WWE Television Ratings

[Big Red Jericho Punk]

Well you can't say Raw didn't deserve it. It was a bad show and when Monday Night Football comes around, people like me will be flipping in the channel to watch something likely better all across the country.

 

[Chris]

Raw didn't deserve a rating that high.

 

[TheLordPerucho]

Not a Punk hater, but this gif...i find it funny, got it from dat other forum.

Once NFL begins, the ratings will get worse...

 

[Heisenberg]

The August 13th WWE RAW did a 2.85 cable rating with 4.14 million viewers – not good numbers for the SummerSlam go-home RAW.

In the segment breakdown, CM Punk vs. Big Show opened with a 2.60 quarter rating – the lowest quarter for RAW in months. JTG vs. Ryback gained 63,000 viewers while Heath Slater vs. R-Truth gained 186,000 more. Tensai vs. Sin Cara lost 105,000 viewers.

Piper’s Pit with Dolph Ziggler, Chris Jericho, The Miz and Roddy Piper at 9pm gained 516,000 viewers. Jericho vs. Ziggler vs. Miz lost 96,000 viewers. Backstage segments with Shawn Michaels, John Cena and CM Punk lost 374,000 viewers while the Divas match with Eve Torres and Beth Phoenix vs. Layla and Kaitlyn gained 45,000 viewers.

John Cena and CM Punk vs. Big Show and Daniel Bryan gained 247,000 viewers for a 2.94 quarter rating at 10pm – not a good increase for that timeslot, even with Cena featured. Christian vs. Damien Sandow lost 121,000 viewers. The contract signing angle with Brock Lesnar, Triple H, Paul Heyman and Shawn Michaels gained 431,000 viewers. The angle in the parking lot where the camera went out lost 394,000 viewers and the in-ring angle where Lesnar broke Shawn’s arm gained 817,000 viewers for a 3.44 overrun.

(Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

People got pissed off with how they booked the Lesnar angle thing it seems.

 

[Chris]

Pretty sure people were pissed off by how the whole show was booked.

 

[Troy]

So odd that WWE can't see what is so obvious to everyone else. People don't want to tune in to watch recaps and replays and that want to see good matches and feuds from the top of the card to the bottom. It still hasn't clicked that they need every division to be strong and that they need to create more stars and giving them yo-yo pushes won't help at all.

 

[Nevermore Arcanum]

So odd that WWE can't see what is so obvious to everyone else. People don't want to tune in to watch recaps and replays and that want to see good matches and feuds from the top of the card to the bottom. It still hasn't clicked that they need every division to be strong and that they need to create more stars and giving them yo-yo pushes won't help at all.

It's not that they don't see it as much as they don't care. They know how to make money, and that's it. It's a business more than it is a spectacle to them, and they will kill off as many great and interesting characters as it takes to keep their top earners at the top, and they'll pass up as many great storyline opportunities as it takes to stay safe for their new top earners...the kids.

 

[TheLordPerucho]

As noted before, the August 20th WWE RAW did a 3.14 rating with 4.47 million viewers, up from the previous week.

The show opened with Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman at a 2.97 rating, significantly higher than usual. In the segment breakdown, the six-man match with R-Truth, Kofi Kingston and Sin Cara vs. Darren Young, Titus O'Neil and Cody Rhodes gained 9,000 viewers. The Ryback squash and backstage segment with Dolph Ziggler and Chris Jericho gained 198,000 viewers. The Alberto Del Rio segment gained 33,000 viewers while Del Rio vs. Randy Orton gained 280,000 viewers in the 9pm timeslot.

Brodus Clay vs. Damien Sandow lost 112,000 viewers and the satellite interview with Shawn Michaels lost 198,000 viewers. David Otunga vs. Big Show gained 86,000 viewers. Kane and Zack Ryder vs. Daniel Bryan and The Miz plus backstage stuff with John Cena and CM Punk gained 199,000 viewers for a 3.32 quarter rating at the 10pm timeslot.

The Divas Battle Royal to name a new #1 contender was the biggest loss of the show with 369,000 viewers. Dolph Ziggler vs. Chris Jericho in Jericho's exit lost 30,000 viewers. The main event segment with Punk, Cena and Jerry Lawler gained 466,000 viewers for a 3.36 overrun rating.

8/20 RAW Breakdown: Heyman and Lesnar's Opener, Chris Jericho's Final Match, More

Not surprised at the divas battle royal losing that chunk of viewers, the match was such a trainwreck...

 

[The Cork]

"Randy Orton doesn't draw"

'k

 

[Chris]

"Daniel Bryan & CM Punk don't draw"

'k

 

[The Cork]

The overrun always draws viewers and the other segment was down to Cena.

 

[Chris]

If you're going to say that, then you should also point out that Orton's gain was in the 9 p.m. slot where a lot of people tune into Raw. You could also credit the tag match increase to it being in the 10 p.m. slot, which is way more likely than a Cena backstage segment.

 

[Troy]

It's not that they don't see it as much as they don't care. They know how to make money, and that's it. It's a business more than it is a spectacle to them, and they will kill off as many great and interesting characters as it takes to keep their top earners at the top, and they'll pass up as many great storyline opportunities as it takes to stay safe for their new top earners...the kids.

Soon enough they will realise that they won't be able to make money if they don't continue to create new stars. They can't rely on the small handful of big names forever.

With the RAW rating I was surprised that the HBK interview suffered one of the largest drops of the show, no real surprise that the divas lost the largest number of viewers.

 

[Troy]

The 8/24 edition of Smackdown did 2,587,000 viewers. That is down a bit from last week.

The rating should end up around 1.9 with that viewership. That is a steady rating and the ratings have remained reasonably high with Sheamus as champion.

 

[Troy]

Monday's WWE RAW scored a 3.1 cable rating. Hour one did 4.2 million viewers, hour two did 4.8 million viewers and the third hour dropped to 4.5 million viewers for an average viewership of 4.5 million.

I am amazed that the rating stayed steady this week because I thought that it was a poor show. It actually had the third highest average audience (out of seven episodes) since RAW went to three hours.