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The wrestling was no match for Biden and LeBron on Feb. 7


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Against the president’s State of the Union address and King James breaking the NBA record in scoring, WWE NXT achieved its worst ratings since last June. The MLW Underground premiere was much worse.

Ratings and viewership data are available for this week’s (February 7) episode of WWE NXT.

According to Showbuzz Daily, This episode drew an audience of 562,000 viewers and received a 0.11 rating point in the 18-49 demographic. NXT landed at #50 on cable overnight in the main event. All of them are down from last week, and this is NXT’s lowest beta number since June of last year.

This was last Saturday’s episode of Fallout that was well received revenge day PLE, and featured a main event segment hosted by the OG NXT Horsewoman Bayley. so what happened?

For one thing, the State of the Union address. President Joe Biden’s address to the American people and a joint session of Congress (which often sounded like a “polarizing” wrestling star giving a promo to a divided audience), the official Republican backlash, and the related analysis and coverage drew ratings on every network they aired on — which was a Four radio networks and three news networks.

On the other hand, TNT’s late basketball game featured LeBron James breaking the NBA scoring record. It was the highest rated show on TV last night, with a 1.29 on the demo.

It also meant last night was a rough one for the MLW premiere Underground on Reelz. This was watched by 79,000 with a . 03 in 18-49. Underground It finished 132nd among cable assets.

Here are NXT’s audience share and ratings for the 18-49 demographic over the past year:

  • Feb 1 – 619 k / .13
  • Feb 8th* – 400 K / .07
  • February 15th* – 525 K / .11
  • Feb 22 – 612 k / .12
  • March 1st – 551 k / .13
  • March 8th – 613 k / .13
  • March 15th – 624K / .14
  • March 22nd – 628 k / .14
  • March 29th – 626 k / .14
  • April 5th – 631 k / .14
  • April 12th – 610 k / .12
  • April 19th – 569 k / .12
  • April 26th – 577 K / .14
  • May 3 – 661 k / .13
  • May 10th – 533 k / 10
  • May 17th – 601 k / .14
  • May 24th – 551 k / .13
  • May 31st – 534 k / .12
  • June 7th – 657 k / .14
  • June 14th – 612 k / .12
  • June 21st – 637 K / .18
  • June 28 – 570 K / .11
  • July 5th – 593 K / .12
  • July 12th – 582K / .14
  • July 19th – 588 K / .13
  • July 26th – 600 K / .13
  • Aug 2 – 649 k / .15
  • Aug 9 – 597 K / .13
  • Aug 16th – 723 k / .17
  • Aug 23 – 678 k / .14
  • 30 Aug – 676 ​​k / .15
  • Sept. 6 – 684 K / .16
  • September 13th – 728 k / .15
  • Sept. 20 – 688 k / .15
  • Sept. 27 – 660 K / .16
  • Oct. 4 – 625 K / .13
  • Oct. 11 – 737 k / .15
  • Oct. 18 – 676 ​​k / .18
  • Oct 25th – 716 k / .15
  • November 1 – 670 K / .13
  • November 8th – 664 k / .15
  • November 15th – 663 k / .17
  • November 22 – 624 k / .12
  • November 29 – 644 k / .13
  • Dec 6 – 534 k / .13
  • December 13th – 666 k / .17
  • December 20th – 705 K / .15
  • December 27th – 588 K / .12
  • Jan 3 – 653 k / .16
  • January 10th – 700 thousand / .15
  • Jan 17th – 600 k / .14
  • Jan 24th – 607 k / .12
  • Jan 31 – 587 K / .13
  • Feb 7 – 562 k / .11

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