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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.
 
#185 ·
Daniel Bryan as world champ is absolutely laughable in a casual viewers eyes. The guys reaction to rolling up rhodes or whoever he faced was cringeworthy. Jumping around like a 5 year old girl? Embarrassing. Whoever wrote that can be blamed as well.

CM Punk will be jobbed out to Brodus Clay very soon. The guy is only likable by the IWC. Casual viewers probably don't even see why he is a face and why they should even like him. No good looks, Was an extremely hated heel who probably pissed off a lot of smokers/beer drinkers with his last role. He still acts like his arrogant character from the past but cornier except now he wants fans to like him, not working for casuals.

The WWE needs Batista back, many casuals I know loved the guy.
 
#186 ·
Daniel Bryan as world champ is absolutely laughable in a casual viewers eyes. The guys reaction to rolling up rhodes or whoever he faced was cringeworthy. Jumping around like a 5 year old girl? Embarrassing. Whoever wrote that can be blamed as well.

CM Punk will be jobbed out to Brodus Clay very soon. The guy is only likable by the IWC. Casual viewers probably don't even see why he is a face and why they should even like him. No good looks, Was an extremely hated heel who probably pissed off a lot of smokers/beer drinkers with his last role. He still acts like his arrogant character from the past but cornier except now he wants fans to like him, not working for casuals.

The WWE needs Batista back, many casuals I know loved the guy.
Listen to the live audience plz.

And no, Batista was horrible. Had about 10 high quality matches in his career and 5 of them came from a guy who wrestles once a year now.
 
#197 ·
December 26th, 2011 - Breakdown
Q1 - 4.42 million / 2.90 rating
Q2 - 4.27 million / 2.80 rating
Q3 - 4.35 million / 2.85 rating
Q4 - 4.28 million / 2.81 rating
Q5 - 4.61 million / 3.03 rating
Q6 - 4.64 million / 3.05 rating
Q7 - 4.27 million / 2.81 rating
Q8 - 4.45 million / 2.92 rating
OR - 4.99 million / 3.26 rating

Q7 would have been from 22:30 to 22:45, I'm not sure how many commercials that quarter had, but not good when it features the WWE Champion as it was the joint lowest of the night.
 
#201 ·
My apologies, I'd like to add that Batista/Rey as a team was pretty good too.

I just couldn't get into him on a regular basis. Like his feuds with Edge, Orton, Rey, etc just didn't click for me.

His matches with good stories to them were great though (Taker series, HIAC with Trips, Stretcher match with HBK).
 
#202 ·
Batista's matches vs Edge on smackdown always put me to sleep. Especially considering the fact that it seemed like they faced each other every week for two months straight. They're styles didn't mix well together. Now that I think about it. I actually hated that whole period of Smackdown.
 
#211 ·
For the record, I don't think the ratings threads should be stickied. It's like having one big thread for Raw every week and is just going to mess everything up. Also, why people think this is the first time bitch fights have erupted over ratings is beyond me. They happen all the time and have happened in the past to this extreme, usually when somebody the IWC likes or dislikes draws or loses viewers yet somehow those threads didn't get stickied. Don't see why this should be any different tbh and it does whiff of the fact that it involves Punk and some of the mods are Punk marks. Pretty sure if these shitstorms were erupting about somebody else, see Orton in 2010 for example, that there would be no sticky thread.

On the actual ratings front from last week, which we now have to go hunting back for which is why I don't like the idea of having one big ratings thread, there isn't much to say other than the same thing we've been saying for ages now. Cena draws on all fronts and that's about it really. The low start to the show is pretty shitty but there was no build for anything going into that show iirc so it shouldn't be surprising that nobody tuned in. The big news will come when we get this weeks rating breakdown because that's the interesting one.
 
