In a surprise of sorts, last night's Raw, built around appearances by John Cena and Logan Paul, while up from last week, was the third-lowest number since the end of football season.
Raw averaged 1.83 million viewers with a 0.52 rating in 18-49 and 0.37 in 18-34. People 35-49 were actually down from last week. But as expected, the 18-34 demo was up with a strong third hour in that category likely due to Cena being on in hour three.
With Cena being held off until the top of hour three, the third hour drop was well under usual levels.
Raw was first on cable by a wide margin, with Below Deck on Bravo at 1.17 million/0.27 and Tucker Carlson at 3.70 million/0.27 as the second and third highest rated shows.
Raw was first with women 18-49 (0.35 to 0.34 over Below Deck), more than doubled everything on cable in men 18-49 and people 18-34, won with women 12-34 and men 12-34, and doubled everything in men 12-34, and in fact tripled everything but ESPN programming.
Raw also beat every program on network TV except The Bachelor on ABC, The Voice on NBC, and 911 on Fox. So it beat ABC in hour three, beat CBS the entire night (although those were all repeats), beat NBC in hour three, and beat Fox in the second hour.
Raw was up three percent in viewers, up two percent in 18-49, and up six percent in 18-34 from last week.
From one year ago, the show was up three percent in viewers, up 13 percent in 18-49, and up 37 percent in 18-34.
The first-to-third hour drops were eight percent with women 18-49, three percent in men 18-49, 24 percent in women 12-34, but men 12-34 were up 18 percent from the first to third hour, likely due to Cena. People over 50 were down 10 percent.
The three hours were:
- 8 p.m. 1.89 million viewers
- 9 p.m. 1.86 million viewers
- 10 p.m. 1.74 million viewers
