The ratings and viewership data are in for the latest edition of WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event, which aired at the same time as the Jan. 24 episode of AEW Collision.
The second SNME special WWE produced under their latest contract with NBCUniversal aired on NBC and streamed on Peacock. Nielson doesn’t track Peacock, so the numbers Wrestlenomics has don’t include any streaming viewers. According to those, last weekend’s Gunther/Jey Uso-headlined show was watched by 1,494,000 and did a .33 rating with 18-49 year-olds. That’s down from the number of TV viewers the Dec. 14 edition had by about 6%. It’s a much steeper 21% drop from the previous SNME’s demo rating, however.
A full ratings report hasn’t been posted yet, but Wrestlenomics has information on Saturday night’s other live sports options. ABC’s NBA game had some big names involved as the Lakers beat the Warriors, and it won the night in primetime with a .70 demo rating from an overall audience of 3.05 million. Both games in ESPN’s college basketball doubleheader outperformed wrestling, too. The Houston/Kansas game at 7 p.m. ET did a .36 off 1.7 million viewers, and the Tennessee/Auburn game that followed at 9 p.m. ET got a .40 rating from an audience totaling 1.75 million.
And Collision? AEW’s Saturday primetime show on TNT had 250,000 viewers with a .07 rating among 18-49 year olds. Those are week-to-week declines in both: overall audience by 27%, and the demo number off 30%. It’s a few more viewers than the episode that aired opposite last month’s SNME did, but the rating was down compared to that show. Such is life for Collision when it goes opposite a WWE event.
Which is bad news, because this Saturday AEW airs opposite Royal Rumble. We’ll see how it fares. Until then…
It’s not much now, but we’ll track SNME’s performance (on television) as WWE continues the show’s new run…
You can catch up on the latest Saturday Night’s Main Event with our live blog, and recap/review.
We’ll also continue keeping tabs on Collision in our regular rundown of the show’s viewership and demo rating over the past year…
* Aired outside its usual Saturday primetime slot
Results from the latest Collision can be found here. To read a recap & review of Collision, click here.
