WWE Television Ratings

[Heisenberg]

- As noted before, the April 30th WWE RAW Supershow scored a 3.33 cable rating with 4.87 million viewers. Below is the segment breakdown:

The first segment with Brock Lesnar, Triple H and John Laurinaitis did a 3.53 quarter rating and was the highest-rated segment of the show. The second quarter only lost 9,000 fans. Santino Marella vs. The Miz and Layla vs. Brie Bella vs. Nikki Bella lost 479,000 viewers. Chris Jericho vs. Big Show and JTG vs. Brodus Clay gained 282,000 viewers back.

Jack Swagger vs. Randy Orton lost 68,000 viewers in the 10pm timeslot. R-Truth and Kofi Kingston defeating Primo and Epico for the tag titles lost 245,000 viewers while Kane vs. The Great Khali gained 81,000 viewers. Daniel Bryan vs. Jerry Lawler in the final match lost 198,000 viewers while the final segment with John Cena, Lord Tensai, John Laurinaitis and Sakomoto gained 578,000 viewers for a 3.49 overrun rating.

 

[Troy]

Good ratings for the Lesnar and Cena appearances but nothing else really stands out. The mainevent match losing 198k viewers is really bad and it shows that fans didn't really want to see Lawler in that spot.

 

[Heisenberg]

Final 5/4 WWE Smackdown Rating
This past Friday night's edition of WWE Smackdown drew a 1.94 cable rating, which is up from last week's 1.74 cable rating. The show took in 2.71 viewers compared to last week's 2.68 million viewers.

EVE = RATINGS

 

[Big Red Jericho Punk]

Eve= horrible acting but a nice rack.

 

[Troy]

Good bounce back for Smackdown. Down the line it really needs to be hitting 2.0 at least every week.

The 5/7 edition of Raw did a 3.0 rating, with 4,312,000 viewers. The show did hours of 3.1 and 2.94

No surprise that with Lesnar gone the rating drops a bit. Pretty bad that they keep losing viewers as the show goes on, they really need to reorganise the structure of the shows and make it so that they draw more people in as the show goes on rather than turn them away.

 

[Prodigy]

They need to stop putting on crap shows, that's why they lose viewers.

 

[Troy]

They need to fix their midcard. The mainevent storylines are fine but the show needs a strong middle to ensure that viewers stick with the show for the whole two hours. Imagine if the US, IC, Tag Team and Divas divisions were all strong then the show would be packed every week and the viewers would tune in. WWE need to realise that fans want an entire product rather than just a mainevent.

 

[Heisenberg]

- As noted before, the May 7th WWE RAW Supershow from Greensboro, North Carolina scored a 3.01 cable rating with 4.30 million viewers. The first quarter-rating was a 3.50 but things fell apart from there.

In the segment breakdown, Big Show vs. Cody Rhodes lost 378,000 viewers and Kofi Kingston vs. Dolph Ziggler lost 465,000 more viewers. Kelly Kelly and Layla vs. Maxine and Natalya lost another 207,000 viewers. Sheamus and Randy Orton vs. Chris Jericho and Alberto Del Rio at the top of the hour gained 191,000 viewers, which is weak for that timeslot - doing a 2.89 quarter-rating.

The Miz vs. Brodus Clay gained 55,000 viewers in what is usually a losing segment. Paul Heyman's return gained 123,000 viewers. CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan and Lord Tensai in the overrun actually lost viewers - 105,000 for a 2.94 rating. It's almost impossible to lose viewers in the overrun because you've got people tuning into the USA Network for their next show.

Lost viewership in the overrun HOPEFULLY will open some eyes to show that the A-Train character is not that interesting.

Brodus Clay always draws viewers for some reason.

CM Punk main event losing viewers isn't a shock as they haven't put him over enough or given him a big enough push to be WWE Champion. They need to do something to REALLY push it. Because right now, it seems like a lot of people just don't care about Punk. They should do what Steve Austin did to the McMahon's. Have Punk absolutely embarrass Laurinaitis and cause him grief and drama. Remember the days of Stone Cold and the zamboni? Or DX with the numerous pranks on Vince and Shane? Punk needs to do something with Laurinaitis. He's the type of guy, that looks like he loves giving authority a hard time.

 

[The Cork]

Daniel Bryan losing ratings yet again, what a surprise.

 

[Chris]

Despite being a fan of Punk and Bryan, huge marks for both, all three of them are to blame. Tensai is being rushed before they can build him up to be a big name. WWE's fault for not letting Punk close but like 1 show since he's been champ. Same with Bryan as well.

 

[Dale]

Lost viewership in the overrun HOPEFULLY will open some eyes to show that the A-Train character is not that interesting.

Brodus Clay always draws viewers for some reason.

CM Punk main event losing viewers isn't a shock as they haven't put him over enough or given him a big enough push to be WWE Champion. They need to do something to REALLY push it. Because right now, it seems like a lot of people just don't care about Punk. They should do what Steve Austin did to the McMahon's. Have Punk absolutely embarrass Laurinaitis and cause him grief and drama. Remember the days of Stone Cold and the zamboni? Or DX with the numerous pranks on Vince and Shane? Punk needs to do something with Laurinaitis. He's the type of guy, that looks like he loves giving authority a hard time.

Yeah that's not a totally biased opinion is it, blame Tensai for the overrun despite there being 3 guys in it and funnily enough two of them you actually like..

Also, that excuse for Punk is just totally bullshit and kind of embarassing. The guy has had roughly a year long push, must have held the title at least close to half of that and has come off a pretty decent, intense feud with Jericho. He's constantly butting heads and feuded with Ace, feuded with HHH and feuded with Cena briefly so to say he hasn't been given a big enough push is laughable.

 

[Deezy]

LOL @ the innernetz faves getting shit on, because more people like them.

Keep going against that grain you trendsetters you.

 

[The Cork]

Because hating Cena is so rational and original.

You fail again.

 

[Heisenberg]

Yeah that's not a totally biased opinion is it, blame Tensai for the overrun despite there being 3 guys in it and funnily enough two of them you actually like..

Also, that excuse for Punk is just totally bullshit and kind of embarassing. The guy has had roughly a year long push, must have held the title at least close to half of that and has come off a pretty decent, intense feud with Jericho. He's constantly butting heads and feuded with Ace, feuded with HHH and feuded with Cena briefly so to say he hasn't been given a big enough push is laughable.

Yeah the feud where he lost his momentum to HHH and then his latest feud where it's about "Hay i dont drink beerz, dnt talk about ma family chris, ima kik ur ass"

 

[Dale]

Oh you spelt a whole bunch of words intentionally wrong, that really argued your point.