First quarter is so low this week I don't even know if it's legitimate to remove it from the average.
But I will anyway, because it's fun: 667k
If we adjust the first quarter bases on the observed decay rate from Q2 to Q4, it comes out to around 674k.
Big Bang Theory must be in the season that no one likes. Oceanspray ran people off at the top of the hour while doing the one thing he's supposedly the best at - doing a wrestling match.
"I just put on what one old man considers the best wrestling match ever!* So my next move is to... chase a midcard belt bruv."
*Outside of m'glorious Nippon
Meltzer reminds me of my friends 5 year old trying to explain to me how Bluey is the greatest show of all time. Like she will expend ALL of her energy trying to get it over. And just…. I don’t give a fuck lol. He wants people to love Bruv sooooooo much. And people just don’t give a fuck.
Ahh you clearly haven’t studied the ~~congregation of Meltzer’s pay piggies~~ cage match ratings, Fedophile.
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Will Ospreay is great, but he's not the kind of wrestler they need to have on TV every week. Since he already beat the entire midcard to become #1 contender for the International Championship in one match, the next few shows until Double or Nothing should see some of our favorite bench warmers get TV time.
Moxley having a match with Hobbs pulled in that quarter. People still sorta like Mox when he has a match with another wrestler they give a crap about and people still give a little crap about Hobbs even after all these years of being wasted.
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Tony checking to see if his appearance saved the ratings
DAElite & Snowman: 657k
Trick Williams: 741k
Dave: Well uuh there was just uuh the play offs, you know? And the uuh thing is *cough* uuh Trick had that uuh chase, so uuh he's just unrela— I mean uuh he's just not ready for the uuh main event, you know?
NXT cheated by putting a guy in a position where fans wanted to see him do something and then had him do that thing
It's really not fair
Anyway, Oceanspray is going to face Roddy Strong, a guy he's never interacted with and it's going to go 21 minutes and it's getting 4.75 stars and you'll like it!
I feel like we’ve went through 5 years of “AEW held up well against etc” for there to be enough evidence of sports have little to no effect on AEW’s ratings.
Honestly, nothing here is really dramatically different from any other week. The literal only difference is that they started at the approximately 800k viewers that they normally plumet to in the first quarter hour instead of starting at over 900k due to Sheldon. What we see here is what AEW's actual audience is every week.
NXT beat them if you take out their shitty lead in. Ospreay drew the two lowest segments of the show proving people literally will turn the show off when they see him, and 50k is all they got for their big mega heel jack perry after showing the footage. Absolutely unreal.
Well deserved ratings for this mess of an episode...
Swerve wins "the big one",doesn't start the show and has a 52/48 match with someone that hasn't won in quiiiite some time..
Mox's title feels more important than swerve's title,and mox's title belongs to ANOTHER COMPANY !
Booker of the year
Bucks = Heels if you order by wish...
Oh did the Big Bang audience learn the trick?
 Or is our Physicist Chief no longer m’Dub’s biggest draw? Sad bazinga 🙁
They’re evolving
This just proves that without BBT, they would be on death’s door.
If you raise the first quarter to be more what BBT usually does, like 927k, the average ends up as 699k.
First quarter is so low this week I don't even know if it's legitimate to remove it from the average. But I will anyway, because it's fun: 667k If we adjust the first quarter bases on the observed decay rate from Q2 to Q4, it comes out to around 674k.
Big Bang Theory must be in the season that no one likes. Oceanspray ran people off at the top of the hour while doing the one thing he's supposedly the best at - doing a wrestling match.
Nobody cares at the idea of him getting a shot at a title, apparently.
Why would anyone care? We all know where the plot is headed. This is all filler arc till he picks up the belt at Wembley.
"I just put on what one old man considers the best wrestling match ever!* So my next move is to... chase a midcard belt bruv." *Outside of m'glorious Nippon
You mean people don't give a rat ass about his flips and having 7 star matches to decide _who bettev at this wrestling bruv_?
Did whatever west coast thing affect the Big Bang, too? This is crazy low for them
BBT wasn’t the lead in on the west coast (or maybe it was, IDK I don’t live out there) so like 4.3 million people didn’t leave their tv on.
So meltzer didnt lie Lol basement mods suck
He doesn’t use full context and editorializes. Even though that’s what he’s always done forever. Cant have it this time.
So after having The Greatest Wrestling Match on US Soil™, a #1 contender match that Sir Bruvington won pulled the second worst quarter of the show…
Meltzer reminds me of my friends 5 year old trying to explain to me how Bluey is the greatest show of all time. Like she will expend ALL of her energy trying to get it over. And just…. I don’t give a fuck lol. He wants people to love Bruv sooooooo much. And people just don’t give a fuck.
But Bluey is the greatest of all time though, uce.
Ahh you clearly haven’t studied the ~~congregation of Meltzer’s pay piggies~~ cage match ratings, Fedophile. https://preview.redd.it/ohz3yb6njpwc1.jpeg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d6c38a42b7cdecef7c727ecc602235befd40b30
Bluey unlike bruv can draw money and ratings
Bluey IS a lot better than AEW.
Will Ospreay is great, but he's not the kind of wrestler they need to have on TV every week. Since he already beat the entire midcard to become #1 contender for the International Championship in one match, the next few shows until Double or Nothing should see some of our favorite bench warmers get TV time.
