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Like a chicken@#$% heel calling out a babyface they know isn't in the building, WWE Raw claimed a ratings victory this week as there was no NFL or NBA game on to draw away viewers  While WWE's numbers still dropped compared to last week despite the lack of competition, it was enough for the Red[...]

WWE Smackdown's overnight ratings are up this week in a changing television landscape as Joe Biden took over as head booker of the United States from WWE Hall-of-Famer President Donald Trump Biden has far less experience in the wrestling business than Trump, whose association with the company dates back to the 1980s and who benefited[...]

AEW Dynamite defeated WWE NXT in the ratings once again this week amidst the backdrop of a night dominated by cable news as Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States The full ratings report from Showbuzz Daily was delayed due to the Martin Luther King holiday at the beginning of[...]

The AEW President made a special appearance on this week's episode of Impact Wrestling, but instead of causing a ratings bump, Khan caused the ratings to go down, undoing all of the gains Impact has had since the start of 2021. Tony Khan and Jerry Lynn appear at Impact Wrestling to scout the AEW vs Impact[...]

WWE Raw ratings rebounded this week despite competition from NBA basketball and cable news All three hours of Raw were in the top 5 cable shows this week as reported by Showbuzz Daily But what do these ratings mean? Don't worry, loyal readers The Chadster is here to break it all down for you.   The official[...]

WWE Smackdown came out on top in the network ratings wars Friday night No, technically, Smackdown didn't win the night in overall viewership, nor did it score the highest rating in the 18-49 demographic However, Smackdown absolutely crushed the National Figure Skating Championships in head-to-head competition! Yeah, figure skaters! Tell The Chadster how his ass[...]

AEW Dynamite once again scored a victory in ratings and viewership over rival WWE NXT, though both show's audiences were dwarfed by people tuning in to watch the unfolding drama of the impeachment of President Donald Trump Trumps' refusal to accept the results of an election he lost like a bitch has wreaked havoc on[...]

The repercussions of that day are not yet fully known and will be felt for some time, but there's one thing in particular that was clearly affected: television ratings But even with Americans glued to cable news coverage of Donald Trump's Insurrection, Impact Wrestling still managed to add viewers and tick up in the 18-49[...]

No, it's the ratings of WWE Raw, which fell by over 300,000 viewers last night despite an appearance by Triple H and the intrigue of a WWE Champion forced to quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19. The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw Credit: WWE. My friends, Triple H knows that the wrestling business is all[...]

Just two weeks after a beautiful ratings victory that gave The Chadster hope for the new year, a spectacular, unprecedented victory that showed that WWE Smackdown is the most popular pro wrestling show of all time, WWE Smackdown has found itself ranked sixth in network ratings for the 18-49 demographic and eleventh in terms of[...]

In the aftermath, Americans were glued to cable news and the ratings for AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT were down as a result. Vince McMahon and Donald Trump in a storyline face-off, courtesy of WWE. Though both shows suffered from viewers tuning in to the news, it affected them in different ways For AEW Dynamite, coming off[...]

Following a two-week holiday break during which Impact Wrestling aired Best of 2020 clip shows, Tuesday's new episode of Impact saw ratings and viewership increase as Impact reentered the Top 150 cable shows as tracked by Showbuzz Daily Though Impact did not return to pre-Holiday levels, it faced strong coverage of election night in Georgia,[...]

No, The Chadster is referring to WWE Raw's return to the top of the cable ratings charts! Bolstered by the promised appearance of WWE legends including Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Torrie Wilson, WWE Raw scored its highest ratings since the start of the pandemic for the first Raw of 2021, drawing more than two[...]

Greetings, comrades! It is I, your El Presidente, reporting to you live from a vote-counting facility in Georgia where I am programming Dominion vote-counting machines to switch votes to the Democrats with news of WWE Smackdown's latest ratings Normally, that funny little man The Chadster is the one to report on the ratings, but when[...]

Not that ratings had anything to do with the motivation behind putting on what even a diehard NXT fan like The Chadster has to admit was a touching and beautiful tribute show, AEW Dynamite this week drew almost a million viewers for its special episode celebrating the life of Brodie Lee It looks like many[...]

