AEW Collision ratings up, tops 500k viewers

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 504,000 viewers on TNT, up 42.8 percent from the previous week. After two straight weeks of going against WWE premium live events, this is Collision’s best audience total since September 23.

Collision drew a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s up 55.6 percent from last week and is also the show’s highest number since September 23. It’s the lowest rating the show has done on any week without WWE competition airing on the same day, although the overall audience is the ninth highest out of the 18 episodes that have aired so far.

Collision was headlined by a TNT Championship match between Christian Cage and Bryan Danielson. The main competition was a big college football game on NBC with Notre Dame vs. USC that averaged 6.4 million viewers and drew a 1.53 rating in 18-49. Games on CBS, ESPN, Fox, and ABC also aired head-to-head, averaging nearly 10 million viewers between them.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for Collision, as well as the 10-week averages in both categories. This week’s show was up 13.1 percent in overall viewers and steady in 18-49 as compared to recent weeks.

AEW Collision ratings up with earlier start time

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 353,000 viewers on TNT, up eight percent from the previous week. The show aired one hour earlier than usual and got a head start on WWE Fastlane, which began at 8 p.m. Eastern. It’s the third-lowest audience total Collision has done to date.

Collision drew a 0.09 rating in the 18-49 demo, up 12.5 percent from last week. The show also faced competition from college football and the MLB playoffs.

The previous week’s Collision also went against WWE competition. It aired against NXT No Mercy. The five lowest-rated Collision episodes, both in terms of overall viewers and the 18-49 demo, have all taken place on Saturdays where WWE ran a premium live event.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for Collision, as well as the 10-week averages in both categories. This week’s show was down 27.1 percent in overall viewers and down 43.8 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.

AEW Collision draws record low ratings against NXT No Mercy

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 327,000 viewers on TNT, down 41.8 percent from the previous week. It’s the lowest audience total in the history of the show.

Collision drew a 0.08 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s down 55.6 percent from last week and is also the lowest rating in the show’s history. Other than a May 13 episode of Rampage that aired on a Friday afternoon, it’s the lowest 18-49 rating for any first-run AEW programming in history.

The show had the usual heavy college football competition but also went head-to-head with NXT No Mercy. The four lowest-rated Collision episodes have all come on the same day as a WWE premium live event.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for Collision, along with the 10-week averages in both categories. This week’s show was down 36.3 percent in overall viewers and down 52.9 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.

AEW Collision draws best ratings since July

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 562,000 viewers on TNT, up 11.8 percent from the previous week. It’s the best audience total for the show since July 29 and is the seventh-highest of the 15 episodes that have aired so far.

Collision drew a 0.18 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s up 20 percent from last week and is also the show’s best rating since July 29. It’s tied for the sixth-best rating that Collision has ever done in the demo. 

College football dominated the charts. In fact, it was the most watched Saturday for college football in history outside of rivalry week in late November. The biggest game, Notre Dame vs. Ohio State, aired head-to-head with Collision and drew NBC’s largest audience for a college football game in over 30 years.

Collision was headlined by a Texas death match between Bryan Danielson and Ricky Starks.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for Collision, as well as the 10-week averages in both categories. This week’s show was up 9.1 percent in total viewers and up 5.9 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.

AEW Collision viewership down slightly, 18-49 demo rating steady

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 467,000 viewers on TNT, down 1.9 percent from the previous week. It’s the fourth-lowest audience total the show has ever done and the lowest for an episode that didn’t air on the same day as a WWE pay-per-view.

Collision drew a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s the same rating as last week. It’s also the fourth-lowest rating in the show’s history and the lowest for an episode that wasn’t on the same day as a WWE PPV.

The TV charts were dominated by college football with games on three of the four broadcast networks as well as several cable stations.

Collision had steady growth throughout the episode in terms of the quarter hour ratings and actually peaked for the main event, which is unusual for AEW programming. The three-minute overrun hit nearly 600,000 viewers for the ending of Kris Statlander vs. Britt Baker.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for Collision, along with the 10-week averages in both categories. This week’s show was down 11.3 percent in overall viewers and down 16.7 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.

AEW Collision ratings up despite strong college football competition

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 476,000 viewers on TNT, up 38 percent from the previous week’s series-low. This is tied for the fourth-lowest audience total the show has done since debuting in June.

Collision finished 14th on the cable charts with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s up 36.4 percent from last week and is also the fourth-lowest rating the show has done. The three lowest ratings all happened on Saturdays where there was also a WWE pay-per-view.

