WWE Television Ratings

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According to Zap2It.com, this week's edition of "Total Divas" took in 1.460 million viewers in its initial airing. This number is up from the 1.349 million viewers the show took in the previous week.


"Total Divas" was up against stiff competition this week as it went head-to-head with MTV's Video Music Awards show, which took in 10.066 million viewers.

 

[Troy]

I would have thought that the VMAs would have taken away more viewers than SummerSlam, more crossover viewers but apparently not.

Good rating for Smackdown again, still haven't read any news about Smackdown's contract going forward. 2.0 is still the figure that they should be able to get if they put some more effort into the show.

Decent for RAW, with three hours I doubt that they will be able to get mid 3.0's anymore unless something crazy happens. Still good that they manage to average over 4 million for each hour.

 

[SAIYANS]

For what is worth E is advertising a full Labor Day morning marathon of Total Divas

 

[SAIYANS]

Another week, another increase for Total Divas. Makes me wonder how the Labor Day marathon went

pwpix.net - - Sunday's episode of WWE Total Divas did 1,527,000 viewers, up from the previous week's 1,460,000 number

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[Chris]

What are the numbers for some of E!'s other shows for comparison? I'm entirely too lazy to look that up so I'm sure SAIYANS will have my back.

 

[SAIYANS]

Can't really help you there. I see it was the 5th highest rated cable show on TV Sunday night. . Second highest rated the network has outside the Kardashians in its run, surpassing the Soup. Zap2it says that Total Divas is the highest rated new series E has had since 2011, surpassing numbers Jonas did.

E! Delivers Year-Over-Year Growth in All Key Demos for August 2013 - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers and Sunday Cable Ratings: ‘Breaking Bad’ Wins Night, NASCAR, ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’, ‘Total Divas’, ‘Sister Wives’ & More - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers

 

[Troy]

When is the wedding episode for Total Divas? Will be interesting to see the numbers as weddings normally draw.

The August 30 episode of WWE Smackdown scored a 1.93 rating, up from last week's 1.90 rating. The show averaged 2.794 million viewers, up from last week's 2.572 million viewers.

Staying steady just under the 2.0 rating and getting ever so closer to the 3 million viewers. If they actually promoted Lesnar appearing on Smackdown I wonder if that would help bump them over the 3 million mark?

The August 28th edition of WWE Main Event scored a final cable rating of 0.8, with 1.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Haven't seen this rating for quite some time. Pretty decent number considering the channel it is on and since it just has two matches a show and not much else.

 

[Troy]

The 9/13 edition of Smackdown did 2,827,000 viewers, up significantly from last week.

Can't find the actual rating but the viewership would have to be one of the highest in months. Surely that would get them over the 2.0 rating.

 

[Troy]

It ended up being a 1.96 so still not quite that 2.0 rating

Friday's episode of WWE SmackDown scored a 1.93 cable rating, down just a bit from last week's 1.96 rating. The show averaged 2.602 million viewers, down from the previous week.

Staying consistent. Still struggling to find any new information on the Smackdown tv contract that was supposedly up soon. Haven't read any news about whether they will remain on SyFy or head to another channel.

 

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Raw's overall rating this week is 3.7, down from last weeks 4.0.

Going hr by hr compared to last week's rating, hr 1 lost over 250,000 viewers. Hour 2 was down around 367,000 viewers compared to last week. And the last hr, was down 192,000 compared to last week.

(Info's from PWInsider)

 

[Troy]

Rating doesn't seem to be going anywhere, going to need a big change in wrestling for it to start to spike up or down by a substantial amount. I also believe that this week is the big ratings week in the US where all the big name shows return and new shows make their debut. Probably would have been up against strong competition.

 

[AZUCAR!]

quarter by quarter Raw rating:

Quarter-hour TV ratings for Monday's Raw capture a general lack of interest in the Daniel Bryan vs. Randy Orton feud heading into Battleground on Sunday.

The face-off between Bryan and Orton at the end of Monday's Raw scored the lowest over-run rating in the males 18-49 demographic of the past three months.

The segment scored a 2.05 m18-49 rating, compared to a 2.21 over-run last week, a 2.65 over-run the Monday after Night of Champions, and a 2.46 over-run rating leading into NOC.

- The highest-rated segment of Monday's Raw was a 2.29 rating for Paul Heyman's "proposal" to Ryback at the top of the third hour. This was down from a 2.47 rating for C.M. Punk's return segment at the top of the third hour last week.

The only other segment above a 2.0 on the night was a 2.05 rating for the Rhodes Family returning to hear a business proposal from Triple H & Stephanie McMahon at the top of the second hour.

Raw M18-49 Demo Break Down

- OVERALL SHOW: 1.87 rating / 1.178 million viewers

The entire first hour was below the show-average:

- Q1: Raw opened with a below-average 1.77 rating for C.M. Punk's show-opening promo exchange with Brad Maddox, plus one commercial. By comparison, the previous two weeks opened with 2.0+ ratings.

