WWE Television Ratings

[Troy]

- As noted before, the November 12th WWE RAW did a 2.86 cable rating with 4.19 million viewers.

In the segment breakdown, Randy Orton and Kofi Kingston vs. Dolph Ziggler and Alberto Del Rio lost 74,000 from the opener. The angle with Vickie Guerrero, AJ Lee, John Cena and Dolph Ziggler as well as Big Show vs. William Regal gained 468,000 viewers, which is strong growth for that point in the show. Layla vs. Kaitlyn and clips to hype Jerry Lawler's return lost 234,000 viewers.

Lawler's return with the segment involving CM Punk, Paul Heyman and Mick Foley gained 745,000 viewers for a high 3.38 quarter hour rating. The end of the angle lost 876,000 viewers.

Sin Cara, Rey Mysterio, Tyson Kidd and Justin Gabriel vs. Titus O'Neil, Darren Young, Primo and Epico gained 233,000 viewers in the last few minutes. Tensai vs. R-Truth lost 253,000 viewers. Brad Maddox vs. Ryback gained 755,000 viewers for a 3.28 quarter rating in the 10pm timeslot. This is the best 10pm growth in a long time.

Sheamus vs. David Otunga lost 910,000 viewers, which would be among the most viewers lost in one segment all year. Kane and The Miz vs. Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow lost 40,000 viewers. The lowest point of the whole show came at the beginning of CM Punk vs. John Cena. The first half of that match lost 313,000 viewers and did a 2.42 quarter hour rating. It picked up at 11pm for the overrun, finishing with a 2.99 quarter rating after gaining 528,000 viewers.

Once again the number of viewers dropped from hour two to hour three, three hours of wrestling on one night is just too much. If they go back to two hours the viewership will probably increase because it is a lot easier to handle two hours. If they want another hour of programming put it on another night, Tuesday or Thursday.

Huge numbers tuning out after the Lawler angle and huge numbers tuned out for Sheamus/Otunga as well. I love that Ryback vs. Brad Maddox drew so well, such an odd thing to draw and surprised that the AJ/Vickie/Cena angle gained so much.

 

[Troy]

Last night's episode of WWE RAW garnered a 2.72 rating with 3.92 million viewers. The rating was even with last week's show, while viewers were up slightly from the 3.835 million viewers drawn last week.

The show drew 4.147 million viewers in the first hour and fell to 4.126 million in the second. Viewers dropped sharply from the second hour to the third, which garnered 3.488 million viewers. It was the fifteenth week in a row where viewership for the third hour was below viewership in the second hour.

PWTorch also noted that the 15% drop in viewers from hour two to hour three was the steepest since the show moved permanently to three hours this past summer

Yet again people are tuning out for the third hour, three hours in a row is too much week in week out. Pity for the viewers though because the last hour was much better than the first.

 

[Dale]

The 3 hour format is just utter garbage. I've started watching the first hour live, then watching another program or two while the 2nd an 3rd hours are recording that way I can fast forward that amount of shit there is in on the show.

 

[Troy]

So true. They just don't have the talent or talented enough writers to fill three solid entertaining hours each monday night. It is too much, maybe it could have worked during the Invasion era when they had a ton of top level talent and the potential for great storylines but not now. Hopefully the deal with USA Network doesn't last too much longer so they can switch back to the normal format.

 

[Heisenberg]

Can't seem to find an actual segment breakdown. Was there no ratings breakdown this week?

 

[Troy]

I haven't had any luck finding the ratings breakdown either. Maybe there was just a delay in getting them and they might appear in the next couple of days.

 

[Troy]

Last night's commercial free episode of WWE Super SmackDown on the USA Network scored a 2.29 cable rating.

The show averaged 3.331 million viewers. This is up from the 1.52 rating the last Tuesday SmackDown drew on November 6th, and is up from the usual Friday night rating.

Great result for Smackdown, the average viewers is almost up there with what the three hours RAWs have done lately. Commercial free definitely would have helped but it does show that if you give people enough incentive to tune in they will on whatever night.

 

[Dale]

Viewership data is in for Monday's live WWE RAW and despite stiff competition from the college football BCS National Championship game on ESPN, RAW rang in 2013 with a very strong showing.

Monday's WWE RAW featuring the return of The Rock and CM Punk vs. Ryback in a TLC match drew 4.42 million viewers. This is up a sharp 900,000 viewers from the previous week's (taped) New Year's Eve broadcast, making it the most-watched RAW since August 27th.

Hourly viewership was as follows:

Hour 1: 4,290,000
Hour 2: 4,320,000
Hour 3: 4,650,000

As you can see, RAW finally broke the streak of losing viewers in the third hour of the show. What's even more impressive is that the BCS National Championship game drew a staggering 26.38 million viewers.

Looks like The Rock definitely spiked peoples interests and even the TLC match to some extent.

 

[Troy]

Massive jump from last week and even more impressive given the competition. They did well to keep people interested the entire show and The Rock and the TLC match were great draws for that last hour which normally struggles. Lots of pressure to keep the rating steady, or to increase it, next week with the 20th Anniversary.

How college games get huge numbers like 26 million tuning in astounds me.

 

[Troy]

The 1/11 edition of Smackdown, featuring The Rock's return to HIS show, 3,130,000 viewers. That is up from last week's 2,721,000.

That works out to a rating of 2.2. Big bump for the Rock's appearance and finally it managed to break through that 3 million viewer mark.

 

[Troy]

Monday's WWE Raw 20th Anniversary television show delivered a 3.24 rating, up from the 3.14 rating the show drew last week. Raw averaged 4.55 million viewers compared to the 4.42 million average on January 7.

Another strong rating for The Rock's return. Just wonder what rating they could have done if WWE actually pushed the 20th Anniversary celebrations and made it a celebration show.

 

[Dale]

As noted before, last night's WWE RAW drew 5.02 million viewers on the USA Network. The final rating for the show is a 3.7 rating.

This is up 21% in viewers and 16% in the ratings from last week. This is the first time RAW has topped 5 million viewers since RAW 1,000.

Needless to say WWE officials were pleased with the post-Royal Rumble numbers as they have already issued a press release touting the success of last night's ratings

USA NETWORK’S “WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW” DELIVERS BEST NUMBERS IN ALL DEMOS SINCE JULY 2012

WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW – the most-watched, regularly scheduled program on cable, airing live every Monday night, 52 weeks a year – had a great night with the best rating in all demos since July 2012 when the show aired it’s 1000th episode and debuted a new third hour of the show.

This week’s 8pm-11:10pm episode of WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW delivered its biggest audience since converting to a 3-hour format on 7/23/12 with 2.4 million (2.395MM) P18-49, 2.4 million (2.37MM) P25-54,1.3 million (1.25MM) P18-34 and 5 million (5.01MM) total viewers.

RAW delivered more M18-34 than any other program on television, broadcast or cable, and was second only to “The Following” on FOX for M18-49.

RAW made USA the #1 network in cable with double-digit margins over #2 History and was the only network to average over 2 million P18-49 (2.28MM, +58% over #2 HIST), 2 million P25-54 (2.26MM, +25%) or 4 million total viewers (4.80MM, +21%).

3.7 is a pretty fucking incredible number especially over 3 hours. Would love to see a breakdown.

 

[Chris]

That's only .2 points lower than the 1000th episode right? Pretty damn good.

 

[The Cork]

Guys, I know it's been a rough ride these 400+ days, but FINALLY... THE RATINGS HAVE COME BACK....TO THE WWE.

 

[Troy]

That is a monster number for a three hour show. Just shows what happens when you put the title on The Rock, fans tune in to see what happens next.