This past Tuesday’s NXT Gold Rush Week One Special, live on the CW came in with 650,000 viewers and a 0.11 in the key 18-49 demographic.
These numbers are up from the previous week’s show, which had 554,000 viewers and 0.07 rating.
NXT for this week, did not make it in the top 10 on network television.
Source: Programming Insider
The CW recently expressed their frustration in a statement to Wrestlenomics, expressing to Nielsen, their “deep frustration with the way it handled the process, communication, and methodology behind its Big Data rollout.”
The current method of collecting viewership data uses the traditional panel sample used for decades by Nielsen, combined with data from set-top boxes and smart TVs.