AEW Collision saw an uptick among its younger audience this past weekend as the show aired against a full slate of college football.
The November 9 episode averaged 332,000 viewers and 132,000 (0.10) in the 18-49 demographic, per Wrestlenomics & Programming Insider.
Collision ranked #7 among prime-time cable programming behind College Football on ESPN (0.37), a Hallmark original movie (0.21), Big Ten Football (0.20, and three programs on Fox News (0.12, 0.12, and 0.10).
There were also big college games airing on broadcast head-to-head with Alabama vs. LSU on ABC, Notre Dame vs. Florida State on NBC, and Nevada vs. Boise State on Fox.
Collision experienced a 5% loss in its overall viewership but grew 13% in the 18-49 demographic and 55% in the 18-34 demo.
In 18-34, Collision averaged 48,000 viewers and was its largest audience in that category since the ‘Grand Slam’ edition on September 28. In the demo, males increased from 20,000 viewers last week to 36,000 and was the main factor behind the growth in that segment of fans.
Adults 35-49 averaged 87,000 viewers with females increasing by 23% over last week but males dropping by 9%.
Collision was headlined by Claudio Castagnoli, PAC & Wheeler Yuta retaining the AEW Trios titles against Mark Briscoe, Tomohiro Ishii & Kyle O’Reilly and included a TNT title defense by Jack Perry against Action Andretti.
Wrestlenomics reports that the peak quarter in viewership and the 18-49 audience was between 9:00 – 9:15 p.m. ET for the end of Perry vs. Andretti and post-match with Daniel Garcia, a Julia Hart vignette, and a video for The Outrunners with 354,000 viewers and 150,000 (0.11) in the demo and aired without an ad break.