The cable charts were dominated by college football. Eleven of the top 12 shows were either games or football-related programming. The only exception was the women’s US Open final, which finished third with a 0.72 rating. All five broadcast networks were also airing college football, although none of those games did as well as the near eight million viewers that ESPN drew for its Alabama vs. Texas game on cable.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for Collision, along with the 10-week averages in both categories. This week’s show was down 9.2 percent in overall viewers and down 11.8 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.

AEW Collision draws lowest ratings in show history

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 345,000 viewers on TNT, down 37.5 percent from the previous week. It’s the lowest audience total the show has drawn in its brief history.

Collision drew a 0.11 rating in the 18-49 demo, down 31.3 percent from the prior week. That’s also the lowest rating in the history of the show. It matches the 18-49 rating that Rampage did the night before.

The episode was Collision’s go-home show for All Out. It went head-to-head with several college football games on both network TV and cable. The games dominated the charts, as they will for the rest of the year. Collision also aired at the same time as WWE Payback on Peacock. The previous lows for Collision also occurred when the show aired on the same day as a WWE pay-per-view event.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for Collision, as well as the 10-week averages in both categories. This week’s show was down 37.2 percent in overall viewers and down 38.9 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.

AEW Collision viewership up, 18-49 rating down for All In go-home episode

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 552,000 viewers on TNT, up 14.5 percent from the previous week. It’s the best audience total for the show since July 29.

The episode was taped in advance last Wednesday. The increased viewership came despite the fact that Collision aired head-to-head with a NASCAR race on NBC that averaged 3.8 million viewers and drew a 0.56 rating in 18-49, as well as MLB on Fox that averaged two million viewers and a 0.34 demo rating. The competition will not get any easier in coming weeks with college football taking over Saturday nights for the rest of the year. 

Collision drew a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demo, down 5.9 percent from last week. It’s the third-lowest rating the show has done to date and is the lowest rating for an episode that didn’t take place on the same day as a WWE pay-per-view.

The All In Countdown special that followed Collision averaged 247,000 viewers and did a 0.06 rating in the 18-49 demo.

Listed below are the overall viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for every episode of Collision that has aired to date. The 10-week average in both categories is also included.

AEW Collision viewership up slightly, 18-49 demo rating steady

Saturday’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 482,000 viewers on TNT, up 1.3 percent from the previous week. It’s the best audience total for the show since July 29 and is the seventh-highest viewership of the 10 episodes that have aired to date.

In the 18-49 demo, Collision ranked 13th on the cable charts with a 0.17 rating. That is the same rating Collision drew last week and ties the third-lowest in the show’s short history. 

Collision faced strong sports competition on the day, as it will for the rest of the year. The UFC 292 prelims aired head-to-head and topped the cable charts with a 0.51 rating in 18-49. The prelims averaged 1.235 million viewers. There were also several NFL preseason games and shoulder programming on the NFL Network that finished ahead of Collision.

Over its first 10 weeks, Collision has averaged slightly above 575,000 viewers and a 0.20 rating in the 18-49 demo.

Listed below are the overall viewership and 18-49 ratings for every episode of Collision to date:

AEW Collision ratings up, stays below 500k viewers

Saturday night’s AEW Collision averaged 476,000 viewers on TNT, up 14.2 percent from the previous week’s episode that went against WWE SummerSlam.

It’s the third-lowest audience of the nine Collision episodes that have aired to date and is the lowest of any episode that did not take place on the same day as a WWE pay-per-view. 

Collision finished 11th on the cable charts with a 0.17 rating in the 18-49 demo, up 30.8 percent from last week. Several NFL preseason games airing on the NFL Network finished ahead of the show, as well as Top Rank Boxing and the UFC, both on ESPN.

This was also the lowest 18-49 rating for any Collision episode that didn’t have WWE competition on the same day.

Rampage the night before finished seventh on the cable charts, despite drawing a lower 0.15 rating in 18-49, which shows how tough the Saturday competition was.

Listed below are the overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for every episode of Collision to date:

AEW Collision ratings drop against WWE SummerSlam

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision, which went head-to-head with WWE SummerSlam, averaged 417,000 viewers on TNT. That’s down 43.6 percent from the previous week and is the lowest audience total in the show’s eight-week history. 

Collision finished 16th on the cable charts with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s down 51.9 percent from last week and ties the July 1 episode, which also aired on the same day as a WWE pay-per-view (although not head-to-head), for the lowest rating the show has done to date.

