WWE NXT viewership up, 18-49 demo rating down

Tuesday night’s Halloween Havoc go-home edition of WWE NXT averaged 702,000 viewers on The CW Network, up 9.9 percent from last week. It’s the third-largest audience total for the show since June 18.

NXT drew a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s down 11.1 percent from last week and ties the smallest rating the show has done since July 30. It’s the lowest rating NXT has drawn since moving to The CW at the start of this month.

The show went head-to-head with opening night of the NBA season on TNT as well as an NHL marathon that featured every team in the league with games on TBS, ESPN+, and local networks.

As compared to the same week in 2023, when NXT still aired on USA Network, the show’s overall viewership was down 10.8 percent while its 18-49 rating was down 23.8 percent.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for NXT, along with the 10-week average in both categories. The first seven weeks on the chart were from USA airings with the last four being CW episodes. This week’s show was up 2.7 percent in overall viewers but down 15.8 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.