WWE's 'Saturday Night's Main Event' Returns with 2.3M Viewers, Outperforming NBA Cup Semifinal

The iconic wrestling program aired its first episode in 16 years, drawing a larger total audience than the NBA Cup game on the same night.

WWE's 'Saturday Night's Main Event' returned on NBC and Peacock, attracting 2.3 million viewers, with 1.59 million on NBC and 700,000 streaming on Peacock.
The event outperformed the NBA Cup semifinal between the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder, which drew 1.89 million viewers on ABC.
This marked the first 'Saturday Night's Main Event' since 2008, with the show taking place at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the site of the original 1985 broadcast.
The event featured notable matches, including Cody Rhodes defeating Kevin Owens in the main event and Chelsea Green becoming the first WWE Women’s United States Champion.
The broadcast is part of WWE's new five-year rights deal with NBCUniversal, with the next quarterly special scheduled for January 25, 2025, in San Antonio, Texas.