[kokepepsi]

More on RATINGS

Viewers were down 10% compared to last week and very slightly lower than the other shows of the past month. For whatever reason, the Mania build is not resulting in audience build this year. Again, I don’t believe that indicates a bad buy rate because we’ve seen over the years a lack of correlation between ratings and subsequent buy rates. But for a company that rests so much on ratings, this number two weeks out from Mania on a show so loaded with the old stars has to be frustrating. The same show two weeks out from Mania last year, where Rock wasn’t there live, did a 3.35 rating and 5.13 million viewers.

With the added Rock/Cena doc they will show all week I am bumping my prediction to 1.1million buys

[The-Rock-Says]

Some of the time slots are strange for that doc on other channels. E! has it one at 1am in the morning in the US.

[the fox]

Santino Marella vs. David Otunga and the interview with The Rock outside in Philadelphia gained 205,000 viewers

this actually mean that the rock promo gained atleast 600,000 viewers because forsure santino vs otunga lost atleast 450,000 + what kane and show lost
but maybe i got it wrong

[deatawaits]

Originally Posted by the fox

this actually mean that the rock promo gained atleast 600,000 viewers because forsure santino vs otunga lost atleast 450,000 + what kane and show lost
but maybe i got it wrong

Well it can be.But then again we can say that for any segment that loses viewers as we only have ratings for quarters and a there can be many segments in one Quarter.

[Starbuck]

Viewership dropping by 10% is just...I don't even know what it is tbh. I think this is just going to end up being one big anomaly. Ratings going in with so much star power doing horrible numbers yet the actual event probably breaking records. There's no other explanation for it other than WTF lol. Still the HIAC and Rock/Cena are the only things that are able to gain in viewers but it was nothing all too great this time around.

[A-C-P]

How many weeks in a row are these segments breakdown reports going to keep saying that the gain for the 10 PM slot was a weak gain for that slot (outside of the one week it gained 800,000 for the HHH/Taker/HBK stuff) before they jsut start to realize thats the new "norm" for that quater?

As for the segment breakdown, not really surprising that Rock/Cena and HHH/Taker/HBK stuf are the only quarters that gained b/c thats really the only programs the WWE has made seem matter.

[Alcoholic]

Anyone know if DVR recordings get calculated into the viewership numbers?

[wb1899]

Originally Posted by Alcoholic

Anyone know if DVR recordings get calculated into the viewership numbers?

We see Live+SD (Live program viewing plus any DVR viewing that happens up until 3am the morning after the program airs) numbers every week.

[SimplyIncredible]

Damm...once Rock and the rest of the former attitude era stars are finished....WWE are going to be in a tad spot of trouble I think.

[SimplyIncredible]

But they will still get 1 million buys + for WM EASILY.

There are SO many WWE marks out there who will pay for whatever shit Vince throws at them just because it has a WWE logo on it, you could have a toad vs a badger for the main event and you would still get 500k+ buying it, just out of habit.

The only reason WWE is still making money is because of their legions of marks who will literally never stop watching, and never stop ordering PPVs, no matter how bad it gets, and see WWE as pro wrestling, not just a pro wrestling company.

The following the company gained during the attitude era has pretty much ensured they can put on any old shit and always make money, those people will always be there .

Ratings dont mean half as much for WWE as they used to when WCW was around.