While AEW’s audience is on a steady increase since the end of Wednesday night wars, NXT doesn’t seem to be attracting a lot of new viewers. This week’s episode of it has recorded the lowest audience since the show’s premiere.

This Tuesday’s edition of the Black and Yellow brand on SyFy drew a total of 520,000 viewers according to Nielsen which is the lowest TV viewership in the show’s history.

Last week’s episode of NXT drew 709,000 viewers. The numbers this week saw a big 20.5% decline compared to last week’s average audience.

The episode drew a 0.12 rating in the much talked 18-49 demographic which is a 40% decline from last week’s 0.20 ratings in the same demo.

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USA Network was airing the Olympics this week due to which NXT was moved to SyFy. This change and the competition from the Olympics seem to have been important factors in the big rating drop.

The show will air on SyFy next week as well so the ratings aren’t expected to improve much. NXT will return to USA Network for the August 10 episode and we will have to see how the viewership rebounds for that episode.

SyFy announced earlier today that a weekly 2-hour (edited down) edition of WWE RAW is coming to the network.

The 2-hour RAW will air Friday nights from 8-10pm EST, the former home of SmackDown. SyFy is of course part of the NBCUniversal family, so it’s an extension of WWE’s relationship with the company.

It will be interesting to see how the rating fares. The Friday night RAW replay probably won’t draw anything close to what the first run show does, but Syfy knows it will still bring viewers and will perform better than a lot of other programming would.

The Tuesday, December 16th special live edition of WWE SmackDown on the USA Network scored a final cable rating of 1.51, according to Nielsen Media Research. The number was down a considerable amount from the previous week’s taped airing in the usual Friday slot on SyFy, which drew a 1.74 final rating.

Tuesday’s SmackDown “Super Show” averaged 2.027 million viewers, which was also down quite a bit from the average of 2.531 million viewers for last week’s show in the usual time slot.

– The official SyFy Network schedule that at one point had WWE SmackDown listed as a Thursday night show, has updated to now list the show as airing on Friday nights.

– WWE posted the following tweet on their official Twitter account to promote tonight’s Divas tag-team match.

The @BellaTwins on opposing teams?! Brie teams w/ @WWEAJLee vs. Nikki & @RealPaigeWWE TONIGHT! http://t.co/ya9EIpSZC3 pic.twitter.com/lTiwu6NTFt

— WWE (@WWE) September 15, 2014

– Originally, WWE wasn’t planning on announcing the SmackDown move to Thursday nights until September. The belief now, however, since the news got out and SyFy announced the time slot change in their updated calendar, is that WWE may go ahead and promote the move sooner.

– In addition to the return of John Cena and the segment featuring the WWE Hall Of Famers on tonight’s RAW, another thing WWE is advertising is what the new direction for Seth Rollins will be now that Dean Ambrose is out of the picture.

As noted recently, WWE is rumored to be moving SmackDown to Thursday nights in the near future. The rumors spread when WWE production trucks at a television taping had graphics that listed SmackDown as airing Thursday nights on SyFy.

As of now, neither WWE or SyFy have officially confirmed the rumors. WWE has acknowledged the possibility of a move, but had yet to confirm it.

Today, SyFy released their upcoming programming guide, which lists WWE SmackDown as airing on Thursday nights beginning on October 2nd.

Check out the SyFy listing at SyFy.com.

On Monday’s post-SummerSlam edition of WWE RAW, many announcements were made regarding matches and segments on several of WWE’s upcoming television shows.

First up, on WWE Main Event, which airs live on the WWE Network on Tuesday night, Big Show vs. Erick Rowan is the featured match.

On Friday’s edition of SmackDown on SyFy, which will be taped on Tuesday night, Randy Orton vs. Rob Van Dam is one of the featured matches.

Finally, on next week’s edition of RAW, John Cena will “address the WWE Universe” for the first time since losing his WWE World Heavyweight Championship to Brock Lesnar at the SummerSlam pay-per-view on Sunday night in Los Angeles, California.

As noted previously, TNA and Spike TV announced today that Impact Wrestling will move to Wednesday nights beginning with next week’s show.

The decision for the move was reportedly made within the past few days and one of the key reasons behind the switch was all of the competition that TNA faces on Thursday nights, with NFL games on CBS and the rumored move of WWE SmackDown to Thursday nights on SyFy.

The first edition of TNA Impact Wrestling on Wednesday will air next week, August 20th on Spike TV.

As noted recently, WWE is possibly moving SmackDown to Thursday nights on the SyFy Network, as opposed to keeping it in their normal Friday time slot. At this point, WWE themselves have only acknowledged the rumors in the sense that they claim they are contemplating the idea of making the move, despite the fact that WWE production trucks had SmackDown labeled as “airing on Thursday nights.”

In a move that could be considered as further evidence that SmackDown is changing nights, SyFy announced recently that their original series “Haven,” which features Adam “Edge” Copeland as one of the stars of the show, is moving from Friday at 10pm EST. (after SmackDown) to Thursday at 10pm EST.

SyFy has reportedly always liked the idea of putting “Haven” on immediately after SmackDown, as it features a former popular WWE Superstar in Edge, which allows them to better monetize the wrestling audience.

If SmackDown does move to Thursday at 8pm on SyFy as rumored, “Haven,” now airing at 10pm on SyFy on Thursday night would still immediately follow it.