WWE NXT Garners Best Audience Of The Year With Move To New Night
Tuesday's live post-Takeover edition of WWE NXT on the USA Network drew 805,000 viewers on the USA Network, according to Nielsen via Showbuzz Daily.
It should be noted that this was the first NXT episode to air on Tuesday nights, with no head-to-head competition from AEW Dynamite. This show featured fallout from last week's two-night "Takeover: Stand and Deliver" event.
This viewership is up 4.82% from last week's show, which drew 768,000 viewers for the Takeover Night One episode that also aired on Peacock/WWE Network with no commercials, and up against AEW Dynamite.
NXT tied for #8 on the Cable Top 150 this week with a 0.22 rating in the 18-49 key demographic. This is in line with last week's final Wednesday show, which ranked #11 with a 0.22 rating in the key demo.
This week's NXT show ranked #60 in viewership, tying with Assembly Required and the 9am airing of CNN Newsroom. This is down from last week's #59 ranking.
This is NXT's biggest audience since October 28, which was the Halloween Havoc show that drew 876,000 viewers with a 0.25 rating in the 18-49 demographic. This week's show tied with last week's show for NXT's biggest key demo rating since Halloween Havoc.
This week's NXT viewership was up 16% from the same week in 2020, while this week's key demo rating was up 29.4% from the same week in 2020.
Curse of Oak Island on History topped the night in the 18-49 demographic on the Cable Top 150 with a 0.44 rating, drawing 2.786 million viewers. Tucker Carlson Tonight on FOX News topped the night in viewership with 2.943 million viewers, tying for #8 on the Cable Top 150 with a 0.22 rating in the key demo, with NXT, the Clippers vs. Pacers NBA game on TNT, and CNN Tonight at 10pm.
NCIS on CBS topped the night on network TV in viewership with an average of 5.558 million viewers. This Is Us on NBC took the #1 spot in the 18-49 demographic with a 0.79 rating.
Below is our 2021 NXT Viewership Tracker,, along with the Top 10 moments from this week's show:
January 6 Episode: 641,000 viewers with a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demographic (New Year's Evil episode)
January 13 Episode: 551,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 20 Episode: 659,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 27 Episode: 720,000 viewers with a 0.21 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 3 Episode: 610,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 10 Episode: 558,000 viewers with a 0.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic
February 17 Episode: 713,000 viewers with a 0.16 rating in the 18-49 demographic (post-Takeover episode)
February 24 Episode: 734,000 viewers with a 0.18 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 3 Episode: 692,000 viewers with a 0.20 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 10 Episode: 691,000 viewers with a 0.18 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 17 Episode: 597,000 viewers with a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 24 Episode: 678,000 viewers with a 0.14 rating in the 18-49 demographic
March 31 Episode: 654,000 viewers with a 0.21 rating in the 18-49 demographic
April 7 Episode: 768,000 viewers with a 0.22 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Takeover: Stand & Deliver Night 1 episode, also aired on Peacock/WWE Network, final Wednesday show)
TUESDAY NIGHT TIMESLOT BEGINS
April 13 Episode: 805,000 viewers with a 0.22 rating in the 18-49 demographic (Post-Takeover episode, first Tuesday show)
April 20 Episode:
2020 Total: 37.027 million viewers over 53 episodes
2020 Average: 698,623 viewers per episode
2019 Total: 10.209 million viewers over 13 episodes
2019 Average: 785,307 viewers per episode