WWE issued the following statement to Wrestleview about the debut of AEW Dynamite on TNT and the real winners of the head-to-head broadcasts:
“Congratulations to AEW on a successful premiere. The real winners of last night’s head-to-head telecasts of NXT on USA Network and AEW on TNT are the fans, who can expect Wednesday nights to be a competitive and wild ride as this is a marathon, not a one-night sprint.”
The complete ratings for both AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT will be available soon. Preliminary numbers are showing that AEW Dynamite “won” the first night of the so-called Wednesday Night War.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT WARS
According to overnight ratings from Nielsen, @AEWrestling did a 0.7 and @WWENXT did a 0.5. Will be interesting to see how that translates to viewership.— Ryan Glasspiegel (@sportsrapport) October 3, 2019