Impact Wrestling Draws Under 100K Viewers In New Timeslot
Thursday's Impact Wrestling episode, featuring World Champion Johnny Impact retaining over Rey Fenix in the main event, drew 98,000 viewers. This is down from last week's 189,000 viewers and the lowest viewership in the history of the show. The previous record low came on December 14 of last year – 161,000 viewers.
This is the first viewership for Impact in the 10pm timeslot on Pop.
This week's Impact episode ranked #140 on the Cable Top 150. Last week's show ranked #148.
Hannity topped the night on cable in viewership with 3.338 million viewers, ranking #10 on the Cable Top 150. The NBA game between the Nuggets and the Lakers topped the night in the 18-49 demographic but drew just 1.948 million viewers. The big draws on broadcast TV last night were Big Bang Theory with 12.994 million viewers and Young Sheldon with 10.961 million viewers, both on CBS in the 8pm hour. The NFL game on Fox at 8:30pm drew 12.052 million viewers, also on network TV.
Below is our 2018 Impact Viewership Tracker:
January 4th Episode: 309,000 viewers
January 11th Episode: 276,000 viewers
January 18th Episode: 309,000 viewers
January 25th Episode: 310,000 viewers (Genesis episode)
February 1st Episode: 319,000 viewers (Reboot)
February 8th Episode: 294,000 viewers
February 15th Episode: 300,000 viewers
February 22nd Episode: 262,000 viewers
March 1st Episode: 365,000 viewers
March 8th Episode: 325,000 (Crossroads episode)
March 15th Episode: 350,000 viewers
March 22nd Episode: 362,000 viewers
March 29th Episode: 399,000 viewers
April 5th Episode: 294,000 viewers
April 12th Episode: 381,000 viewers
April 19th Episode: 373,000 viewers
April 26th Episode: 308,000 viewers (post-Redemption episode)
May 3rd Episode: 299,000 viewers
May 10th Episode: 295,000 viewers
May 17th Episode: 326,000 viewers
May 24th Episode: 263,000 viewers
May 31st Episode: 283,000 viewers (Under Pressure episode)
June 7th Episode: 296,000 viewers
June 14th Episode: 276,000 viewers
June 21st Episode: 262,000 viewers
June 28th Episode: 254,000 viewers
July 5th Episode: 304,000 viewers
July 12th Episode: 284,000 viewers
July 19th Episode: 275,000 viewers
July 26th Episode: 299,000 viewers (post-Slammiversary episode)
August 2nd Episode: 248,000 viewers
August 9th Episode: 168,000 viewers
August 16th Episode: 210,000 viewers
August 23rd Episode: 212,000 viewers
August 30th Episode: 225,000 viewers (ReDefined episode)
September 6th Episode: 236,000 viewers
September 13th Episode: 258,000 viewers
September 20th Episode: 229,000 viewers
September 27th Episode: 222,000 viewers
October 4th Episode: 190,000 viewers
October 11th Episode: 183,000 viewers
October 18th Episode: 189,000 viewers (post-Bound For Glory episode)
October 25th Episode: 98,000 viewers
November 1st Episode:
2017 Total: 16.147 million viewers
2017 Average: 311,000 viewers per episode