WWE NXT viewership and 18-49 ratings both up against NBA
Tuesday night’s episode of WWE NXT averaged 641,000 viewers on the CW Network, up 18.5% from the previous week. It’s the largest audience for the show since February 17th.
NXT averaged a 0.11 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s up 57.1% from last week and was the highest rating the show has done in that category since February 10th and the second highest of the year to date.
The show went head to head with an NBA playoff game on NBC that led all television in the key demo. That show finished tied for 9th out of 11 English language network TV shows in prime time.
As compared to the same week in 2025 the overall viewership was down 1.7% while the 18-49 rating was down 21.4%.
Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership and 18-49 demo ratings for WWE NXT on the CW Network as well as the 10 week average in both categories. This week’s show was up 10.6% in overall viewers and 37.5% in 18-49 as compared to recent averages.
| Date | NXT 18-49 | NXT total viewers |
| 2/24/2026 | 0.08 | 589,000 |
| 3/3/2026 | 0.09 | 604,000 |
| 3/10/2026 | 0.08 | 541,000 |
| 3/17/2026 | 0.07 | 588,000 |
| 3/24/2026 | 0.08 | 581,000 |
| 3/31/2026 | 0.08 | 572,000 |
| 4/7/2026 | 0.08 | 605,000 |
| 4/14/2026 | 0.09 | 584,000 |
| 4/21/2026 | 0.1 | 591,000 |
| 4/28/2026 | 0.07 | 541,000 |
| 5/5/2026 | 0.11 | 641,000 |
| *10 wk avg | 0.08 | 579,600 |
| *not including | current week |
