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**The Official Raw Ratings Thread** (Discuss Ratings In Here)

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
For a list of the weekly rating dating back to January, please click here:

http://www.gerweck.net/tv-ratings/2012-tv-ratings/

RATINGS BREAKDOWN FOR THIS WEEKS RAW 4/9

Raw on 4/9 did a 3.10 rating and 4.29 million viewers. The show was third for the night on cable. The show did a 2.4 in Males 12-17, 2.7 in Males 18-49, 1.0 in Girls 12-17 and 1.1 in Women 18-49 with a 69.3% male skew. It was down 21% from the 5.46 million viewers of the week after Mania show last year, and last year there was no bombshell along the lines of the Brock Lesnar return on the night after Mania show.

In the segment-by-segment, Brodus Clay & Santino Marella vs. Dolph Ziggler & Jack Swagger lost 99,000 viewers.

Backstage with Laurinaitis with Miz an Cena, Marella looking for the Three Stooges and R-Truth vs. Cody Rhodes gained 255,000 viewers.

Lord Tensai vs. Yoshi Tatsu lost 415,000 viewers.

The mic work between C.M. Punk and Chris Jericho in the top of the hour segment gained 379,000 viewers to a 3.19.

Punk vs. Henry and the post-match with Jericho pouring beer all over Punk, as well as the quick Del Rio vs. Ryder match lost 169,000 viewers.

The Three Stooges in-ring segment lost 240,000 viewers and was the low point of the show at 2.90.

The Brock Lesnar interview gained 423,000 viewers.

And the Cena vs. Otunga match with Lesnar run-in gained 301,000 viewers, which is a very weak overrun number, finishing at 3.42.
 
#4,242 ·
Santino is DAT RATINGS KILLER, dawg.

Seriously, he's been in segments that have seen Alicia Fox-level devastation in viewership losses. Granted, he generally appears in segments that are thoroughly inundated with commercials and his match or segment is typically kept rather short, but on Raw this week they advertised him vs. Del Rio at roughly the top of that quarter hour, and that is just a terrible, terrible number, in any case.

Triple H-eyman segments doin' da big numbers.
 
#4,244 ·
:lol .Another week, another 100k viewer dropped from this part time electrician. Seriously, who was its idea that somebody that looks like a Pizza Hut delivery guy could pass as the main champion of any combat sport or any sports entertainment ever?
Just stop it fpalm. Can you not read? Meltzer said the show opened STRONG, and "only" lost 200k viewers for quarter 2. Have you not seen what second quarters usually loose?
 
#4,245 ·
:lol .Another week, another 100k viewer dropped from this part time electrician. Seriously, who was its idea that somebody that looks like a Pizza Hut delivery guy could pass as the main champion of any combat sport or any sports entertainment ever?
You don't know how to read ratings. Post above me sorts you out. + let's not forget multiple advertisements.
 
#4,248 ·
6/18 Santino Marella vs. Alberto Del Rio lost 711,000 viewers

5/28 Alberto Del Rio vs. Santino Marella lost 733,000 viewers, which is awful for that spot in the show, doing a 2.52 rating (second lowest quarter hour on a regular non-holiday Raw show of the last 14 years, ahead of only a 2.47 quarter on the 9/12 show for a Kofi Kingston vs. Miz match).

5/21 Santino Marella doing the angle with Ricardo Rodriguez lost 521,000 viewers. Randy Orton vs. Alberto Del Rio lost 252,000

Del Rio and Santino are death to viewership
 
#4,256 ·
DMN's breakdowns are in depth and a better way at looking at what gains and loses, love it. Tag match to open didn't really lose at all since it factored in with backstage segments.

Santino and/or ADR are losing viewers every single week...and these people are tuning out in BIG numbers.
 
#4,258 · (Edited)
Of course its "flawed" unless we get the minute by minute ratings like the WWE does anything we try to breakdown here will be "flawed". But, Its ALOT less flawed than just the normal breakdown saying this 15 minutes gained so many viewers and this 15 minutes lost so many viewers w/o any details.

But because the #s aren't showing what you want to post then of course shit on the report.
 
#4,259 ·
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ks-number-one-in-percentage-increases/137441/

Those are DVR ratings for tv shows. It really makes me wonder what the Raw ratings are if you include DVRs. A show like 30 Rock which gets about 3.4M viewers, increased by over 1.2M thanks to DVR ratings(meaning 4.6M viewers). Another show like Whitney which gets about 4.2M viewers, increased by about 1.2M viewers(meaning about 5.7M) thanks to DVR.

So Raw could be following a similar trend. Having over 1M DVR viewers(and who knows how many viewers that just watch online as well)
 
#4,261 ·
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ks-number-one-in-percentage-increases/137441/

Those are DVR ratings for tv shows. It really makes me wonder what the Raw ratings are if you include DVRs. A show like 30 Rock which gets about 3.4M viewers, increased by over 1.2M thanks to DVR ratings(meaning 4.6M viewers). Another show like Whitney which gets about 4.2M viewers, increased by about 1.2M viewers(meaning about 5.7M) thanks to DVR.
Nah, Raw usually average between 250,000-400,000 DVR viewers.

