Weekly ratings fall despite stronger year-over-year numbers
Summary
– AEW Dynamite drew 617,000 viewers and a 0.10 demo rating on April 22, 2026
– The show dropped by 93,000 viewers compared to the previous week
– Year-over-year viewership improved, but the key demo rating declined from 2025
AEW Dynamite saw a noticeable drop in viewership for the April 22, 2026, episode on TBS, as both total audience and the key demo rating fell from the previous week.
According to Programming Insider, the April 22 episode drew 617,000 viewers and a 0.10 rating in the P18–49 demographic.
That marks a decline from the April 15 episode, which drew 710,000 viewers and a 0.12 demo rating.
The week-to-week difference shows that Dynamite lost 93,000 viewers, representing a 13.1 percent drop in total audience.
The key demo also slipped by 0.02 points, representing a 16.7 percent decrease in the most-watched advertising category.
Even with the weekly decline, the year-over-year comparison tells a slightly different story.
The same week in 2025 saw Dynamite pull 521,000 viewers and a 0.14 demo rating.
Compared to that number, the April 22, 2026, episode improved by 18.4 percent in total viewership, adding 96,000 viewers.
However, the key demo tells the opposite story, dropping by 28.6 percent from last year’s 0.14 to this year’s 0.10.
The current episode also finished below AEW’s 2026 yearly average of 641,313 viewers and under the April monthly average of 677,750 viewers.
The four-week rolling average sits at 677,750 viewers, showing this week’s episode landed well below recent performance trends.
Looking at the full year so far, AEW’s highest Dynamite audience in 2026 remains the March 25 episode with 765,000 viewers, while the lowest came on January 21 with 498,000 viewers.
Although the April 22 show did not hit those extremes, the drop continues to keep attention on how Dynamite performs week to week in a very competitive television environment.
