AEW Dynamite viewership up, 18-49 rating steady for Maximum Carnage
Wednesday night’s Maximum Carnage episode of AEW Dynamite averaged 526,000 viewers on TBS, up 1.9 percent from the previous week. It was the largest audience for the show since November 12.
Dynamite averaged a 0.08 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s the same rating the show did last week and ties the second lowest the show has ever done in that category in its regular time slot.
As compared to the same week in 2025, when Nielsen was still using its previous ratings reporting method, the overall viewership was down 22.5 percent while the 18-49 rating was down 55.6 percent.
Listed below are the last 10 available weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for AEW Dynamite on TBS as well as the 9 week average in both categories. Numbers are still not available for the Christmas Eve episode that aired outside the normal timeslot. This week’s show was up 4.3 percent in overall viewers but down 11.1 percent in 18-49 as compared to recent averages.
| Date | AEW 18-49 | AEW total viewers |
| 11/5/2025 | 0.09 | 497,000 |
| 11/12/2025 | 0.15 | 600,000 |
| 11/19/2025 | 0.1 | 491,000 |
| 11/26/2025 | 0.1 | 512,000 |
| 12/3/2025 | 0.09 | 496,000 |
| 12/10/2025 | 0.09 | 516,000 |
| 12/17/2025 | 0.08 | 511,000 |
| 12/24/2025 | ||
| 12/31/2025 | 0.07 | 398,000 |
| 1/7/2025 | 0.08 | 516,000 |
| 1/14/2026 | 0.08 | 526,000 |
| *10 wk avg | 0.09 | 504,111 |
