Raw last night, coming off the Crown Jewel PPV show, did 1.52 million viewers with an 0.47 in 18-49, the best total viewer number since the show after the Fastlane PPV on 10/9.
Because of issues at Nielsen on Tuesday, the competition numbers such as the NFL game with the Los Angeles Chargers vs. New York Jets, were not available at press time.
With daylight savings time over, like clockwork, Raw reverted back to its usual fall pattern where the audience declines in each hour, as opposed to grows and peaks in hour two. It was a healthy increase from last week which had both the NFL and the World Series in competition.
The show also featured Seth Rollins vs. Sami Zayn for the World Heavyweight title, the first World title match on the show in five months. The final quarter did 1.37 million viewers, up from 1.20 million for the record low final quarter last week. It was up nine percent in viewers from last week, up nine percent in 18-49 and up 22 percent in 18-34.
From one year ago, the show was down four percent in viewers, up 11 percent in 18-49 and up 19 percent in 18-34, again showing the pattern that has been the case of lowering numbers over 50 but big increases in the key demo, particularly 18-34. This is even with a drop of six percent in the number of homes that get the station now as compared to one year ago.
The hours were:
- 8 p.m. 1.61 million viewers
- 9 p.m. 1.56 million viewers
- 10 p.m. 1.40 million viewers
