WWE NXT viewership up, 18-49 demo rating down for return to Tuesday

Tuesday night’s WWE NXT averaged 631,000 viewers on The CW Network, up 1.9 percent from last week (which was moved to Wednesday against AEW Dynamite due to the presidential election and was a special episode from the former ECW Arena).

This is the largest audience total for NXT since October 22.

NXT drew a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s down 5.9 percent from last week and ties the second-lowest rating the show has done in that category since July 30.

The episode went head-to-head with NBA basketball on TNT as well as a college basketball game on ESPN and the college football rankings show, which aired against the last half hour of NXT.

As compared to the same week in 2023, when the show still aired on USA Network, NXT’s overall viewership was down 10.2 percent while its 18-49 rating was down 23.8 percent.

Listed below are the last 11 weeks of viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for NXT, along with the 10-week average in both categories. The first four weeks on the chart are from USA Network airings with the last seven being on The CW. This week’s show was down 8.2 percent in overall viewers and 15.8 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.