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Friday, January 3 2020 Issue #5813
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DYNAMITE RATING

- The much-hyped Homecoming edition of Dynamite on New Year's Day pulled in 967,000 viewers, an increase of 284,000 viewers from the December 18 episode. The show did a 0.36 rating in the 18-49 demographic which placed AEW in #13 in the top 50 cable chart. With NXT running a Best Of episode, AEW easily won the ratings war this week. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)

KILLER KROSS FILES APPLICATION TO TRADEMARK HIS WRESTLING NAME

- Killer Kross, the former Impact Wrestling star who was recently given his release from the company, applied to trademark his wrestling name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on December 24, 2019. Kross, real name Robert Kesar, filed for the trademark himself a week after he got free from Impact Wrestling, noting that the first use of his name was on May 13, 2014. The word mark was filed under entertainment services, namely wrestling exhibits and performances by a professional wrestler and entertainer. The free agent has not signed with any promotion yet although many expect him to join his girlfriend Scarlett Bordeaux at the WWE Performance Center and NXT. Kross had been in hot water with Impact Wrestling ever since the Slammiversary pay-per-view in July where he refused to blade in his first blood match against Eddie Edwards due to Impact failing to provide a doctor, ambulance, and testing at the show. Impact ended up punishing him for it for five months and was l
eft out of all television tapings that came after that show. He asked for his release in May of this year, something which obviously did not help matters either.

SMACKDOWN PREVIEW

- Two matches have been announced for tonight's first Smackdown of 2020 on FOX. The first match announced was a triple threat women's tag team match featuring Bayley and Sasha Banks versus Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross vs Dana Brooke and Lacey Evans and then later in the day WWE also announced that Roman Reigns will be teaming up with Daniel Bryan to take on Dolph Ziggler and Baron Corbin. No other segments have been announced yet for the broadcast which will take place from the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee. With no Monday Night Football as competition until later this year, Monday Night Raw is expected to get some of its viewership back which might lead to Smackdown losing the most-watched WWE show title it has kept since moving to FOX.

WWE HIRES VIDEO GAME JOURNALIST DANIEL RYCKERT AS PRODUCER OF WWE PODCAST NETWORK

- WWE has hired 35-year-old video game journalist and producer Daniel Ryckert to work behind-the-scenes on the WWE Podcast Network as a producer. "Throughout my life, my two biggest passions have always been video games and wrestling. I was so fortunate to make a living working in one of those industries, and now it's time to try the other. Starting Monday, I'll be producing podcasts both in-house and on the road for WWE," Ryckert wrote on Twitter. Ryckert will be working on both After The Bell and The New Day: Feel the Power podcasts. Ryckert was recently employed by CBS Interactive where he appeared on the Giant Bombcast and Giant Beastcast podcast. He previously was senior associate editor at GameStop's Game Informer magazine.

NXT RATING

- Running a Best Of episode combined with NXT Year End Awards, this week's taped episode only did 548,000 viewers, down 283,000 viewers from last week's Christmas Day episode which ran unopposed. NXT did a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic, placing it in #66 in the top 50 cable chart. The difference between the two shows was of 419,000 viewers, expected since NXT had replays of best matches rather than a first-run show. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)

WWE BACKSTAGE RATING

- The New Year's Eve episode of WWE Backstage did just 97,000 viewers. Considering it started at 11PM ET, it's actually amazing that so many still tuned in till the stroke of Midnight. It was down 56,000 viewers from the previous week. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)


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