WWE Television Ratings

[Troy]

Good to see that the rating increased throughout the show, fans were actually inteterested in seeing Punk wrestle three matches and then they also wanted to see Kane again. I still think that ratings will start to rise after the holidays leading into the Road to WrestleMania.

 

[Prodigy]

The 12/30 edition of Smackdown did a 1.93 rating with 2,822,000 viewers.

Dropped once more but I still think being in Holiday Season may of affected it.

 

[Andrew]

Monday’s WWE Raw Supershow did a 3.1 cable rating off hours of 3.2 and 3.02 with an average viewing audience of 4,438,000 viewers on the USA Network.

 

[The Cork]

I'd love to see how many turned over after the Jericho stuff.

 

[SAIYANS]

This is notes about the past Monday, not the one this week

- As noted before, the December 26th WWE RAW Supershow scored a 2.93 cable rating and 4.47 million viewers. This is the show where the trend stopped of RAW's second hour losing viewers from the first.

The CM Punk and John Laurinaitis segment drew a 2.94 quarter rating. Booker T vs. Cody Rhodes lost 149,000 viewers while Backstage segments with John Cena, Zack Ryder, Big Show, Kelly Kelly, John Laurinaitis and others gained 78,000 viewers. Ryder and Eve Torres vs. Natalya and Tyson Kidd with a John Cena interview lost 67,000 more viewers.

Cena vs. The Miz and the attack from R-Truth gained 325,000 viewers, which is below the average but better than recent weeks for that timeslot. Big Show vs. David Otunga with one of Show's arms behind his back and the Alberto Del Rio interview with The Bella Twins gained 34,000 viewers. CM Punk vs. Jack Swagger to kick off the Gauntlet match lost 367,000 viewers while Punk vs. Ziggler gained 172,000 back, doing a 2.91 average rating for the main event.

The overrun segment with John Cena and Kane gained 543,000 viewers for a 3.26 quarter rating. With Kane and Cena ending RAW, the rating for Male Teens went from a 2.8 to a 3.1, Males 18-49 went from a 2.8 to a 3.2, Female Teens went from a 1.0 to a 1.3 and Females 18-49 stayed at a 1.0 rating.

KANE

 

[Heisenberg]

I thought this would fit in here, if not, a staff member can move it to the appropriate section.

Price Of WWE RAW Tickets Now More Than Smackdown

WWE is now charging higher ticket prices for RAW events than SmackDown shows. SmackDown is now doing better in relation to RAW but RAW is drawing bigger gates. Here are some recent attendance figures:

RAW on December 27th in New York City drew 14,000 fans, around 11,000 paid for $675,000

RAW on December 28th in Pittsburgh drew 8,500 fans for $330,000

SmackDown on December 28th in Detroit drew 10,000 fans for $330,000

RAW on December 29th in Washington, DC drew 8,000 fans for $320,000

SmackDown on December 29th in Buffalo drew 8,200 fans for $230,000

RAW on December 30th in Hartford, CT drew 8,500 fans for $250,000

SmackDown on December 30th in East Rutherford, NJ drew 9,500 fans for $350,000

 

[Troy]

Smackdown getting a 1.93 rating is disappointing but wasn't that the show where Bryan didn't even wrestle?

RAW getting a similar rating is no real surprise since WWE is struggling to keep people entertained for the two hours.

 

[Dale]

I really dont understand why the overuns actually count for anything. Yeah 500k+ plus people tuned in for the aftermath, but how many of those weren't there to see the WWE, but instead the program that was on after it?

 

[PHX]

I really dont understand why the overuns actually count for anything. Yeah 500k+ plus people tuned in for the aftermath, but how many of those weren't there to see the WWE, but instead the program that was on after it?

Glad someone else feels the same way I do about the overrun. I don't really care for ratings much in the first place but always found the overrun pretty useless to care about since like you said it's obviously for the show after it and probably just waiting for Raw to go off cause if they cared about Raw they would have been watching the whole show.

 

[SAIYANS]

USA has Raw slotted in that over run as Bonnie Hammer said years ago with the idea of selling the next week show. The next show on USA isn't scheduled to come on at 10/11 like with SD in SyFy in any tv guide. It was a concept she wanted to try for Raw and what her and the network look at. They also schedule previews directly after Raw for upcoming universal movies or shows such as Psych. It ain't like the show bleeds into a slot that was allotted in cable systems and tv guides? Marketing scheme by the lady in charge of the network and who even gave them their first deal

And @ Hatred, that is interesting and makes sense so thanks for posting. Why would I pay the same price to watch Orton, Bryan and Rhodes, when I can catch the company's other brand usually a hour or so away in a close town and watch hypothetically Rey, Kane, Punk, and Cena (I could see if Taker was active)? WWE could just tell folks we didn't raise our Raw prices, we lowered our SD prices as a good faith gesture. Funnily enough, I have SD tickets for this Sunday and the lowest ones were $15 while Raw usually comes to town and charges $25

 

[Heisenberg]

1/6 WWE SD! Rating: How Did The First 2012 Show Do?
The TV rating for the first Smackdown of 2012, which featured Booker T vs Cody Rhodes for the IC title and Daniel Bryan vs The Big Show for the World Title, finished with 2.59 million viewers. That's about .2 million less than last week's show.

This week's Smackdown did go up against the series finale of Disney's longest running series "Wizards of Waverly Place," which drew 9.76 million viewers and scored a 1.9 rating in the 18-49 demo. This is only the second straight week that Disney has beaten WWE in TV ratings on friday night. Last week they barely beat WWE with their show "Good Luck Charlie" which scored 3.19 million viewers.

WrestleZone reported this but it only says viewers, not the rating.

 

[Deuce]

-- Friday's episode of WWE SmackDown drew a 1.8 cable rating, with 2.58 million viewers. The show was down from a 1.92 rating with 2.82 million from the week before. It's the lowest number of viewers since August 5th and the lowest rating since mid-September. The show ranked #8 among cable shows for the night in overall viewers, #5 among in the male 18-34 demographic and #4 in the male 18-49 demo. The show was up against the series finale of "Wizards of Waverly Place" on Disney, which drew 10 million viewers, as well as the Cotton Bowl Classic on Fox.

Smackdown Ratings aren't doing very well.

 

[AZUCAR!]

The Raw rating is in:

The 1/9 edition of Raw did a 2.9 rating with 4,008,000 viewers. That is down from last week's 3.1 rating and 4,438,000 viewers. Once again, viewership dropped as the show went on as hour one did a 2.96 and hour two did a 2.77, and lost 176,000 viewers.

Before people point to the BCS Championship game on ESPN, while it did a 16.22 rating and 24,214,000 viewers, it was down about 15% from last year's game and by the end the game was a blowout so that would not explain people tuning out of Raw. Also, most of the broadcast networks ran repeats. So if Vince wants a reason as to why people left, let's try bad "horror" skits and having a guy unable to change a tire. It's a great place to start.

 

[PHX]

Can we now stop trying to blame Punk for the rating now after this? Like I said it's obviously a bigger problem than that cause this show Punk wasn't in the main event and wasn't even in a advertised match. Show was all based around Kane/Cena storyline and Jericho speaking.

 

[Deuce]

-- Last night's episode of WWE RAW fell a spot in the social media rankings from #3 to #2. The show had an Activity Score of 131,654, down 17% from last week's 158,704 and behind ABC's Pretty Little Liars and VH-1's Love & Hip Hop. The show's approval rating stayed even at 69%.

Thought I should've added this.