WWE Television Ratings

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Expect next week to be high as well with the Lesnar fallout.

 

[Troy]

Yeah they should be able to keep it pretty high with Lesnar back again next week plus presumably Triple H returning on RAW as well to confront him.

 

[EffectsofRaven]

More proof that CM Punk was useless as Champion xD!

Nice to see Raw's ratings going back up, I wonder if it'll stay like this though.

 

[Troy]

I don't think it shows that Punk was useless as champion. To me it simply shows why WWE were always going to put the title on The Rock, he brings in huge business and huge numbers for them.

 

[Troy]

This week's show also drew high viewership with a 3.56 cable rating and 4.81 million viewers.

Slightly down from the 3.68 they got the week before but still much higher than they were getting last year. Even without The Rock on the show they drew well, Lesnar appearing again would have helped prevent a drop. Next week should be good with presumably both guys on the show.

 

[Troy]

Friday's WWE Smackdown television show drew a 2.16 rating, up from the 2.03 rating drawn the previous week. Smackdown averaged 3.191 million viewers, as noted earlier.

Very good rating for Smackdown considering that The Rock wasn't there. They have been able to maintain that big audience ever since The Rock showed up a couple of weeks back.

 

[Troy]

The three hour show did a 3.16 rating with an average of 4.26 million viewers. That's compared to 4.81 million last week. Here's the hourly breakdown:
Hour one: 4.35 million viewers
Hour two: 4.24 million viewers
Hour three: 4.17 million viewers

USA Network aren't the brightest. This was the night that they chose to change WWE RAW as listed as one three hour show to being listed as three one hour shows. It meant that people who had set their DVR for the first part and not the others were screwed as it wouldn't have recorded it and that is why there was that drop as the show went on. Why make that change during the busiest period of the year? Why not do it at the end of last year when things weren't as important.

 

[Troy]

Last night's (March 11, 2013) show garnered a 3.36 rating and an average of 4.81 million viewers for all three hours. Here's how the three hours break down, and yes, the same pattern that has held true for a long while now rears its ugly head once again.
Hour one: 4.98 million
Hour two: 4.89 million
Hour three: 4.57 million

Only a slight drop from last week which is impressive since they didn't have Rock or Cena on the show this week. So odd that the trend of dimishing viewers each hour continues, I get that three hours is a long time for wrestling but I expected a few more people to just tune in for the final hour and skipping the stuff at the start.

 

[Troy]

This week's episode of Monday Night Raw drew a 3.09 cable television rating, with a viewership average of 4.26 million viewers across all three hours.

Not a strong rating three weeks out from WM. The Rock is back for the next two weeks so WWE will want the viewership to jump back to the 5 million mark. The show was a bit of a nothing show so no real surprise that it didn't rate that well.

 

[Heisenberg]

This week's edition of WWE Monday Night Raw got a 3.13 in the ratings with about 4.40 million viewers. Raw was the #1 show on Monday night.

The Triple H/Paul Heyman segment started out the show with a good 3.04 quarter rating.

Antonio Cesaro vs. R-Truth lost 163,000 viewers.

Brodus Clay vs. Damien Sandow, followed by the Ziggler/AJ/Vickie/Maddox segment, gained 153,000 viewers.

Chris Jericho vs. World Heavyweight Champion Dolph Ziggler gained a good 439,000 viewers for a 3.35 quarter rating.

Cody Rhodes vs. Tensai lost 224,000 viewers.

Zack Ryder vs. Big E Langston lost 139,000.

Undertaker, Kane and Daniel Bryan vs. The Shield gained a massive 581,000 for a 3.50 quarter rating.

Fandango vs. William Regal lost an astonishing 949,000 viewers for a 2.83 rating, which is one of the biggest drops they've seen in years.

The Divas Battle Royal gained 302,000 viewers.

The closing segment with John Cena, Ryback, Mick Foley, and The Shield gained a good 548,000 viewers for a 3.43 rating to end the show.

Wow. Fandango losing close to 1 million viewers. Could it be the people that don't usually watch RAW tuned in to see The Undertaker wrestle on RAW for the first time in a while as well as Foley being advertised? So they tuned out then they tuned back in at the end? Other than that, most of the show drew pretty well.

 

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RAW did a 3.0 rating for an average of 4.23 million viewers for all three hours.

Hour one: 4.07 million
Hour two: 4.29 million
Hour three: 4.30 million

For the first time in a very long time they actually managed to increase the audience as the show went on. Noteworthy that John Cena wasn't actually on the show last week either.

 

[Troy]

This week’s episode of RAW scored a 2.89 cable TV rating, which is down from last week’s 2.90. The episode averaged 3.96 million viewers, in comparison to last weeks 3.89 million viewers.
Raw averaged 3.72 million viewers the first hour, 4.135 million in the second, and 4.012 million for the final third hour.

RAW's rating continues to be pretty consistent, around the 3.0 rating and 4 million viewer mark. They just can't find that spark to get more casuals tuning back in during this time of the year. Wonder if they will be able to get a boost in the lead up to SummerSlam.

 

[Troy]

As noted earlier, last night's episode of WWE RAW averaged 4.1 million viewers according to TVByTheNumbers.com. PWTorch reports that the final rating for the show was a 3.08.

There numbers were down slightly from last week's episode, which scored a 3.04 rating and averaged 4.167 million viewers.
The show drew 3.926 million viewers in the first hour and rose to 4.108 million viewers in the second. Viewers climbed again to 4.268 million viewers in the third and final hour. We hope to have the final rating shortly.

Staying above the 3.0 rating for now but WWE would want to push closer to 5 million viewers for the week leading into Summerslam and the night after.

 

[Chris]

Man that Cena guy as champion just can't draw the ratings : Because it's only the champion to blame for that right guys?

 

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Man that Cena guy as champion just can't draw the ratings : Because it's only the champion to blame for that right guys?

No, in this case it would be that vanilla midget Daniel Bryan. Everyone in the crowd doing the "YES" chants are doing it because they have to, not because they want to.