[Cliffy Byro]

If the network cares so much about that demographic why is vince going after 8 year olds ?

[blarg_]

Originally Posted by Cliffy Byro

If the network cares so much about that demographic why is vince going after 8 year olds ?

In all fairness, the WWE are trying to maximise their audience by appealing to all demographics, they're just doing a piss poor job at it.

In many ways, the positioning of CM Punk and Daniel Bryan have been attempts at having a more mature audience tune in every week, the problem is that they're treating these as afterthoughts to the storylines that are designed to appeal to the younger fans. It's like watching a 2 hour episode of the Mighty morphin Power Rangers with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro making a 10 minute cameo.

The WWE knows that it can't compete with UFC's stranglehold of the 18-34 male demographic, so they aim all their focus on the dem that hasn't been cornered yet. Intelligent business strategy is only it was followed up with compelling storytelling.

[D.M.N.]

Originally Posted by Therapy

Last week was 4.3 / 4.1

For clarity, the numbers you have quoted are not for this past Monday. Monday's cable ratings are not out yet.

[Therapy]

Indeed you're right. My dates are all fucked up because of the 3 weekend..

[D.M.N.]

Hour 1 - 3.918m
Hour 2 - 3.911m

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...s-more/136104/

Hatfield and McCoys on the History channel had a mammoth 13.87 million at 21:00, so under 4 million does not surprise me.

[Choke2Death]

Well deserved flop for a horrible show. I can only hope the ratings sink lower and lower.

[A-C-P]

Originally Posted by D.M.N.

Hour 1 - 3.918m
Hour 2 - 3.911m

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...s-more/136104/

Hatfield and McCoys on the History channel had a mammoth 13.87 million at 21:00, so under 4 million does not surprise me.

Holy Crap, I saw the commercials for Hatfield and McCoys (which I DVR'ed and it was quite good) and thought it would do a good # but wow not that good.

As for the # for Raw btw Hatfield and The NBA play-off game the low # is not surprising. Also, not totally surprised a show focused arounf The Big Show not doing well is not a total surprise either. And not just blaming the Big Show here. A show focused around any 1 superstar is never going to bring in huge ratings #s (for the most part, I am sure there are exceptions) Wonder how long until WWE creative realizes that they need numerous involved storylines involvng all levels of the card to really interest people, rather just having one main storyline focues around ONE guy dominating the show and treating the rest of the roster as "filler"

[Rock316AE]

Horrible number as expected. I see Show's great promo and Show/Clay doing decent(gain, for the standard of the show), other than that RAW was horrendous, hopefully next month Rey and Henry are coming back and Orton/Sheamus needs to be a RAW feud. Then in July, Lesnar can keep their head above water.

- WWE’s new primary goal is TV ratingsand their various TV products. The change in direction has been in the making for some time now and comes straight from Vince McMahon.

Can't wait for panic reports in the WWE HQ when the 2.5-2.6s will be the regular. Hopeless company, everything is backwards.

[The GOAT One]

It seems like u want the company to fail rock316ae

[kokepepsi]

I have been wanting to see them fail since 05 so they would get rid of Cena
7 yrs later and the fucker is still on top(DESPITE NOT HAVING THE STRAP) while the show barely gets a 3.0 rating