SNME Rating sucks.

[MikeRaw]

Written by Marc Middleton, on 04-08-2008 20:05
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- Internally, the low rating of the most recent WWE Saturday Night's Main Event is viewed as a disaster. While WWE and NBC both wasn't expecting a huge increase from the previous show, they definitely needed something higher than a 1.4 or 1.5. A network like NBC can't afford to have a rating that low, even on Saturday nights.

On the other hand, the belief is WWE is willing to risk some things to appear to be "in" that Hollywood scene.

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Sorry WWE, maybe next time, you won't book it for an hour. Peopel won't see it as improtant if it's only an hour, plus, having Khali have a squash match against Jimmy Yang on the card didn't help.

 

[dlw2711]

Maybe they should also make it live. Taping it when you tape Raw means that some people have seen the show 6 days before it airs on NBC. If they really want to beef up SNME, they should remember what they did on that episode where Shane-O had the Sharpshooter on HBK and Vince called for the bell. I believe that got at least a 2 on the Neilsen scale.

 

[Dre]

WWE didn't advertise the SNME Show. That's the main problem.

 

[MikeRaw]

^Yes they did.
NBC ran commercials for it quite a bit. And they talked about it on Raw, so anyone watching raw knew about it.

 

[chessarmy]

as lots of you already mentioned it was only 1 hour long and it also wasn't live. If WWE is going to keep doing SNME's, they should tape it by itself and just stack the card so people watch it and buy tickets if its in their area.

 

[Montana]

They didnt promote the event, they were basically like " watch snme, jenny mcarthy will be there" and that was it. They didnt hype up ANY matches. There was NO reason what so ever to tune into that show. NBC didnt even have the show on at the right time in my area. SNME worked well in the 80's, but now, if they aren't going to even feature the wwe champ, whats the point.

 

[MikeRaw]

They didnt promote the event, they were basically like " watch snme, jenny mcarthy will be there" and that was it. They didnt hype up ANY matches. There was NO reason what so ever to tune into that show. NBC didnt even have the show on at the right time in my area. SNME worked well in the 80's, but now, if they aren't going to even feature the wwe champ, whats the point.

Well, about the wwe champion, HHH just had a baby, so I can see why he wasn't there, but Punk was.
But my point is, why should they hype it up huge? If it's a ppv, then yes. But people tune in to Raw and SD every week without hype, so with this, everyone knew it was on (there was no huge hype, but they knew it was on from wwe sayin git) so if they wanted to tune in, they could've.
So I guess what I'm saying is, I agree with you they the reason people didn't tune in was it wasn't a great card at all (as I said in my firsst post), but I don;t think lack of hype had anything to do with it.

 

[-TJ-]

1 Hour long. Not live, No ECW represented. A squash match. The best match was Edge vs. Jeff Hardy.

On another note, hopefully this will teach WWE a lesson and they would have to pull off something outta their ass next time or else they going bye bye from NBC.

 

[CenaMark54]

Honestly, the WWE is blowing it in primetime.

They should be putting out killer cards, instead of making it a glorified episode of Heat. There is no reason to have Khali or Wang Yang on the show.

It should be live like someone mentioned. They should have all main eventers in one on one matches. They should try to showcase their product to a mainstream audience by putting on the best matches possible. Hardy/Edge was good, but the rest was average at best.

And Jenny McCarthy is not a draw. I'm glad they are helping the fight against autism and all, but the whole promotion of the show was based on appearences by her and a few other celebrities. Viewers get enough of this on a regular basis.

 

[The Showstopper]

It would get better ratings if they have a Stone Cold return or something interesting like they did a while back.

 

[Airfixx]

^^^yeah, like Stone Cold will be around forever to answer their prayers and save their ass (Also See GM-debate). Time to move on. --->>



First off.... The original SNME's were all 1 hour shows when broadcast.

Second, To get as much as they did into one episode, they couldn't do it live(Interview segments edited into the show etc.) - 3-4 matches plus interviews and ad breaks in an hour takes some doing!

This is one of the reasons, I think it harms the product having so much of the mic time in the ring... Too much time is taken with ring entrances, soaking up crowd pops etc. (Sometimes it's good... Provoking face-offs etc, but it's done too much and slows the shows down. Not to mention that it's generally acknowledged that only a small proportion of the roster have good enough mic skills to actually acheive their goal of promoting and hyping the matches/events.).

If they used the old concept of the interview centre they could cram more into a one hour special (and secondarily also give some of the guys a chance to work on their mic skills).

Beyond this, I agree with Montana... The card simply needed to be better.

Punk v JBL would have been ideal and we could have then perhaps had a slightly more tantalising match up for SSlam, but ultimately they need to treat it like a mini-PPV (If indeed the intention is to promote SSLam) and provide a taster of the quality you're gonna get if you pay for £14.99 (or whatever PPVs cost in the US).