AEW Dynamite Makes Its National Television Debut On TNT

by Mark Long

Just ten months after officially forming All Elite Wrestling, LLC, AEW Dynamite makes its national television debut on TNT. Emanating live from the nation’s capital, the young company continued its streak of sold-out shows and moved over 10,000 tickets in just three hours, eventually drawing a capacity crowd of 14,129 raucous fans to Washington D.C.’s Capital One Center. Despite experiencing some minor production glitches, the two-hour inaugural episode of Dynamite was an unqualified success, garnering a 0.68 television rating and averaging over 1.4 million viewers for TNT, which placed it as the #2 ranked cable program of the night.