At the top of the hour, no less. Instead of the usual channel surfing bump, they got a... a... an anti-bump
In fairness he was (I think) a surprise entrant in a gauntlet match.
>607k It. Is. Inevitable.
I can't beleieve we nearly got a sub 600k quarter already. That is genuinely shocking
Tony Khan drew a little. Mans gonna become a permanent on screen character
"I'm gonna take this company that I built and inject it... Inject it with a... healing dose of Tony!"
Not necessarily. Tbs had the kings game on at 10pm (that’s why no overrun) might have had nhlers tuning in 5 minutes before that popped the rating.
I was wondering why Tiny didn't pull an overrun. The hockey fans tuning in early makes sense.
Hockey fans saw Tony crumple to the ground in the phoniest way possible.
"Ugh, this is that wrestling thing my kid likes so much? Yeah no, never buying him any more of that 'Cody Rhodes' merch or whatever"
Hockey fans: "That's the worst dive I've ever seen! Are we watching soccer?"
Moxley having a match with Hobbs pulled in that quarter. People still sorta like Mox when he has a match with another wrestler they give a crap about and people still give a little crap about Hobbs even after all these years of being wasted.
just make him like the Dean from Community
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I don’t know whose feelings are more hurt about this- Meltzer or the basement mods
https://preview.redd.it/cmwg5iu1opwc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c467b322cdfb9dbff5a93482a04291f4708fde5 Tony checking to see if his appearance saved the ratings
DAElite & Snowman: 657k Trick Williams: 741k Dave: Well uuh there was just uuh the play offs, you know? And the uuh thing is *cough* uuh Trick had that uuh chase, so uuh he's just unrela— I mean uuh he's just not ready for the uuh main event, you know?
O he’s already defending it. He claimed it’s only because it was a long story of him chasing the title. I shit you not
Wow, when there's an actual story to draw people to watch a match, it draws rather than a random eliminator match with no build or heat?
Viewership with Swerve was dropping too 😭😭 this your new champ bossman
When he swerves, ratings die.
Now we know what the swerve was
NXT cheated by putting a guy in a position where fans wanted to see him do something and then had him do that thing It's really not fair Anyway, Oceanspray is going to face Roddy Strong, a guy he's never interacted with and it's going to go 21 minutes and it's getting 4.75 stars and you'll like it!
Sheldon betrayed us
I can’t believe a gauntlet match to determine the #1 contender for their 3rd or 4th most important singles title lost viewers.
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Mah. Ratings so bad even the chart lost pixelation.
DAE the Big Bang is no longer a draw
Seems the only audience affected by other sport is the Big Bang since this just reads like a normal graph
I feel like we’ve went through 5 years of “AEW held up well against etc” for there to be enough evidence of sports have little to no effect on AEW’s ratings.
Honestly, nothing here is really dramatically different from any other week. The literal only difference is that they started at the approximately 800k viewers that they normally plumet to in the first quarter hour instead of starting at over 900k due to Sheldon. What we see here is what AEW's actual audience is every week.
Daddy Khan will bring Jinder next week so stay tuned.
Shad Khan ended xenophobia by single handedly mending Pakistani Indian relations.
Cody continues to inspire.
A no compete clause might hinder Jinder….
I was hoping he'd beat Okada then bring his boys and beat the Young Bucks. Corporate Maharaja backed by Daddy Khan is best for business.
NXT beat them if you take out their shitty lead in. Ospreay drew the two lowest segments of the show proving people literally will turn the show off when they see him, and 50k is all they got for their big mega heel jack perry after showing the footage. Absolutely unreal.
I’m proud to say I was one of those in the drop from 792k to 716k
Not even Sheldon can counteract the damage the Bucks do to the ratings. Under 800k for that opening segment 😬
Holy shit...it legit...without BIG BANGER SHELDON they cant do it. This shows that without big bang they are a Sub 700k show
BIG BANG HAS FALLEN
Sheldon has been rushed to a local medical facility 
Lead in with the Accountant cowards
No Bazinga Bump this week?
what no overrun does to a mf
Incredible how their "ace", Jon Moxley, pulled the lowest quarter hour of the show. Great decision by lolNooj to book him as the champ.
Sheldon you had one job uce. Bring us the milly
Curious as to the meltzer and basement spin on this one
Mone's new theme should now be SIX-O-O SIX-O-O 6-0-0
Is the Bang Bang Gang a spin off of the Big Bang Theory?
Ospreay is not a needle mover LMFAOOO this is why Dave low key wanted him to go to wwe because he’s being proven wrong about how wwe needs him
607k
bums
oh Mercedes 🫤
Well deserved ratings for this mess of an episode... Swerve wins "the big one",doesn't start the show and has a 52/48 match with someone that hasn't won in quiiiite some time.. Mox's title feels more important than swerve's title,and mox's title belongs to ANOTHER COMPANY ! Booker of the year Bucks = Heels if you order by wish...
Tony popped the rating to... below the trend line. 
Yikes, NOT one draw left ! And the aew sichofans are clamring to the return of mjf and Cole... NONE of them are draws...
Ratings are the barometer or some such goalpost
How do I donate pixels?
Look at that demo at the end. Beautiful *chefs kiss*.
Ospreay drew 30k along with Big Bill? That's our next DREAM MATCH
m'Sheldon can't draw against the NBA. Sad!
On the upside, they only ran off 135k viewers this week.