The TV ratings and viewership data are in for the Oct. 15 episodes of AEW Dynamite on TBS… and the Oct. 15 episode of Collision.
With WrestleDream (and a Tailgate Brawl pre-show on TNT) on Saturday night,
AEW aired a truncated version of their usual Saturday night program after its usual Wednesday night one in its regular time spot. Nielsen, via Programming Insider, tracked it as the usual two-hour Dynamite from 8-9 p.m. Eastern, and a one-hour Collision from 10-11 p.m. ET.
Dynamite drew 534,000 viewers with a .11 rating in the 18-49 year old demographic. That’s way up from the previous week’s episode, which was bumped to Tuesday by baseball, and sent into its annual rematch with WWE NXT — specifically 66% in overall audience, and 57% in the demo.
The Collision hour then hung onto a decent chunk of those overall viewers with an audience of 400K, and held the demo with a .11 rating. Collision was already an anomaly as the only wrestling show seemingly unaffected by Nielsen’s new model for calculating TV ratings, and a pre-empted edition making huge episode-to-episode jumps like this (40% and 83%, respectively) won’t make it any easier to understand what’s going on.
Regarding this set of numbers though, the main live competition AEW’s show(s) faced came from the baseball postseason. FS1’s coverage of ALCS game 3 led the night on all of television with a 1.01 rating from 4.58 million viewers, while NBC’s 8 p.m. episode of Chicago Med was the night’s most watched show with an audience of 5.66 million with a .39 in the demo. Dynamite and Collision came in eighth on cable.
Here’s a breakdown of AEW Dynamite’s television viewership and rating in the 18-49 demo over the last year:
- Oct. 8, 2024*: 329,000 / .10
- Oct. 16: 633,000 / .20
- Oct. 23: 637,000 / .19
- Oct. 30: 628,000 / .19
- Nov. 6: 523,000 / .16
- Nov. 13: 666,000 / .22
- Nov. 20: 640,000 / .20
- Nov. 27: 536,000 / .15
- Dec. 4: 586,000 / .17
- Dec. 11: 594,000 / .17
- Dec. 18: 625,000 / .19
- Dec. 25: 574,000 / .18
- Jan. 1, 2025: 588,000 / .16
- Jan. 8: 615,000 / .17
- Jan. 15: 679,000 / .18
- Jan. 22: 655,000 / .19
- Jan. 29: 604,000 / .17
- Feb. 5: 605,000 / .17
- Feb. 12: 579,000 / .16
- Feb. 19: 563,000 / .17
- Feb. 26: 598,000 / .18
- Mar. 5: 600,000 / .13
- Mar. 12: 628,000 / .16
- Mar. 19: 658,000 / .19
- Mar. 26: 663,000 / .17
- April 2: 594,000 / .16
- April 9: 659,000 / .17
- April 16: 624,000 / .17
- April 23: 521,000 / .14
- April 30: 629,000 / .16
- May 7: 629,000 / .16
- May 14: 682,000 / .17
- May 21: 575,000 / .15
- May 28: 636,000 / .16
- June 4: 655,000 / .18
- June 11: 597,000 / .17
- June 18: 736,000 / .21
- June 25: 613,000 / .15
- July 2: 584,000 / .16
- July 9: 637,000 / .16
- July 16: 588,000 / .15
- July 23: 608,000 / .14
- July 30: 612,000 / .15
- Aug. 6: 711,000 / .18
- Aug. 13: 690,000 / .17
- Aug. 20: 565,000 / .16
- Aug. 27: 585,000 / .13
- Sept. 3: 472,000 / .11
- Sept. 10: 584,000 / .12
- Sept. 17: 667,000 / .14
- Sept. 24: 638,000 / .14
- Oct. 1º: 465,000 / .09
- Oct. 7*: 321,000 / .07
- Oct. 15: 534,000 / .11
* Aired outside its normal Wednesday night primetime slot
º Nielsen began using Panel + Big Data calculation
And our rundown of the past year’s worth of Collisions:
- Oct. 5**: 269K / .05
- Oct. 19: 346K / .10
- Oct. 26: 321K / .09
- Nov. 2†: 349K / .09
- Nov. 9: 322K / .10
- Nov. 16: 356K / .11
- Nov. 30*†: 144K / .03
- Dec. 7: 278K / .07
- Dec. 14: 246K / .09
- Dec. 21: 635K / .20
- Jan. 4: 345K / .09
- Jan. 11: 337K / .09
- Jan. 17: 342K / .10
- Jan. 25**: 250K / .07
- Feb. 1**: 197K / .04
- Feb. 8: 387K / .10
- Feb. 15*: 502K / .21 (Grand Slam Australia)
- Feb. 22: 421K / .12
- March 1**: 280K / .06
- March 8: 363K / .10
- March 15: 408K / .10
- March 22*: 554K / .20
- March 23*: 584K / .22
- March 29: 339K / .09
- April 5: 335K / .08
- April 12: 455K / .12
- April 17*: 353K / .08
- April 26*: 707K / .21
- May 3*: 341K / .06
- May 8*: 382K / .09
- May 17: 398K / .08
- May 22*: 353K / .08
- May 31*: 504K / .18
- June 4*: 380K / .10
- June 11*: 397K / .09
- June 21: 426K / .10
- June 26*: 285K / .08
- July 5: 310K / .10
- July 10*: 323K / .06
- July 19: 348K / .06
- July 26: 327K / .08
- July 31*: 409K / .10
- Aug. 9: 423K / .08
- Aug. 16: 268K / .06
- Aug. 23: 281K / .07
- Aug. 30: 195K / .04
- Sept. 6: 300K / .07
- Sept. 13: 235K / .05
- Sept. 20:*†: 184K / .04
- Sept. 27†º: 248K / .05
- Oct. 4: 226K / .03
- Oct. 11†: 286K / .06
- Oct. 15*: 400K / .11
* Aired outside its usual Saturday 8-10 p.m. ET primetime slot and/or on a network other than TNT
** Ran directly opposite a WWE show or event
† Ran the same day as a WWE event
º Nielsen began using Big Data + Panel methodology
For complete results from the latest Dynamite and Collision, check out our live blog click here. To read a recap & review of the episodes, click here. For video highlights, click here.
