Ratings staying in line for a new champion with pretty on and off booking seems fine to me.- The December 23rd episode of WWE SmackDown scored a 1.95 cable rating with 2.74 million viewers.
^ Not a good sign at all :/
All things considered this is as good as they could have hoped for.nodq.com said:– The December 26, 2011 episode of the Raw SuperShow garnered a 2.93 cable rating, up from 2.92 the week before. It is the fourth consecutive week in which Raw has drawn below a 3.00 cable rating.
Monday’s show averaged 4,460,000 million viewers overall, up from 4,290,000 the week before. It also snapped an eight week streak of viewership declining during the second hour.
The first hour of Raw averaged 4,330,000 viewers during the first hour and 4,590,000 in the second. Monday’s show drew the most second hour viewers since November 21, 2011, the night following Survivor Series.
That's not nothing to try and give him credit for and if they were trippin over the ratings they're still gonna do so now. Punk's match pretty much was most of the 2nd hour so if you're gonna try and give Kane credit then it would make sense to give Punk credit since the 2nd hour did better than the first hour. All in all to me this was just a good the ratings didn't sink lower than last week due to the Drew Brees rating.
WrestleZone said:WWE Officials Discuss Michael Cole's Commentary
WWE officials held a meeting last week after the RAW ratings came in, during which Michael Cole's commentary was discussed according to F4Wonline.com.
TV rating's patterns show fans have little interest in seeing anyone on TV besides the top Superstars. It was considered that a reason why might be Cole's continual burial of talent on Raw and Smackdown for the past year or so.
As noted earlier, there has been internal discussion about how Michael Cole has buried talents over the past year and how that burying hasn't helped them any. Zack Ryder and Daniel Bryan were specifically brought up as far as Cole burying them goes. It was pointed out that Cole has put them down in commentary forever and both haven't been booked as main event talents up until recently and it showed when they had to rely on Bryan, Ryder and CM Punk to carry the RAW main event, which flopped, a few weeks back.