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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.
 
#857 ·
I think Shaq/Show does have a great probability to outdraw HHH/Taker. Shaq working the late night shows, doing interviews on ESPN and dropping WWE plugs on NBA halftime show would spread the word of Wrestlemania. I'd honestly rather see Shaq/Barkley instead of Shaq/Show. Seeing them bicker and throw some jabs at each other during the show makes me believe there is legitimate heat between them
 
#859 ·
Shaq is huge name worldwide, He can bring a lot of fans and with Show, even if they had never heard of him, the image and their size is enough to sell the match. Of course you need to build this type of a match as a real fight or something like that, not the regular pro wrestling feud, gym segments etc, just like the Floyd feud which was the selling point of WM24 and a big success.
 
#862 ·
I don't know much about ratings, so I have to ask: would Undertaker's SURPRISE return have affected ratings? It was just 7 minutes long, how can that much time be enough to boost ratings? Sorry if that sounds stupid. :)
 
#863 · (Edited)
January 30th, 2012
Hour 1 - 5.318m (last week: 4.667m)
* last year - 5.231m
Hour 2 - 5.124m (last week: 4.568m)
* last year - 5.338m

Source: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...-lost-girl-wwe-raw-housewives-bh-more/118084/

Last Week
- Hour 1 - 1.8 18-49 rating
- Hour 2 - 1.7 18-49 rating

This Week
- Hour 1 - 2.1 18-49 rating
- Hour 2 - 2.1 18-49 rating

Obviously really good numbers for all concerned. Last year, the numbers went back under 5m, but with them bringing 'Taker back last night, one has to wonder if the ratings will increase next week.

Also, just because hour 2 is lower than hour 1, the overrun will probably still be near ~6m.
 
#875 · (Edited)
Cool, they actually pulled in the big numbers.

I'm sure once Taker's gong hit people immediately started tuning in (along with people who were waiting for their next show to start) and I would think that would've helped out. Maybe the whole Taker/HHH/Laurinitis thing just bombed. Maybe the second hour as a whole went down to the mid 4.5 million and the whole Taker/HHH/Laurinitis (and yeah, I'm probably spelling his name wrong) brought in over a million viewers.

Quarter hours will be interesting to see. But overall good numbers.

Edit: Also, does anyone know what the rating is? (Just for personal curiosity). It's not above 4.0, right?
 
#876 ·
Interestingly, for the same show year-on-year:

- 2011 - 1.8 (5.2m) and 1.9 (5.3m) 18-49 rating
- 2012 - 2.1 (5.3m) and 2.1 (5.1m) 18-49 rating

The RAW before WrestleMania did a 2.1 (5.4m) and 2.5 (6.2m) 18-49 rating so the demos look very good year-on-year.
 
#880 ·
Last year:

WWE News: Raw TV ratings are in for Monday's show - did Raw pop a rating after the Royal Rumble PPV?

WWE Raw on Monday, January 31 scored a 3.5 rating and averaged 5.3 million viewers for the Raw after the Royal Rumble.

Raw scored its highest rating since August 30, which was also a 3.5 rating, before the start of the fall 2010 TV season.

Overall for the night, Raw was #3 on cable TV behind History Channel's "Pawn Stars" and "American Pickers." In the adult male demos, Raw was #2 behind "Pawn Stars."

In a week-to-week comparison, Raw's adult demo ratings were essentially flat with last week's Raw despite the ratings increase. It shows the strength of History Channel's adult male-oriented programming, which topped the highest-rated Raw episode in five months.

Looking beyond adult viewers, the ratings increase came from younger teen viewers.

-Raw scored one of its highest ratings among males 12-17 in over one year. - Raw's m12-17 rating was up 27 percent compared to last week and 41 percent vs. two weeks ago.

-Among males 12-34, Raw was up 9 percent compared to last week's show and 15 percent vs. two weeks ago.
Breakdown:
Raw on 1/31 did a 3.48 rating and 5.29 million viewers. It was the most viewers for an episode of Raw since 3/29 (the
night after last year’s WrestleMania when Shawn Michaels did his farewell) and the highest rated episode of Raw since
8/30 (3.50 rating for the 900th episode celebration and also just before football season started). It was the fourth highest
rated show on cable for the night, with 66% male viewers (back to normal skew after low women numbers last week).

In the segment-by-segment, they opened strong after the Rumble at a 3.81 quarter, and were doing the TNA pattern of
not keeping the audience until a strong overrun. Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov defending the tag titles against
Husky Harris & Michael McGillicutty lost 784,000 viewers, which is horrible. I mean, like among the worst numbers you’ll
ever see. The deal where Randy Orton punted Harris and the Jerry Lawler-Ted DiBiase confrontation gained 337,000
viewers. Daniel Bryan vs. Tyson Kidd lost 304,000 viewers. Edge vs. Miz in the title vs. title, where they sent out John
Cena at the end, gained 222,000 viewers, which is better than last week, but terrible for the 10 p.m. slot. There was no
drop this week in Male teens as it was up 4.3 to 4.5, although again that’s less then the usual gain. Eve Torres & Natalya
vs. LayCool plus the Great Khali-Mark Henry vs. Usos dance-off lost 129,000 viewers which is good for that time slot.
The preview of â€oeThe Chaperone― lost 172,000 viewers, which I’d also consider good. The Raw Rumble match gained
1,198,000 viewers, which is excellent, and did a 4.04 final quarter, the first time an overrun has broken 4.0 in a while. I
think we can count on a second Rumble on television the day after the Royal Rumble as an annual tradition based on
those numbers.
Funny how Ace lied on RAW that the ratings are up from this time last year, when in reality, In January, there was a big drop from last year and a HUGE drop from every year since 98 #cheapheat ...
 
#886 ·
The way I'm figuring it is like this...

two weeks ago Raw was a 3.0 and had 4.29 million viewers. Last week was a 3.2 with 4.62 million viewers (+330,000), and this week was like 5.22 million viewers (+600,000), so it could maybe even be a 3.6

I'm not sure though if that's the proper way to figure out ratings besides simply waiting for it, but that's what I'm using until otherwise corrected. :p
 
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