SmackDown above 3 million viewers again

[Crayo]

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/01/17/friday-cable-ratings-gold-rush-more-golden-smackdown-merlin-real-time-with-bill-maher-more/116579/

3.131 million, highest rating of the Daniel Bryan reign, and substantially up on last week's 2.589 million - which in turn was an unusually low rating for SmackDown as of late. Either way, the highest SmackDown viewership since December 9th.

 

[seabs]

So Bryan = ratings?

 

[Crayo]

Too soon to say probably, was quite low last week but this week is epic. Will be interesting to see what happens this week when he's against Mr Ratings Mark Henry.

 

[seabs]

Hopefully this along with Punk's shirt sales shows Vince that gambles can pay off if the talent is good enough. So he takes more chances rather then settling for the same ME scene like we saw from 2006-2009.

 

[Crayo]

Definitely. Ziggler, Rhodes, Punk, Bryan, Miz, Riley (in the future) and Clay will be a nice future ME scene.