusion has spilt the live audience up. Dynamite was pretty consistent in averaging between 5-6K and has had a steady drop off since Collusion premiered.

They don’t run those shows in the same markets though.

 

[Khelandros]

 

[Khelandros]

 

[Emperoreddy]

NXT's YOY growth is really quite impressive. Especially when every other wrestling show has dropped or at best remained about even. 18-49 especially, they really have been making strides getting a younger audience in. CW is probably going to be happy about it.

Also Lyra vs Io being the peak ratings for raw this week warms my heart

 

[Khelandros]