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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.
 
#4,962 ·
WWE and Vince need to keep fresh and exciting story lines an ongoing thing right now. Now I know it was a special episode of RAW, but if you want to keep some of these viewers come back, they don't want to see brodus clay, and other nonsense and recaps. Even if you want to keep a small portion of this audience that was apart of the 1000th RAW, show needs to start off with a bang, fuck the recaps. Have some interesting Feuds going on, keep this Punk situation interesting. Please don't resort to just throwing the usual on, make some of these extra viewers continue to watch, even a small improvement is better than nothing.
 
#4,963 ·
Nearly 7 million people witnessed the Punk turn. I guarantee there'll be people who aren't regular viewers tuning in next week to watch and see the explanation. Nice hook by WWE.

The breakdown is crazy. Random gains in the middle of the hour. To my count from what I read, EVERY segment in the 10-11 PM hour gained from the Lesnar/HHH/Heyman/McMahon angle, to the Slater/Legends pay-off to The Undertaker's return. Fucking crazy. This has to be a definite success in the eyes of WWE with these numbers.
 
#4,964 ·
Nothing really surprising from the breakdwon show was destined to do big viewer #s. Like Starbuck said next week is the real test.

IT did surprise me that both segments with The Rock were "surprises" and scheduled at the top of one of the hours
 
#4,969 ·
Also I'm guessing but the first hour of next week's raw may take a slight hit because probably many viewers are forgetting or dont know it's permanent 3 hours from here on out.
 
#4,970 ·
Obis has covered the numbers below, but just for consistency purposes, my post is below. I am assuming the breakdown has ignored Q12 because there is no way hour 2 averaged 6.3m with the breakdown as it is. Hence, Q12 in the below has a low number:

Quarter Hours - July 23rd, 2012
Q1 - 3.55 rating / 5.55 million
Q2 - 3.57 rating / 5.57 million
Q3 - 3.31 rating / 5.18 million
Q4 - 3.52 rating / 5.50 million
Q5 - 3.91 rating / 6.12 million
Q6 - 4.28 rating / 6.69 million
Q7 - 3.63 rating / 5.80 million
Q8 - 3.83 rating / 6.13 million
Q9 - 3.89 rating / 6.22 million
Q10 - 3.99 rating / 6.25 million
Q11 - 4.25 rating / 6.54 million
Q12 - 3.65 rating / 5.62 million
Overrun - 4.43 rating / 6.93 million

Obviously a brilliant breakdown, which does not need to be said, really. Onto the next bit:

Q1 - 5.55 million (0.00 gain) <-- no commercials
Q2 - 5.71 million (0.14 gain) <-- 3 minutes stripped out; end of DX segment, Raw previews, JR; Six-Man Tag Team match entrances
Q3 - 5.52 million (0.35 gain) <-- 6 minutes stripped out; Six-Man Tag Team match, Touts, Charlie Sheen live
Q4 - 5.87 million (0.37 gain) <-- 6 minutes stripped out; AJ and Layla backstage, Swagger vs Clay, DX and Trish backstage
Q5 - 6.27 million (0.15 gain) <-- 3 minutes stripped out; The Wedding of AJ and Daniel Bryan
Q6 - 6.74 million (0.05 gain) <-- 1 minutes stripped out; Bryan, Punk and Rock segment
Q7 - 6.31 million (0.51 gain) <-- 7 minutes stripped out; Christian vs The Miz
Q8 - 6.29 million (0.15 gain) <-- 3 minutes stripped out; Charlie Sheen live, Raw moment, start of HHH/Lesnar segment
Q9 - 6.64 million (0.41 gain) <-- 6 minutes stripped out; end of Lesnar/HHH segment, Touts, WWE '13 preview, Raw moment
Q10 - 6.40 million (0.16 gain) <-- 3 minutes stripped out; Slater vs Lita, Bryan recap and interview, WWE's 100,000,000 social media follower
Q11 - 6.70 million (0.16 gain) <-- 3 minutes stripped out; Raw 1000's famous catchphrases, Ryder, Mene Gene, Cena and Rock backstage, Kane and Undertaker reunion
Q12 - 6.11 million (0.49 gain) <-- 7 minutes stripped out; Be a Star promo, Charlie Sheen live, Cena and Punk entrances
Q13 - 6.93 million (0.00 gain) <-- no commercials

In order therefore:

6.93 million - WWE Championship match
6.73 million - Punk, Bryan and Rock segment
6.70 million - Kane and Undertaker reunion
6.64 million - Lesnar and HHH segment
6.40 million - Slater vs Lita
6.27 million - The Wedding

I'm going to do something more detailed later, which I will probably put into spoiler tags.
 
#4,975 ·
Henry would've managed 10 million+ viewers if he was in that segment.
 
#4,982 ·
Yep. And that's why Punk will be dropping the title to Cena REAL SOON.
 
#4,981 ·
the last two times they had specials like this ie trump raw and 15th anniversary show about 1 million viewers dropped off the next week, if that happens again ratings won't be too bad next week especially with more people watching tv next week with the olympics

football season for the first month usually sees viewership drop by 10-15%, its going to be interesting this year because raw starts before MNF not 30mins after it
 
#4,989 ·
have Bryan or AJ gotten good ratings without an incredibly pathetic and desperate segment that is almost always good for viewers no matter who it is? no? okay, cya.
 
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