Countdown to AEW All Out ratings up from previous special

AEW’s Countdown to All Out special averaged 357,000 viewers on TNT on Saturday afternoon.

The viewership number is up 3.8 percent from the Countdown special that aired prior to this May’s  Double or Nothing pay-per-view. That Countdown show aired at 10 p.m. Eastern time on the night before the PPV. Countdown to All Out aired at 5:30 p.m. Eastern on Saturday leading into the event.

In the important 18-49 demo, the improvement was more significant. Countdown to Double or Nothing averaged a 0.10 rating and finished 51st for the night n the cable ratings. Saturday’s All Out preview special was up 40 percent in the demo, averaging a 0.14 rating and finishing 23rd on cable in that category. 

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There was competition in the form of the opening day of college football as well as coverage of the Kentucky Derby, which aired directly opposite the Countdown show and averaged nearly 5.5 million viewers on NBC.

The previous time AEW had programming on a Saturday was a special episode of Dynamite on Aug 22 that did 755,000 viewers and a 0.31 rating, so Countdown to All Out was down 52.7 percent in viewership and 54.8 percent in the 18-49 demo from that Dynamite episode.