[kokepepsi]

Segment Breakdown
Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Raw on 3/26 did a 3.05 rating and 4.44 million viewers, numbers along the lines of most of the shows in the last few months, but a number that has to be disappointing as the final show leading into WrestleMania. Raw was the highest rated show on cable for the night. There was no other major sports competition and The History Channel shows that usually beat Raw were in reruns.

Last year’s WrestleMania go-home show which featured Rock and Cena in the key angle did a 3.84 rating and 5.89 million viewers, so a 21% decline in ratings and a 25% decline in total viewers.

The audience was 66.9% male. In the key demos, Male teens did a 2.3 (down 4% from last week), Males 18-49 did a 2.7 (same as last week), Female teens did a 0.9 (down 10%) and Women 18-49 did a 1.3 (up 18%).

In the segment-by-segment, Randy Orton & Sheamus vs. Daniel Bryan & Kane gained 239,000 viewers in a segment that usually doesn’t do well.

Santino Marella vs. David Otunga and the Undertaker/HHH/Shawn Michaels vignette lost 32,000 viewers.

Eve Torres vs. Kelly Kelly lost 246,000 viewers.

The C.M. Punk vs. Christian angle, Chris Jericho interview and Brodus Clay vs. Curt Hawkins in the top of the hour segment gained 132,000 viewers to a 2.96 rating which is terrible for the 10 p.m. quarter.

Big Show vs. Primo lost 104,000 viewers.

Mark Henry vs. Great Khali and the Team Teddy vs. Team Johnny complete teams angle gained 362,000 viewers which is very good.

The Rock/Cena show close gained 626,000 viewers which is again nothing special for the overrun, closing at a 3.57.

As far as the final segment growth, Teen boys went from 2.3 to 2.6, Teen girls from 1.1 to 1.0, Males 18-49 from 2.8 to 3.5 and Women 18-49 from 1.2 to 1.5

DVR NUMBERS WHY NOT

The 3/5 episode of Raw did 477,000 homes watching on tape or DVR, or about 13% of total viewers. That was the second week of Rock’s return and it may have been the largest (and if not, was close to the largest) number of DVR viewers for an episode of Raw in history. Last year, Rock saw DVR/tape viewership nearly double when he came back, but ratings themselves also went way up. This is only one week and the show he returned at was at normal levels, so it will be interesting to see if this ends up being the case for the rest of the pre-Mania run

[Wrestlinfan35]

A minor angle like the Teddy/Johnny thing doing good is great news. Good for the opening tag match as well. The 10 quarter did pretty bad, but that quarter always does bad when there's a commercial in the middle of it. Punk/Christian angle had like what, 3 minutes of that quarter? With the rest being a commercial and useless Brodus Clay. And again, Cena/Rock does extremely underwhelming. Seriously, what the hell? I shouldn't be too surprised since the promos are complete trash every week, but the shock of the angle doing bad is still there.

Overall very meh numbers.

[Nodune]

Mark "Ratings" Henry does it again. The guy is a legit draw.

Originally Posted by Wrestlinfan35

A minor angle like the Teddy/Johnny thing doing good is great news. Good for the opening tag match as well. The 10 quarter did pretty bad, but that quarter always does bad when there's a commercial in the middle of it. Punk/Christian angle had like what, 3 minutes of that quarter? With the rest being a commercial and useless Brodus Clay. And again, Cena/Rock does extremely underwhelming. Seriously, what the hell? I shouldn't be too surprised since the promos are complete trash every week, but the shock of the angle doing bad is still there.

Overall very meh numbers.

what about Jericho's interview? Punk was present. He didnt increase ratings with him being present there, no matter how long the segment was.

[Carcass]

Kane and DB as a team = ratings.

[Gamblor]

Meh, Clay probably caused a big loss of whatever Punk/Christian/Jericho gained.

Team Teddy/Team Johnny really seems to be hot with the casuals. If I'm not mistaken, they've gained every week in odd quarter hours haven't they? (note: I could be completely wrong on this).

[WrestlingforEverII]

Originally Posted by sharkboy22

WWE allowed it to the reach the point where no one cares bout Cena/Rock. Just piss poor booking.

So, I guess Miz=bigger draw than Triple H, Orton and Rock?

Rock didn't bring shit to ratings which shows how much that 1) The past stars only bring short run spike ratings and 2) The newer talent sucks and no one is interested in them or the product as a whole.

WWE wants to do a part 2 and 3? Part 1 is already turning out to be a damn flop. The Rock isn't gonna draw in 2012. The Rock isn't what the people want in 2012. What they want is REASON to watch wrestling. Good characters, good feuds.

RAW was complete shit last night. It felt more like the road to Capitol Punishment rather than the Road To Wrestlemania. Just no reason to look forward to the PPV at all.

The Rock is fine, but if creatively it sucks, hes no use. Just like everyone else.

[RatedR10]

Looking at those breakdowns, I wonder how much Clay/Hawkins lost since it was put together with the Jericho/Punk/Christian angle.

Mark "Ratings" Henry continues to live up to the name!

[Hladeit]

Where in the breakdown does it say "Clay/Hawkins lost viewers"?? Am i missing something here?

[Hanoi Cheyenne]

This threads gonna get VERY interesting in the next few weeks, probably even more so than pre-mania, how often can you say that.
one thing to note though - despite his huge ppv numbers, when Brock was a coach for a few weeks on The Ultimate Fighter a few years ago (before he pulled out with illness), the ratings were seen a big disappointment for a star of his calibre.
Doubt that matters now though, i know ill be watching.

[Jeffy]

I hope tonight's raw will deliver (anything above 3.3 would be fantastic), there wasn't anything that would cause a major drop or deserved. Whole show was action packed just like most of the shows back in the day. If they continue to book this way next few weeks and ratings deliver, than I think we will get major changes.


And WWE seriously needs to reconsider dropping stupid draft and just have 2 "supershows" - going from this to 15 min segment of Jinder Mhala taking off his turban? Fuck that. Raw looks goes much better when you have this big pool of wrestlers and you can mix them up however you want and they don't have to rely on same wrestlers every week.