#234 ·
For the record, I don't think the ratings threads should be stickied. It's like having one big thread for Raw every week and is just going to mess everything up. Also, why people think this is the first time bitch fights have erupted over ratings is beyond me. They happen all the time and have happened in the past to this extreme, usually when somebody the IWC likes or dislikes draws or loses viewers yet somehow those threads didn't get stickied. Don't see why this should be any different tbh and it does whiff of the fact that it involves Punk and some of the mods are Punk marks. Pretty sure if these shitstorms were erupting about somebody else, see Orton in 2010 for example, that there would be no sticky thread.

On the actual ratings front from last week, which we now have to go hunting back for which is why I don't like the idea of having one big ratings thread, there isn't much to say other than the same thing we've been saying for ages now. Cena draws on all fronts and that's about it really. The low start to the show is pretty shitty but there was no build for anything going into that show iirc so it shouldn't be surprising that nobody tuned in. The big news will come when we get this weeks rating breakdown because that's the interesting one.
Lol, the sticky is clearly a way for the fanboys (aka Mods) of this site to offload the fact that their hero is a failure. Nobody bothers to read stickied threads except the Raw thread.
That's exactly what I said, too obvious. and lol @ Punk in the lowest rated segment, when the hell that happened before? the WWE champion doing numbers like that, probably Nash or not even him. would be funny to see what happen after WM.
 
#212 ·
Raw on 12/26 did a 2.93 rating and 4.47 million viewers. The rating was almost identical with the prior week but there were 180,000 more viewers on a night when overall television viewership was down 7.7%, although that’s misleading because all the networks were in reruns. The show was 6th for the night on cable. The Atlanta Falcons vs. New Orleans Saints game where Drew Brees set the all-time single season passing yardage record did a 10.60 rating and 15.64 million viewers.

The big news is the curse of the second hour losing audience from the first hour ended. The reason is more that the first hour didn’t do well, then the second hour did well. In particular, Raw of late has been starting with a strong first quarter, but the C.M. Punk/John Laurinaitis first quarter did a only a 2.94, and the usual big drop didn’t happen. There were a significant amount of usual Raw viewers who either didn’t bother to watch the first quarter and turn it off like usual, or did watch it but turned it off in a minute.

The show did a 2.3 in Males 12-17 (down 18% from last week), 2.6 in Males 18-49 (up 4%), 1.1 in Females 12-17 (up 38%) and 1.2 in Females 18-49 (down 8%). Male viewership was 67.1% of total viewers.

In the segment-by-segment, Booker T vs. Cody Rhodes lost 149,000 viewers. Backstage stuff with John Cena and Zack Ryder, Big Show and Kelly Kelly, Laurinaitis, Show and David Otunga and Jack Swagger, Dolph Ziggler, Vickie Guerrero and Mark Henry gained 78,000 viewers. Ryder & Eve Torres vs. Tyson Kidd & Natalya and a Cena interview lost 67,000 viewers. Cena vs. The Miz and post-match R-Truth attack gained 325,000 viewers, which is below usual but better than in some recent weeks. Big Show vs. David Otunga with one hand tied behind his back and an Alberto Del Rio interview with the Bellas gained 34,000 viewers. Punk vs. Swagger lost 367,000 viewers. Punk vs. Ziggler gained 172,000 viewers to a 2.91 main event average. The Cena/Kane overrun gained 543,000 viewers to a do a 3.26. As far as the demo changes with Cena and Kane out last, Male teens went from 2.8 to 3.1, Men 18-49 went from 2.8 to 3.2, Women teens went from 1.0 to 1.3 and Women 18-49 stayed at 1.0.
So, Cena is still a bigger draw than Punk?
 
#225 · (Edited)
This sticky thread is a way to take the attention away from punk since he isnt a draw and will never be

My question is why wasnt this made when Orton or Cena was champ? There were countless threads on this forum "Orton cant draw, Orton doesnt bring in ratings, Take the title off Orton" but no no lets make it a sticky thread since our god is champ and members rarely take the time out to read them so in the end punk will look good. SMH.
 
#230 ·
Ratings will be bad next week too...They keep going up against really good Football games. After the 9th it will get alot better because the only competition left will be history channel
 
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