Worrying Viewership Statistics For AEW

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A recent report has shown a worrying trend in the viewing figures for a weekly AEW show over the past few months.

Wrestlenomics reports that the age demographic for AEW Rampage, which had the youngest median viewer age, has now risen closer to that of WWE Raw.

AEW's live+same-day TV audience has aged up in recent months.

Rampage has moved from being the youngest audience in wrestling to closing in on Raw's median age.

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Whilst this creep towards WWE Raw’s demographic may be worrying, it’s more of a concern when seeing the rise of AEW Rampage against the shallow decline of the median age for WWE Raw and the relative stability of the demographic that WWE Smackdown occupies.

As can be seen from the graph, AEW Dynamite has also seen the aging-up of its audience over the past year.

WWE NXT has seen an interesting change since switching back to a lower median age than it had for much of its NXT 2.0 run.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling continues to have the highest median age of all broadcast shows.

Whilst this doesn’t mean that younger audience members are being lost to the audience, it does mean that the wrestling fans for AEW programming are part of the older demographic with fewer younger audience members recorded as tuning in.

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