I come bearing bad news for fans of Impact Wrestling: the ratings really shit the bed for the final episode of 2020. The official logo of Impact Wrestling. Impact's ratings for this week's episode were so low, Impact didn't even make it onto the Top 150 cable shows on Shozbuzz Daily That's also what happened last week,[...]

Raw's viewership rose once again from it's all-time low two weeks, with Raw ending the year on a thoroughly mediocre note in terms of ratings and viewership, which, all things considered, is just about the best hardcore WWE fans like The Chadster can hope for. The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw Credit: WWE. WWE Raw[...]

You know, The Chadster is an optimistic guy, but even I didn't really think Santa would come through and bring WWE the ratings Christmas miracle they so badly needed Maybe the entire past ten years were like the part of the movie where George Bailey sees what it would be like if WWE got terrible[...]

Ho ho ho! Merry Chadmas! The ratings are in for this week's Wednesday Night Wars, and with NXT running unopposed and Dynamite starting over two hours later than normal due to an NBA game, the ratings were… pretty much normal Dynamite still beat NXT in both overall viewership and in the 18-49 demographic AEW and[...]

Impact Wrestling is taking two weeks off for the holidays, and so, it seems, are the show's ratings Impact dropped out of the Top 150 cable shows as tracked by Showbuzz Daily and Twitch viewership also returned to pre-Kenny-Omega numbers for Tuesday's episode of Impact, which was the first part of a two-part Best of[...]

Following a disastrous week that traumatized the ol' Chadster with the lowest-ever ratings for WWE Raw, things turned around in a major way this week for the WWE TLC fallout episode of The Chadster's favorite show WWE Raw gained 170,000 viewers and .12 in the 18-49 demo for a show that featured Charlotte Flair, who[...]

Instead, I want to talk about the ratings for last week's episode of WWE Smackdown. The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown. I am filling in on the ratings today for Chad McMahon after his wife Keighleyanne and some of his friends and family members staged an intervention before he saw that Smackdown barely topped a[...]

WWE Raw set a new record earlier this week for low ratings, and if Dynamite stayed close to its rating from last week, it could have beaten Raw this week And with the stronger Smackdown set to air on FS1 instead of Fox, it could have left the week wide open for Dynamite's first-ever victory[...]

Impact Wrestling barely held onto a spot in the Top 150 cable shows this week after hitting a modern-day ratings high for last week's show This was the second episode of Impact Wrestling since the company began a crossover with AEW that saw Kenny Omega win the AEW Championship and then show up on Dynamite[...]

I came to tell you about WWE's terrible ratings this week Raw drew an all-time low 1.52 million viewers on average for all three hours and a .41 rating, which is actually .04 lower than AEW Dynamite got last week in the 18-49 demo, though Raw still had over half a million more viewers The[...]

WWE Smackdown took the number one spot in the overnight network TV ratings, defeating even the mighty Shark Tank in the crucial 18-49 demographic Even so, viewership was down slightly from last week with WWE a little more than a week away from the TLC PPV The show was highlighted by the in-ring debut of[...]

[Photo: All Elite Wrestling] Dynamite Crushes NXT in Ratings and Viewership Dynamite drew 995,000 overall viewers for TNT on Wednesday, with a .45 rating in people 18-49, according to Showbuzz Daily That was enough for Dynamite to rank number two for the night, behind MTV's The Challenge, but The Challenge had fewer viewers The Challenge also did[...]

Impact Wrestling saw a big rise in viewership this week thanks to a crossover with AEW and the first appearance of Kenny Omega.

Those of us who base our entire identities on how well pro wrestling performs in the ratings can finally rest easy this Tuesday Night ahead of Impact After an excruciating delay, Showbuzz Daily has finally released the Monday cable rankings WWE Raw came behind Monday Night Football, and Sportscenter to take the fourth, fifth, and seventh[...]

The ratings are in for this week's episode of WWE Friday Night Smackdown on Fox, and The Chadster is here to tell you all about from the perspective of a guy who likes to put a positive spin on the news about my favorite global corporation This week, Smackdown proved more popular than Christmas itself,[...]