AEW Collision Viewership Down Almost 50% With NXT No Mercy Competition

AEW Collision brought the best show they could as a go-home for WrestleDream. They had had NXT No Mercy as direct competition, so how did the viewership pan out?

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According to Alfred Konuwa, the September 30th episode of AEW Collision brought in a fast-national number of 304,000 viewers. They also drew 93k viewers in the 18 to 49 demographic. That was a huge drop from last week, but they were also head-to-head with NXT’s No Mercy event.

AEW Collision drew the biggest viewership since July for their September 23rd show. The company pulled in 562,000 viewers. That was their highest viewership in months.

The September 16th episode of WWE SmackDown drew an overnight average of 442,000 viewers, and 190k of those viewers were in the 18 to 49 demographic. That is down from the previous week.

AEW Collision drew 476,000 viewers for their September 9th episode. They also brought in a .15 in the 18 to 49 demographic. They also had competition for a couple big college football games.

The September 2nd episode of AEW Collision drew a fast national viewership of 324,000. This number included 129,000 in the key 18 to 49 demographic. Both of those numbers are down since last week. They also had WWE Payback competition.

The August 26th episode of AEW Collision brought in 552,000 viewers, with a .16 in the 18 to 49 demographic. This was a go-home episode before AEW All In London in Wembley Stadium.

AEW Collision’s August 19th episode drew 454K viewers, this was down 5% from last week. Of that number, 201,000 of those viewers were in the treasured 18 to 49 demographic.

The August 12th edition of AEW Collision brought in 476,000 viewers. Of that number, 223k were in the 18 to 49 demographic, earning a .17 in the 18 to 49 demographic.

AEW Collision’s August 5th episode, the same where they were in direct competition with SummerSlam, drew an audience of 417,000, with a .13 in the 18 to 49 demographic.

The July 29th episode of AEW Collision pulled in 739,000 viewers, with a .27 in the 18 to 49 demographic. That was a bit of a boost from last week’s flat number.The fast national numbers for AEW Collision’s July 22nd episode brought in 579,000 viewers, with 213,000 of those in the treasured 18 to 49 demographic.

The July 14th episode of AEW Collision brought in 579,000 viewers. Of that number, 258k was in the key 18 to 49 demographic. That was a bit lower than the previous week, but it was also a bit stable.

The July 7th episode of AEW Collision drew a viewership of 580,000, with a .21 in the 18 to 49 demographic. The July 1st episode of AEW Collision drew 452,000 viewers, and a .13 in the 18 to 49 demographic. AEW Collision’s June 24th episode was watched by 595,000 viewers on average, including about 272,000 aged 18 to 49, for a 0.21 P18-49 rating.

The June 17th premiere episode of AEW Collision brought in 816,000 viewers, with a .30 in the 18 to 49 demographic. We will have to see if AEW can keep up Collision’s viewership. If they’re wanting around 500k to 600k viewers a week, then they might have hit their sweet spot.

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