TNA/WWE UK Television Ratings

[rcoot93]

Impact on April 22 2012 scored 179,000 viewers
Lockdown on 25 April got 181,000 viewers
Smackdown 113,000 viewers
Raw 171,000 viewers

 

[Dale]

It's hilarious how many people will watch TNA's PPV's when it's put on free tv. That's like roughly 10x the actual buyrate give or a take?

 

[Troy]

I think that it is closer to 20x the real buyrate. What time did they show Lockdown in the UK and are all TNA PPVs free in the UK?

 

[Dale]

Yeah TNA is totally free in the UK unlike WWE. Their PPV's always air free aswell i'm just not sure when, maybe a couple of days or a week after i'm not sure.

 

[Troy]

No wonder it has a higher viewership then.

In Australia the only wrestling on free tv other than some terrible Australian stuff is WWE Experience.

 

[rcoot93]

I always wonder what ratings WWE would get if they were on free tv as they are very clse to TNA's at the minute and some weeks beat them. I feel the only reason why TNA is constantly doing better is because it's free if WWE were to follow suit TNA would be destroyed.

 

[Troy]

I agree, if WWE were on free tv in the UK they would smash the rating. One because it would be available to a lot more homes than Sky and it would also be on a bigger network than Challenge TV so it should outrate TNA by a fair bit.

 

[rcoot93]

Impact on 29th April 245,000
Raw on 23rd April 163,000
Smackdown on 27th April 87,000
Extreme rules preview 27,000
WWE experiance 18,000
WWE special (don't know what this is but deffiently not extreme rules) 17,000

Quite a big dfference this week but Raw always does well even though it's on at 2am.
WWE would do great on free tv but I don't see it hapenning seing as they get revune form ppv etc.
Wouldn't be surprised if TNA did the same sort of thing in a few years.

 

[rcoot93]

Impact on 6th May 181,000
Impact repeat on 1st may 121,000
Raw on 30th April 165,000
Smackdown on 4th may 86,000
Smackdown repeat on 5th may 44,000
Smackdown 2nd repeat on 5th may 25,000
Afterburn 34,000

 

[rcoot93]

Impact on 13th May 202,000

Sky sports viewing figures unavilaible this week so can't see what WWE got

 

[rcoot93]

TNA Sacrifice on 16th May 174,000 on challenge plus1 27,000
Impact on 20th May 214,000

Raw 14th May 218,000
Smackdown on 18th May 104,00
WWE Over the Limit live on 20th May 234,000
Bottom line 31,000

 

[rcoot93]

Impact 27th May 200,000
Impact on challenge plus 1 27th May 21,000
Raw live 21st May 133,000
Smackdown 25th May 90,000

 

[The Cork]

Used to be a lot closer than this until they started pushing Daniel Bryan, now TNA is killing WWE.

 

[rcoot93]

Impact tuesday 29th May (repeat) 170,000, challenge plus 1 27,000
Impact sunday 3rd June (new) 220,000, challenge plus 1 24,000
Raw live 28th May 176,000, repeat thursday 35,000 repeat on friday 26,000,
Smackdown 1st June 134,000

 

[rcoot93]

Impact June 10th 151,000 on challenge plus 1 27,000
Raw live 4th June 171,000
Smackdown 8th June 91,000

Huge decrease for Impact and Smackdown, don't understand why ratings don't stay consistant like U.S