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WWE Television Ratings
- Thread starter Troy
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Very poor rating, what the fuck can WWE possibly do?
Make new superstars. Give a shit about the Tag Division, treat Smackdown like it matters.
Ideally, since the WWE has sweet fuck all for talent right now. Merge the brands and all the titles. They merged the Tag and Diva/Womens titles. Just merge the World Titles and have Smackdown be a real B/rookie show where the newer folk go to get over and where we can tune in to see actual wrestling. Have King of the Ring be a Smackdown tournament where the best rookie on Smackdown gets a shot at the title. Keep a mid card title on Smackdown to give it something to do at PPV's. Keep the World champion on RAW with occasional appearances on Smackdown.
Ratings are so pointless. People DVR it or watch it over youtube, honestly people should calm down on why ratings are so down.
Good point. Streams, DVRs, YouTube and many other things come into effect. Nielsen doesn't do every single TV in the US do they? Ratings only matter to keep sponsors happy or whatever as people like CM Punk have said.
I think PPV buys are pretty important though. I know streams are getting big but you want to make the PPV so good that you don't want fans relying on a stream. I could be wrong but PPV buys is what should truly matter for the most part.
Exactly
It is a terrible rating and even though people can DVR and stream it now it is down a lot, only a small fraction will watch it through some other format.
Here are previous go home RAW ratings;
3.8 last year to 3.0 this year is a massive drop. Maybe fans really don't want to see the old veterans in the top spots, Rock, HHH, Taker, HBK and Jericho have all had plenty of tv time yet fans are tuning it. Probably not the answer but it is a possibility.
In my opinion it is because WWE haven't built any stars, other than the old guys the only draws are Cena, Punk and Orton. Three guys does not make a successful company. They need to push new stars and actually keep them at the top, giving them the yo-yo push has killed many guys runs in recent years. Miz, Swagger, Del Rio, Sheamus, Riley, Kofi, McIntyre, Barrett etc have all suffered from yo-yo booking and it is no wonder that they struggle to draw. If WWE are going to push someone they need to commit to them. WWE also need to take more care of their titles especially the midcard and tag team titles, all titles should be important and burying your champions hurts the prestige of the titles.
Here are previous go home RAW ratings;
3.8 last year to 3.0 this year is a massive drop. Maybe fans really don't want to see the old veterans in the top spots, Rock, HHH, Taker, HBK and Jericho have all had plenty of tv time yet fans are tuning it. Probably not the answer but it is a possibility.
In my opinion it is because WWE haven't built any stars, other than the old guys the only draws are Cena, Punk and Orton. Three guys does not make a successful company. They need to push new stars and actually keep them at the top, giving them the yo-yo push has killed many guys runs in recent years. Miz, Swagger, Del Rio, Sheamus, Riley, Kofi, McIntyre, Barrett etc have all suffered from yo-yo booking and it is no wonder that they struggle to draw. If WWE are going to push someone they need to commit to them. WWE also need to take more care of their titles especially the midcard and tag team titles, all titles should be important and burying your champions hurts the prestige of the titles.
10% of the audience watched on tape delay via DVR, so that is a good bit of ratings which weren't accounted for. What is hurting wwe is turner now has the rights to march madness unlike in years past, as TNT has always been the only channel that can impact USA and vice versa as they are the two channels in the most markets on all Cale and satellite systems in the US.
Yes they are more exposed than ESPN
Yes they are more exposed than ESPN
But without a TV deal they are dead as a dodo, and that's the way things are headed, no hyperbole.
Not to say WWE wouldn't get a new carrier because they almost certainly would, but losing money takes its toll. Plus, now this Rock experiment has failed, it makes it less likely we'll see any shock apps from any big stars. Knock on effect, and all.
Meh, the rating is nothing to worry about it since it wasn't an actual SD really.
