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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.
 
#5,589 ·
Oh but it has, and with Punk if I'm not mistaken. Of course I'm pretty sure when Punk did the match wasn't anywhere near as hyped as this one.

But that's my point. It has no reason to lose viewers and if it does, then it's confirmed Punk isn't a draw.

However, it should also be at least the number 2 segment of the night. Number 3 at worst if the Cena/Miz match (somehow) does well since it did go into the 9:00 hour if I'm not mistaken. But I don't know.
 
#5,598 ·
Actually, besides last week with Lesnar and Raw 1000, it's the highest first hour number.
 
#5,596 ·
Lawler/Punk is going to do well, Jerry Lawler is a big respected legend and always drew when they gave him a main event match, last year his Rumble win and celebration on RAW before EC drew a 4.0 and 1,100,000+ gain. And that's before Rock's return. + Almost all the Lawler/Cole segments drew big and was the biggest feud on TV after Rock/Cena/Miz. IIRC his TLC with Miz also did big. So you can count on a Cage match with Jerry Lawler to do at least decent.
 
#5,603 ·
WWE Raw on Monday, August 27 averaged 4.481 million viewers, which was nearly identical to an average of 4.478 million viewers last week for the post-Summerslam episode.

We will not have official Raw TV ratings until later this week. The following is a viewership break down for all three hours reported by TVBytheNumbers.com .

- First Hour: 4.16 million viewers, which was down 200,000 viewers from last week's new first hour.

- Second Hour: 4.79 million viewers, which was the most viewers for any hour of Raw since the Raw 1,000 episode. This was up 130,000 viewers compared to last week's second hour/previous first hour.

- Third Hour: 4.49 million viewers for the C.M. Punk vs. Jerry Lawler main event, the second-half of Triple H's retirement tease, and filler in-between the Hunter promo and main event. This was down 70,000 viewers compared to last week's third hour.

The net result is a wash compared to last week with -200,000 viewers in Hour One, +130,000 viewers in Hour Two, and -70,000 in Hour Three.

- Check back later this week for detailed Raw ratings.
pwtorch
 
#5,605 ·
Well, here's my question. Punk is a bad draw. Hence, if he's in the first hour, it would be a low rating. That means that naturally, whomever was in the second hour, it would experience a draw. Does this mean the second hour experienced an increase in viewers because Cena was in it or because Punk WASN'T?

I wouldn't attribute that increase to Cena since it could have been anybody in the second hour and it would have drawn, except Punk. We need to see a ratings breakdown first.
 
#5,610 ·
Should be an interesting breakdown to say the least lol. Punk got his shot with Lawler at the end. He opened and he closed which is what everybody has been clamoring for. Let's see if he can deliver. I think he will. As Rock316AE already pointed out, when placed in a hyped situation, King brings the goods so that should help. It was also a stip match and promoted throughout the show so it has absolutely no reason not to do well.

Trips should do well in his bit too. How well? I don't know. The 10pm slot hasn't been doing so well lately. Maybe he'll turn that around.

We'll just have to wait for the breakdown as always lol. Then the real bitching can begin.
 
#5,619 · (Edited)
I always loved Bob and Crash Holly as The Super Heavyweights, Crash's most memorable period was his classic 24/7 Hardcore title run but this is up there with it. Comedy gold. I will never forget that in one of Crash's first appearances, Hardcore brought him to the WWF as a back up for him and all that, and on their first segment they had a disagreement and started a crazy brawl, in the ring to the backstage area to the parking lot, even on a roof of a Truck lol. Classic AE/Russo skits and awesome chemistry. Bob Holly was never in a position to draw big(For the fact that the roster was too good back then, even to be in his position)but if you want a date or something, I can find it.
 
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#5,627 ·
In the quarters, Ryback vs. Jack Swagger and Natalya vs. Layla lost 160,000 viewers. The Vickie Guerrero/A.J. interview and brawl gained 439,000 viewers. So all that crowd reaction for the segment equated to more viewers watching as well. John Cena vs. The Miz gained 525,000 viewers but that also went through 9 p.m. when a ton of people are going to naturally tune in. Heath Slater vs. Santino Marella lost 124,000 viewers. Brodus Clay & Sin Cara vs. Cody Rhodes & Damien Sandow and the final Anger Management segment lost 214,000 viewers. R-Truth vs. Daniel Bryan gained 232,000 viewers. The HHH retirement segment was the big segment of the show gaining 257,000 viewers and doing a 3.51 quarter. Since I would expected that segment to do huge, and it was the highest point of the show, the long shows starting at 8 may have hurt the 10 p.m. segment’s ability to pull the big gains as you’d have expected this segment to add 700,000 viewers. Sheamus & Randy Orton vs. Dolph Ziggler & Alberto Del Rio lost 576,000 viewers. That’s with two of the top three babyfaces in the company and two of the more pushed heels. That’s losing due to the length of the show. David Otunga vs. Zack Ryder lost 131,000 viewers. And C.M. Punk vs. Jerry Lawler gained 479,000 viewers and did a 3.35 overrun. Lawler vs. Punk saw Boys 12-17 go from 1.9 to 2.3, Males 18-49 go from 2.7 to 3.2, Women 12-17 stay at 0.9 and Women 18-49 to stay at 1.1.
Two of the top four superstars losing half a million stars is pretty bad.

Lawler V Punk drew decent.

HHH retirement getting the highest numbers isn't surprising

Ryback's streak is dead,.
 
#5,628 ·
So Triple H gaining 200k to a 3.5 is a huge success. But when Punk/Jericho gained 200k to a 3.6, it was a below average gain that meant nothing. Oh well, I'm done trying to understand whoever comes up with these breakdown details and take them as I please.

Punk/Lawler did good for what it was. I expected it to bomb since, well, it really speaks for itself. But the opening promo from Punk built it up really well so I'm not too surprised. Sheamus and Orton in a tag team match losing 500k is ouch. Other than that not too much to discuss.
 
#5,630 · (Edited)
So let's see here...

Punk/Lawler's opening segment seemed to do okay. Their match did well as that had 700,000+ viewers from their opening segment from what I can tell. It had the third largest number of viewers of the night, which I semi-expected as the 9PM segment has usually been in the top 2 segments since the move to 3 hours. I thought maybe Punk/Lawler would've still beaten it, but there was only a 70,000 viewer difference. HHH's segment as expected had the biggest number of the night, and while Wrestlingfan is right in his assessment that the fact Punk/Jericho wasn't considered a success but this will be by some is pretty BS. But yeah, HHH doing that well though is no surprise. It was an average gain, but still top number of the night.

Sheamus/Orton vs. Del Rio/Ziggler losing 500k+ is lol. That's the number 3 and 4 on the biggest current stars ladder losing 500,000 viewers. Now in all fairness though, it was after the show had peaked with HHH's segment, but if they were as big stars/draws as some claim them to be (Rock316AE ;) ), they would've been able to minimize the loss to something like 200,000. However taking what I think of Orton/Sheamus' drawing ability, they did well considering the circumstance.

Sandow losing viewers again makes me :(
 
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