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.
'Punk vs McMahon' is money it seems, they would be crazy to drop it. I think it makes sense for that to be a continuous 'background' feud now with Vince being able to bring in Rock to stop Punk or even better eventually Austin to branch these feuds together.
Stupid comment. Punk/Vince draws others couldnt, since when gaining viewers in the 9pm timeslot is a big success, Punk and Orton and half of the roster drew more than Shemaus in that timeslot, Sheamus cant show his muscles in other timeslots. Funny comments are just funny comments, I guess you will be the next guy to laugh at his comments. Sarcastic "Oh, I hate this guy I should not give him credit, boo" kids are funny. I guess you're one of the next Rock316ae wannabes. Hate is a strong word, and I can't believe some of you with comments like that, can enjoy it. If Sheamus can draw in other timeslots that's a good sigh but if not that's just whatever.
Vince is a huge draw. Why are people trying to imply punk made those numbers? punk had a segment with aj and lost nearly 300k viewers...draws bring high viewers in whatever they do. Punk needs those guys around him to get anywhere near those numbers...
Ryback has had weeks where he loses 500k and yet people say he is a draw so I think its fair to assume that it is partly due to it being Punk vs Vince, You must think if it was Vince VS Primo it would draw.
Quarter Hours - October 8th, 2012
Q1 - 4.31 million
Q2 - 4.07 million
Q3 - 4.52 million
Q4 - 3.87 million
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Q5 - 4.32 million
Q6/Q7 - 4.06 million
Q8 - 3.84 million
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Q9 - 4.05 million
Q10/Q11 - 4.02 million
Q12 - 3.70 million
Overrun - 4.93 million
Annoying that websites bundle quarters together, ie. Q10 and Q11: "The segment with Larry King, The Miz and Kofi Kingston plus Zack Ryder and Santino Marella vs. Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow lost 27,000 viewers."
What did the show open at? Would be interesting to see that number and then see how Cena did with it.
As for the rest of the numbers, only Vince/Punk was really worth anything. Vince brought in curious viewers and pairing him with Punk only drove that higher... people expect that pairing to produce sparks and it at least SEEMS unpredictable. So the number isn't just Vince's or just Punk's, it's the fact that the story to the segment is just intriguing. People want to see those two go at it... the more casual fans for Punk daring to go against the boss (o how times have changed...) and the smarkier crowd to see how Punk goes off about Vince's ability as the showrunner. It's a money program no matter how you look at it... it grabs everyone.
What did the show open at? Would be interesting to see that number and then see how Cena did with it.
As for the rest of the numbers, only Vince/Punk was really worth anything. Vince brought in curious viewers and pairing him with Punk only drove that higher... people expect that pairing to produce sparks and it at least SEEMS unpredictable. So the number isn't just Vince's or just Punk's, it's the fact that the story to the segment is just intriguing. People want to see those two go at it... the more casual fans for Punk daring to go against the boss (o how times have changed...) and the smarkier crowd to see how Punk goes off about Vince's ability as the showrunner. It's a money program no matter how you look at it... it grabs everyone.
I know that the divas have little time.
But it happens (to the divas) to gain viewers in a quarter sometimes.
Since WWE start and keep doing this feud about Katlyn ,Layla and Eve they lost viewer every week whatever the quarter was placed.I talk about a 8 week in a row of lost viewers.Maybe this Katlyn ,Layla and Eve thing doesn't positively work at all.
They had almost 5 million viewers for the main event which is great and the best numbers they've done it a while. The only question is, will it equal more people tuning in next week? I would think so, especially since they sort of implied that Vince was going to be there. Anybody else get that vibe? Either way, they left the whole Ryback/Cena choice thing as a hook so even if Vince isn't there fans have a reason to tune in to see who Punk is going to choose. Just goes to show that if you have an attraction to end the show, people WILL tune back in to watch it despite the 3 hour format. The main events have just been super shit, uninteresting and unimportant these past few months which is why we've seen the downward trend in the 3rd hour.
1.2 MILLION VIEWERS! YOU FUCKERS SEE THAT! THATS HOW YOU DRAW FANS YOU SONS OF BITCHES! HOJSDFLGKRSGHNU!!
I'd say they're more down to the fact that there was actually something people wanted to see on Raw for once, hence the big gains. Take away that main event and nowhere near over 1 million people are tuning in for that overrun. Not on your life.
The thing is with WWE is that the peak of 5 million shows that the audience is still there. Raw 1000 shows that those numbers can be achieved (I know that was nostalgia, but the point is there).
It is not a case of the viewers have gone and are never coming back. In 3 months once Rock is back, three hours is back down to two and WrestleMania season is in full swing, the numbers will be back up.
Hopefully. I say hopefully because this year only did ~4.5 million. But this year's build was uninspiring to say the least.
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