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Impact Wrestling last night on Pop TV drew a viewership of 276,000, among live and same-night-DVR viewership. It represents the three lowest viewership totals of the year and drop from last week’s 296,000 viewership level.
If Impact executives had a sense of momentum earlier this year when viewership numbers were at 350,000 or above seven out of nine weeks in March and April, it’s deflated with four straight weeks of viewership under 300,000. The 2018 average is now 314,000, still above the 296,000 average through this week last year.
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Over analysis at it’s worst. It’s just not must see TV. Plus it’s warm weather now. Also, you only report these ratings when they go down and never report them when they are up. How come you never put up MLW’s viewership numbers or Lucha Underground’s? Talk about having an agenda.
It’ll bounce back again. It always does. Only Impact’s numbers get placed under a microscope.
WWE ratings at one time were 7.0. They are now in the 1’s for many shows. That sure seems far worse to me.
T-bone 22. you are incorrect. You cannot seriously compare wwe’s cable tv ratings from the late 1990’s to the year 2018. The television landscape has changed in so many ways with tons more calbe channels and different ways to consume television products.
wwe is still one of the highest rated shows on cable tv which is why wwe got huge money deals from fox and nbc universal.
impact wrestling is stuck on pop tv on a barter deal drawing less than 350,000 viewers per week while wwe gets millions of tv viewers each week.
wwe holds wrestlemania in stadiums while impact wrestling is holding slammiversary in a Toronto NIGHTCLUB setting.
It is unfair for fans and the wrestling media to act as if wwe and impact are “competitors” when they are light years apart in terms of financial stability.