NXT Ratings For 8/19 See Major Increase With No AEW Competition
August 20, 2020Last night NXT viewership went up with no AEW Dynamite up against it.
According to ShowBuzz Daily, last night WWE NXT drew 853,000 viewers. That is up roughly 28% from last week’s show that drew 619,000 viewers. This week’s show saw a 243,000 viewer increase. Remember that there was no AEW Dynamite last night to go up against NXT as they have been moved to Saturday this week due to the NBA playoffs on TNT. Overall for non-news programming on cable, the night was won by the Mavericks vs Clippers NBA game that was in the normal Dynamite time slot.
As far as the demographics, in the 18-49 demo, NXT drew a .24. In the 18-34 demo, NXT dew a .09 and in the 50+ it drew a .42. In that important 18-49 demo, NXT was ranked 23rd for the night.
Top 5 WWE NXT YouTube Highlights
- Adam Cole vows to end Pat McAfee (over 328,000 views)
- Bronson Reed emerges from a melee (over 205,000 views)
- Rhea Ripley & Shotzi Blackheart vs Mercedes Martinez & Aliyah (over 151,000 views)
- Dakota Kai gets the last laugh over Io Shirai before TakeOver XXX (over 136,000 views)
- Johnny Gargano w/Candice LaRae vs Ridge Holland (over 121,000 views)
For more on this week’s NXT, check out full WWE NXT Review we did last night.
