5 Things AEW want you to forget in 2020

#3 AEW Dynamite's audience has dropped 50% since their debut on TNT

It hasn't been the same since the premiere

After AEW debuted in October, the ratings were released. AEW debuted to 1.4 million viewers and each week has seen a decline in viewership. While they did beat NXT for seven straight weeks, the WWE 'developmental brand' slowly caught up and ate into AEW's viewership.

What's more is that NXT destroyed AEW in their final episode of 2019 when the two went head-to-head. On the December 18th episode, AEW drew only 683,000 average viewers while NXT drew over 795,000 viewers.

To understand how the ratings have steadily declined since the debut episode, take a look below.

• Week 1 - 1.4 Million viewers
• Week 2 - 1.14 Million viewers
• Week 3 - 1.014 Million viewers
• Week 4 - 969,000 viewers
• Week 5 - 759,000 viewers
• Week 6 - 822,000 viewers
• Week 7 - 957,000 viewers
• Week 8 - 893,000 viewers
• Week 9 - 663,000 viewers
• Week 10 - 851,000 viewers
• Week 11 - 778,000 viewers
• Week 12 - 683,000 viewers

While viewership has been halved, it doesn't mean that the ratings have continued to decline. What is most likely happening is that NXT is drawing viewers from AEW rather than the other way around.

All this means is that AEW can improve going forward as TNT's original expectations were actually for 500,000 - 600,000 viewers. It'll be interesting how things develop in 2020.