The TV ratings and viewership data are in for the Dec. 17 episode of AEW Dynamite on TBS… and the Dec. 17 episode of Collision.
With the College Football Playoff taking priority for Turner Sports last week, AEW shifted half of their Saturday show to Wednesday afternoon and made it a Holiday Bash. The special episode was tracked as a normal Dynamite and a one hour Collision… and did a little worse than usual Dynamite, and a little better than a Saturday night Collision.
Per Wrestling Observer, from
8-10 p.m. (Eastern) Dynamite drew 511,000 viewers and did a .08 rating in the 18-49 year old demographic. That’s a barely noticeable 1% week-to-week drop in total audience, but it’s an 11% dip in the demo number. It also ties Dynamite’s lowest rating on a Wednesday night in its history.
When Collision came on in for an hour in the 10 p.m. hour, it had an audience of 333K, and did a .05 rating. We still haven’t seen numbers for the previous Collision that aired Dec. 13, but it’s up from the last Wednesday edition — Nov. 19’s Blood & Guts — by a little more than 3% in overall viewership. But it was almost 29% down in the demo from that mid-week show.
A full ratings report from last Wednesday still isn’t out, but President Trump addressed the nation after 9 p.m., and figures to have easily been the night’s most watch programming.
Here’s a breakdown of AEW Dynamite’s television viewership and rating in the 18-49 demo over the last year:
- Dec. 11, 2024: 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
- Oct. 22: 477,000 / .08
- Oct. 29: 459,000 / .08
- Nov. 5: 497,000 / .09
- Nov. 12: 600,000 / .15
- Nov. 19: 491,000 / .10
- Nov. 26: 512,000 / .10
- Dec. 3: 496,000 / ???
- Dec. 10: 516,000 / .09
- Dec. 17: 511,000 / .08
* 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:
- Dec. 14, 2024: 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
- Oct. 25**: 228K / .04
- Nov. 1**: 217K / .03
- Nov. 8: 288K / .06
- Nov. 15: 219K / .03
- Nov. 19*: 322K / .07
- Nov. 27*: 285K / .06
- Dec. 6**: 267K / .03
- Dec. 13: ???
- Dec. 17: 333,000 / .05
* 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 Holiday Bash edition of 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.