- Q2: Raw was about the same with a 1.75 rating for Punk vs. Big E. Langston, one commercial, and ring introductions for Fandango vs. Kofi Kingston.

- Q3: Raw inched up to a 1.79 rating for Kofi vs. Fandango, backstage segments and interviews, and two full commercial breaks.

- Q4: Raw increased to a first-hour-high 1.86 rating for Los Matadores's debut, plus one commercial.

The peak audience of the first hour was contained in Q4 - 1.467 million viewers at 8:53 p.m. for the end of Los Matadores's debut.

- Q5: Raw got its top-of-the-hour bump to a 2.05 rating for the Rhodes-McMahon Summit and one commercial.

Peak viewership was 1.610 million viewers at 9:06 p.m., which was one of the few times during the show that Raw touched 1.6 million.

- Q6: Raw fell 14 percent to a second-hour-low 1.76 rating for Curtis Axel vs. R-Truth, plus one commercial.

- Q7: Raw rebounded to a 1.92 rating for Brie Bella vs. Alicia Fox, one commercial, and Big Show flipping out backstage.

- Q8: Raw fell to a 1.80 rating for World champion Alberto Del Rio vs. Zack Ryder and two full commercial breaks.

- Q9: Raw jumped to a show-high 2.29 rating for Paul Heyman's "proposal" to Ryback and C.M. Punk's run-in. There was no commercial interruption, boosting the rating.

The segment included the show's peak audience of 1.663 million viewers twice at the end of the segment. Overall, the final five minutes of the segment averaged 1.6 million viewers.

- Q10: After the "proposal" segment, Raw fell 24 percent for the next segment, which featured two full commercial breaks and the first few minutes of The Shield vs. Dolph Ziggler & The Usos.

- Q11: Raw rebounded to a 1.87 rating for the end of Shield vs. Ziggler & Usos, Stephanie brow-beating Big Show backstage, and one commercial.

The peak audience was 1.380 million viewers for Stephanie-Show at 10:40 p.m.

- Q12: Raw fell to a show-low 1.69 rating for Santino vs. Antonio Cesaro and two full commercial breaks.

- Over-Run: Raw scored a 2.05 rating for the Bryan-Orton face-off to close Raw. The peak audience was 1.367 million viewers at 11:09 p.m. when Raw signed off.

 

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WWE's Smackdown show was not immune to the post-Night of Champions ratings downturn that affected the last few weeks of Raw.

Smackdown on Friday, October 4 leading into Battleground scored a 1.83 rating, down three percent from a 1.89 rating last week and down one-tenth of a rating from a 1.93 rating two weeks ago.

Smackdown tied with the August 16 episode for lowest rating of the past two months.

- Smackdown averaged 2.513 million viewers, down four percent from last week's average. It was the fewest viewers in one month.

On cable TV Friday night, Smackdown ranked #9 in overall viewers, #5 in males 18-34, and #2 in males 18-49. Smackdown's chief competition was the MLB Playoffs, which averaged 3.560 million viewers on TBS.

- In the demographic ratings, Smackdown was down two-tenths to three-tenths of a rating in the key demos compared to last week.

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[AZUCAR!]

Despite being the night after a PPV, WWE Raw on Monday, October 7 scored a 2.65 rating, down slightly from a 2.68 rating last week leading into Night of Champions.

This was the lowest-rated Raw of the year, falling below a 2.66 rating on June 3 against a Game 7 of the NBA Playoffs.

Raw was not only opposed by Monday Night Football, but the MLB Playoffs, which drew nearly four million viewers. Football drew an okay audience of 11 million viewers.

- Raw averaged 3.706 million viewers, up 3.4 percent from last week's year-low viewership of 3.583 million viewers.

Outside of last week's episode, it was the fewest viewers since June 3.

Hourly Break Down: 3.694 million first hour viewers, an increase to 3.739 million second hour viewers, and a decline to 3.685 million third hour viewers.

- In the key demographics, Raw fell to a three-month low in males 18-34, the males 18-49 demo tied for a one-month low, and the younger audience fled Raw.

Raw scored year-lows in the males 12-34 and males 12-34 demos, which is not the result WWE is looking for when Raw's older demo is likely to flip over to football and baseball.

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[AZUCAR!]

WWE Smackdown on Friday, October 11 scored a 1.82 rating, essentially flat with a 1.83 rating last week leading into the Battleground PPV.

The slight drop-off made Smackdown the lowest-rated episode in three months, dating back to a 1.71 rating on July 12.

- Smackdown averaged 2.453 million viewers, down two percent from last week's Battleground lead-in episode.

The episode drew the least number of viewers in two months dating back to August 16 for the Summerslam lead-in show before the Triple H Power Trip storyline began.

- On cable TV Friday night, Smackdown ranked #5 in overall viewers behind MLB Playoffs coverage. Smackdown ranked #4 in males 18-34 and #2 in males 18-49.

The M18-49 demo is the only audience that showed improvement from last week's show. Younger viewers dropped off to three-month-lows and the adults 18-34 demo dropped to a two-month low.

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