According to WWE, their quarterly reports, between the period January-March this year their ratings went up by 0.3 thanks to DVR.
WWE reports that the average rating was 3.5 ( included DVR ), when the normal rating ( not DVR ) showed it being 3.15.
 
#4,268 ·
^Same with NBA. They barely had anyone DVR those games.

I wasn't trying to argue that Raw is as popular as some top shows on CBS/NBC and stuff. I'm just saying that there are more people who watch Raw than people on here think(in USA at least). So don't freak out when you see 4.5M viewers, cause actual number who watched it will be up to 5M(though compared to most cable tv shows,5M is a good number)
 
#4,278 ·
Like how people try and come up with excuses for why Punk segments drop viewership. So the latest is the ads? By that logic when any segments drop in viewership it isn't any of the wrestlers faults then? Bit of a lame excuse isn't it? Punks segments have always lost viewers it isn't anything new. Some weeks they do alright.
But look at this weeks, his segment lost 275k viewers while Cenas gained 590k. That shows as much as we dislike Cena he is a huge draw. He is the number one guy by miles. People talk about Punk being the 2nd top guy but look at his numbers, they are pretty crap. To me that isn't a reflection on Punks abilities it is a reflection on how the show has been designed to make one guy look better then everyone else. If something ever happened to Cena the company would be fucked. It also shows as much as people on here make Punk out to be great and popular the people away from here couldn't give a shit about him. You could put the title on anyone other then Cena and it would be the same for them.
 
#4,279 ·
Like how people try and come up with excuses for why Punk segments drop viewership. So the latest is the ads? By that logic when any segments drop in viewership it isn't any of the wrestlers faults then? Bit of a lame excuse isn't it? Punks segments have always lost viewers it isn't anything new. Some weeks they do alright.
If a segment drops in viewership in a quarter that has a lot of commercial, then yes the wrestlers shouldnt be blamed.
Of course if it was no commercial then there is nobody to blame but the wrestlers.

Goes for everyone. Not just Punk. Ive said that for several weeks now when Meltzer is being retarded and says "That 2 minute match lost 300,000 viewers" while ignoring the fact that the rest of the quarter was commercial and backstage stuff.
 
#4,285 ·
Same thing goes to Sheamus, Kane, Bryan, Orton. So stop blaming Punk when others are just like him and what's the point of bashing him as if others can do better than Punk, Cena only draws because he always gets the best storylines and always booked to be in the mainevent. Punk still sells a lot of merchandise he's #2 in men category and #1 in women category and #2 in kids category, so he's successful whether you like it or not.
 
#4,286 ·
In the segment-by-segment, Sheamus & C.M. Punk vs. Daniel Bryan & Kane lost 241,000 viewers. Jack Swagger vs. Dolph Ziggler lost 22,000 viewers. The Paul Heyman/HHH in-ring gained 559,000 viewers and a show high 3.74 quarter. Alberto Del Rio vs. Santino Marella lost 711,000 viewers. The segment with Cyndi Lauper, Wendi Richter, Heath Slater and Roddy Piper lost 12,000 viewers. I expected that segment to do well, a little because of Piper (not because of Lauper because it’s been a long time since she’s been a big deal) and a little because of the train wreck philosophy of ratings. John Cena vs. David Otunga & John Laurinaitis in the overrun segment gained 573,000 viewers to a 3.74 quarter. As far as main event growth, for Teenage boys it was up from 3.3 to 3.5, Men 18-49 from 2.9 to 3.5, Teenage girls from 1.2 to 1.7 and 18-49 women from 1.3 to 1.5.
Regular breakdown, who did big quarters or the losses as expected. The Heyman/HHH segment deserved a bigger number for Heyman's awesome performance alone. They promoted Brock for this segment so probably a lot of the audience expected to see him there.

Vince was able to bring back part of the audience and the Show/Ace/Cena angle was able to keep them for at least a week to see the Ace firing payoff. If they continue with this run, the main event segment of the 1000th RAW with Austin/Taker/Vince/Cena/Lesnar/DX/Flair is going to do the biggest number of the year.
 
#4,287 ·
Outside of the AJ/Kane/Bryan/Punk angle, and Triple H barking in his Batman voice (stolen from Starbuck) at Paul Heyman's Batman villain The Penguin, Raw is so largely dull these days that this thread's topsy-turvy, ever-evolving narrative over the course of a week kind of trumps it in overall entertainment value at the moment. Which is humorous, because NXT, Smackdown and roughly half of TNA's program are drastically better than Raw at the moment. Oh well...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more?
 
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