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>drew an average of 2.130 million viewers, according to Showbuzz Daily.

>This is down from last week's 2.507 million viewers, and the second-lowest non-holiday audience ever, behind the June 10 show that drew 2.125 million viewers.

>For this week's show, the first hour drew 2.362 million viewers (last week's hour 1 - 2.638 million),
>the second hour drew 2.183 million viewers (last week's hour 2 - 2.557 million)
>and the final hour drew 1.845 million viewers (last week's hour 3 - 2.326 million).

>RAW was #11 for the night in viewership on cable, behind the NFL's two Monday Night Football openers on ESPN, Monday Night Kickoff, SportsCenter at midnight, 90 Day Fiance, Very Brady Renovation, The Five, Rachel Maddow Show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and Hannity. The NFL MNF game between Houston and New Orleans topped the night in viewership and the 18-49 demographic with 13.078 million viewers. The game between Oakland and Denver came in second in viewership and the Cable Top 150 18-49 demographic with 10.619 million viewers. RAW was #5 in the 18-49 demographic on the Cable Top 150 this week, behind the two NFL games, Monday Night Kickoff and SportsCenter.

>As far as national television goes, NXT will debut two weeks before AEW, but Levesque points out that in reality, his brand has an even larger head start.

>“If you talk about the upstart, what they’re going out and saying is that they’re an alternative,” Levesque said. “We were that alternative five years ago. We opened the door for being an alternative, we opened the door to show people that it can be done on a bigger level and on a different basis. As far as being the alternative, great, go put on the best show you can put out, and we’ll put out the best one we can put out.”

> As far as the All Out PPV goes, it was a mixed bag. Traditional U.S. television PPV was down significantly from Double or Nothing, although will finish well ahead of All In. Streaming PPV in the U.S. on B/R Live was up, although we don’t know by how much. TNT did a one hour hype show at 10 p.m. the night before, but on TNT, they pushed B/R Live as the way to see it and not traditional PPV as hard, so it made sense B/R numbers would be up.

> FITE TV worldwide numbers were down. The people who bought it on FITE wouldn’t have seen the hype show. Losing Omega vs. Moxley may have been the key there and with traditional PPV. But ITV PPV numbers in the U.K. were up. The impression was that they expected to end up about the same as the last show, which would be considered a success. But based on the U.S. PPV numbers, I think it’ll be down slightly, since TV PPV was down in almost every city we’ve gotten numbers from.

> The only straight number we have, which is U.S. television PPV, looks to be about 28,000 buys. Double or Nothing as of a few days after was closer to 35,000 and ended up 39,000, so this should have another ten to 12 percent added to that number when all is said and done. All this together would indicate something around 100,000, which, while not up from last time, does show staying power which was the big question. It’s still above what any company other than WWE/F and WCW ever did, and many of those companies had weekly television on strong stations. It also beat most of the WCW shows at the end.

> On both television PPV and B/R, 46 percent of those ordering had ordered Double or Nothing. That means 54 percent didn’t. Does that mean they made new fans after the first show? Does it mean people picked and chose and some didn’t want to buy the first, and others didn’t want to buy this one? If that’s the case, then the hardcore audience willing to spend money for the product right now as far as PPV goes is much larger than we anticipated. But it’s also an audience less apt to buy every one. But the number of new orders, as well as non-repeating orders, to me, were both surprisingly high. So if there is a lesson from the number, that would be it. But everything changes next month.

> Unlike with live gates where there is a several month lag to the results and increases television gives you, the only examples of a new company doing TV after getting television for the first time, which would be TNA and UFC both in 2005, was that the increase in numbers there were immediate. But 2005 and 2019 are completely different when it comes to television, and also, with lower priced streaming of WWE and New Japan, and now boxing, the mentality regarding PPV has changed and it’s a far tougher business. In that sense, these numbers are even more impressive now. But it’s not about now, it’s about what happens across the board once TV hits.

> After the PPV went off the air, Cody called out Tony Khan, acting like Khan didn’t know he was being called out, basically to thank him for all he had done to launch the company as the unsung hero. Khan then talked about creating a tradition. His idea is to try and do what the Greensboro Coliseum had from 1961 to 1986 before they dropped it, as a Thanksgiving tradition. The idea is to do All Out as one of the company’s signature events of the year every Labor Day weekend at the Sears Center, and then come back with a TV shoot the night before Thanksgiving, also at the Sears Center, which this year is 11/27.

> This year that’s quite a challenge because WWE has four shows in the market at the Allstate Arena, Smackdo…

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