In addition to SummerSlam, Collision also went against the UFC on ESPN which took the top two spots on the cable charts for the prelims and main card, both of which had portions go head-to-head with AEW.

Collision’s ratings were actually slightly down from Rampage the night before. The Rampage episode averaged 434,000 viewers and drew a 0.14 rating in 18-49. Collision’s numbers were less than half of what Dynamite did last Wednesday.

The biggest week-over-week drop was with males 18-34, which were down 72.3 percent. Females in that same age group were actually up 4.2 percent. That’s the only demo where the show had an increase from last week.

Listed below are the total viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for every episode of Collision that has aired to date:

AEW Collision draws best ratings since premiere episode

Saturday night’s AEW Collision averaged 739,000 viewers on TNT, up 19.6 percent from the previous week. It’s the highest audience total for the show since the premiere episode on June 17.

Collision drew a 0.27 rating in the 18-49 demo, which was up 50 percent from last week. That’s also the best number the show has done since the 0.31 rating it drew for the premiere.

Collision went head-to-head with the UFC 291 prelims which averaged more than a million viewers and drew a 0.30 rating on ABC. The prelims also aired on ESPN and ESPN+. Collision had the MLB on Fox as direct competition as well. The baseball game averaged more than two million viewers and drew a 0.35 rating in 18-49, so the competition was tougher than it’s been of late.

The biggest increase for Collision came with men 18-34, which were up 180.6 percent from last week. It’s Collision’s best viewership in that demo since the premiere. Collision was actually down 61.3 percent with females in that same age group, which is the only demo the show had a decrease in.

Listed below are the overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for every episode of Collision that has aired to date:

AEW Collision viewership up, 18-49 demo rating down

Saturday night’s AEW Collision averaged 618,000 viewers on TNT, up 6.7 percent from the previous week. It’s the second-highest audience total of the six episodes that have aired to date. 

Collision drew a 0.18 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s down 10 percent from last week and is the second-lowest rating the show has achieved so far, ahead of only the July 1 episode that aired on a holiday weekend.

Collision finished first on cable in its time slot in 18-49.

There was a 21 percent increase with people 18-34 which was offset by a 20.9 percent decrease with people 35-49.

The show went head-to-head with the MLB on Fox, which averaged 1.934 million viewers and drew a 0.31 rating in 18-49. For the first time since Collision started, it did not have head-to-head UFC competition as Saturday’s Fight Night was from England and aired earlier in the day.

Listed below are the viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for every episode of Collision that has aired to date:

AEW Collision ratings up for CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe

Saturday night’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 580,000 viewers on TNT, up 28.3 percent from the previous week’s Fourth of July weekend episode. This is the second-lowest audience total that Collision has drawn since premiering last month.

In the 18-49 demo, Collision finished fifth on cable with a 0.21 rating. That’s up 61.5 percent from last week and ties the second-highest rating the show has done of the four episodes that have aired so far.

Collision’s ratings were up from last week in all categories. The biggest increase was with males 18-34, where the audience was nearly six times higher than last week.

The episode was headlined by CM Punk defeating Samoa Joe in the semifinals of the men’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament. Punk didn’t wrestle on the previous week’s Collision but appeared on commentary for Joe’s match against Roderick Strong.

The show had stronger-than-usual competition this week, going head-to-head with the UFC 290 prelims on both ABC and ESPN. The ABC broadcast alone averaged 1.155 million viewers and drew a 0.33 rating in 18-49. MLB on Fox also aired head-to-head and averaged 2.2 million viewers and drew a 0.44 rating.

Listed below are the overall viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for all episodes of Collision that have aired to date.

AEW Collision ratings drop for week three

Saturday’s episode of AEW Collision averaged 452,000 viewers on TNT, down 24 percent from the previous week. It’s the lowest audience total of the three Collision episodes that have taken place to date.

Collision drew a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demo, which was down 38.1 percent from last week. That’s also the lowest rating for the show so far. The Collision numbers were almost identical to the 450,000 viewers and 0.13 demo rating that AEW Rampage did the night before.

This was the first Collision episode that CM Punk did not wrestle on, although he did join the commentary team for the main event. The show was taped earlier in the week and aired on the Saturday of a holiday weekend. It also took place after WWE’s Money in the Bank pay-per-view had already happened earlier in the day.

Collision’s ratings were down from the previous week in every demo. The biggest decline came with males 18-34, which were down 82 percent. Females in that same age group were only down 12.5 percent.

Listed below are the overall audience and 18-49 demo ratings for the first three weeks of AEW Collision: