This week’s live edition of WWE NXT drew 644,000 viewers on the USA Network, according to Nielsen via Showbuzz Daily.
This is up 3.21% from last week’s 624,000 viewers.
Tuesday’s NXT drew a 0.13 rating in the key 18-49 demographic. This is up 8.33% from last week’s 0.12 rating in the key demo. The 0.13 rating represents 170,000 18-49 viewers, which is up 12.58% from the 151,000 18-49 viewers that last week’s 0.12 key demo rating represented, according to Wrestlenomics.
NXT ranked #35 on the Cable Top 150 this week with the 0.13 rating in the 18-49 key demographic. This is up from last week’s #50 ranking on cable.
NXT ranked #61 in viewership on cable this week. This is up from last week’s #63 viewership ranking on cable.
Tuesday’s NXT drew the seventeenth-highest total audience of the year so far for standard airings, tied with one other episode, and the fourth-lowest key demo rating of the year so far for standard airings, tied with ten other episodes. Sports competition last night included two NBA games on TNT, two FIFA World Cup games on FS1, one FIFA World Cup game on Universo, two College Basketball games on ESPN, two College Basketball games on ESPN2, and one College Basketball game on FS1. This week’s NXT viewership was up 3.21% from last week, while the key demo rating was up 8.33% from last week.
This week’s NXT viewership was up 1.1% from the episode that aired one year ago, while the 18-49 key demo rating was down 13.33% from the show that aired one year ago.
The NBA game between the Warriors and the Mavericks on TNT topped the night in the 18-49 demographic on the Cable Top 150 with a 0.47 rating, also drawing 1.506 million viewers. The Five on FOX News topped the night on cable in viewership with 3.448 million viewers, also drawing a 0.20 key demo rating.
This week’s NXT show was a live episode from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, with the following line-up advertised ahead of time – Shawn Michaels and his Hall of Fame panel revealing the Iron Survivor Challenge participants, Donovan Dijak making his in-ring return, Roxanne Perez vs. Indi Hartwell, Kiana James vs. Fallon Henley, and Toxic Attraction vs. Nikkita Lyons and NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions Katana Chance and Kayden Carter, which ended up being the main event.
Below is our 2022 NXT Viewership Tracker, along with the Top 10 moments from this week’s show:
January 4 Episode: 685,000 viewers with a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demographic (New Year’s Evil episode)
January 11 Episode: 647,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 18 Episode: 587,000 viewers with a 0.11 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 25 Episode: 593,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 1 Episode: 619,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 8 Episode: 400,000 viewers with a 0.07 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Syfy episode)
February 15 Episode: 525,000 viewers with a 0.11 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Vengeance Day Syfy episode)
February 22 Episode: 621,000 viewers with a 0.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 1 Episode: 551,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 8 Episode: 613,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Roadblock episode)
March 15 Episode: 624,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 22 Episode: 628,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 29 Episode: 626,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
April 5 Episode: 631,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Post-Stand & Deliver episode)
April 12 Episode: 610,000 viewers with a 0.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Title Tuesday episode)
April 19 Episode: 569,000 viewers with a 0.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic
April 26 Episode: 577,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 3 Episode: 661,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Spring Breakin’ episode)
May 10 Episode: 533,000 viewers with a 0.10 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 17 Episode: 601,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 24 Episode: 551,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
May 31 Episode: 534,000 viewers with a 0.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic
June 7 Episode: 657,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Post-In Your House episode)
June 14 Episode: 612,000 viewers with a 0.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Taped episode)
June 21 Episode: 637,000 viewers with a 0.18 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Taped episode)
June 28 Episode: 570,000 viewers with a 0.11 rating in the 18-49 demographic
July 5 Episode: 593,000 viewers with a 0.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Great American Bash episode)
July 12 Episode: 582,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
July 19 Episode: 588,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
July 26 Episode: 600,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 2 Episode: 649,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 9 Episode: 597,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 16 Episode: 723,000 viewers with a 0.18 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Heatwave episode)
August 23 Episode: 678,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
August 30 Episode: 676,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic
September 6 Episode: 684,000 viewers with a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Post-Worlds Collide episode)
September 13 Episode: 728,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic (2.0 One Year Anniversary episode)
September 20 Episode: 688,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Taped episode)
September 27 Episode: 660,000 viewers with a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Taped episode)
October 4 Episode: 625,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
October 11 Episode: 737,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic
October 18 Episode: 676,000 viewers with a 0.18 rating in the 18-49 demographic
October 25 Episode: 716,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Post-Halloween Havoc episode)
November 1 Episode: 670,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
November 8 Episode: 664,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic
November 15 Episode: 663,000 viewers with a 0.17 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Title Tuesday episode)
November 22 Episode: 624,000 viewers with a 0.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic
November 29 Episode: 644,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
December 6 Episode:
2021 Viewership Average: 665,807 viewers per episode
2021 18-49 Key Demographic Rating Average: 0.16 per episode
2020 Viewership Average: 698,623 viewers per episode
2019 Viewership Average: 785,307 viewers per episode
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