WWE Television Ratings

[Troy]

That is a monster number for a three hour show, great news that the number continued to build each hour as it should. No NBA Playoffs would have helped as would Vince returning. I wonder how many tuned in to see Johnny Ace get fired?

 

[The Cork]

The number jumped for Ryback, not Vince.

 

[Troy]

Ryback has been on RAW the past couple of weeks, this is the first time in months Vince has appeared therefore Vince must have brought in all the extra viewers.

 

[Crippler]

The number jumped for Ryback, not Vince.

:RYBACK:

 

[Heisenberg]

- As noted before, the June 11th WWE RAW Supershow did a 3.23 cable rating with 4.65 million viewers over three-hours. The usual two hours did a 3.46 rating with 4.99 million viewers.

The show opened with Vince McMahon returning at a 2.88 rating, well above the usual start of a three-hour RAW. Tensai vs. Sheamus lost 415,000 viewers while Tensai attacking Sakomoto, Big Show knocking out R-Truth and Vince's segment with Teddy Long and John Laurinaitis gained 146,000 viewers.

Santino Marella and Layla vs. Beth Phoenix and Ricardo Rodriguez and the backstage segment with Vince and Daniel Bryan gained 98,000 viewers. Bryan's segment with CM Punk, Kane and AJ Lee gained 978,000 viewers for the 9pm time slot, RAW's usual start time.

The Christian vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. The Great Khali vs. Jack Swagger match and Ryback's squash gained 4,000 viewers. The backstage segment with Vince and Hornswoggle making fun of Jim Ross lost 145,000 viewers. Big Show vs. Kofi Kingston in the cage match at 10pm gained 320,000 viewers for a 3.59 quarter rating.

Curt Hawkins vs. Sin Cara lost 450,000 viewers while Vader vs. Heath Slater gained 324,000 more viewers, an impressive gain for that time in the show. The main event with AJ and Punk vs. Bryan and Kane lost 19,000 viewers. The final segment with Vince, Laurinaitis, John Cena and Big Show gained 721,000 viewers for a 3.99 quarter rating in the overrun.

Wow, they almost hit a 4.0 with the overrun. That is fucking excellent! Maybe WWE's rating will stay well above 3.0 when they go 3hrs full time.

 

[Troy]

Would have been many months since they hit 4.0 in the overrun. Did they even do that before WM28? The worrying part is the ending segment that drew was Cena/Show so that means WWE will probably close the PPV with them.

 

[We Are Legion]

The backstage segment with Vince and Hornswoggle making fun of Jim Ross lost 145,000 viewers.

JR: 1
Vince: 0

 

[The Cork]

Well, JR still has Bells Palsy, so it's at least 1-1.

 

[Heisenberg]

This past Friday night's edition of WWE Smackdown, which was the go-home show for the No Way Out PPV, drew a 1.75 cable rating, which is up slightly from the previous week's 1.73 draw.

The show, however, averaged 2.41 million viewers, which is down from last week's 2.48 million viewers.

It sucked so I'm surprised the rating is even that high.

 

[Chris]

Still not a very good rating though.

 

[Troy]

Can't seem to get away from that 1.75 rating. Wonder where the other .25 went, it didn't greadually drop it suddenly went down a couple of months back never to be seen again.

 

[Heisenberg]

Final 6/18 WWE Raw Rating: Did Triple H Help the Show?
The official Raw rating for this week's show, featuring the return of Triple H and Paul Heyman to WWE television, as well as the "goodbye" segment for John Laurinaitis, was a 3.4 according to the Wrestling Observer. This is up from last week's rating, which saw the advertised return of Vince McMahon.

Pretty good rating and I guess it was because not many watched the PPV so they had to tune in to find out what happened and the aftermath of Big Johnny. Oh and people probably tuned into RAW in hope to see Lesnar. I do think the ratings will be consistent leading into the 1000th RAW. Does the guest appearance/host idea work for ratings? And but what if the bad RAW on Monday will make people tune out next week now? This isn't always yes as sometimes a lot of people vote thumbs down but on WWE's poll these were the results:

Did you enjoy tonight's episode of Monday Night Raw?

Thumbs up - 6379 votes

Thumbs down - 666 votes

But yeah, I wanna see the breakdown.

 

[Troy]

Good rating again, remained steady with what they did in the last two hours last week. It should continue to rise with Lesnar coming back and with the 1000th RAW which should be packed with stars.

 

[Chris]

Another good rating, be interested to see the breakdown when it comes out.

 

[PHX]

Said it last week and will say it this week no NBA playoff game during raw is one of the main reasons it's back to these kind of numbers.