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.
I love how people still bash Punk yet ignoring the fact that Cena/Ziggler did worse. It's not Punk, stop being so blind thinking one person changes the ratings. It's not Cena either, or Jericho or anyone. These storylines are some of the worst they've ever put out. It's hard to keep interest in the product. It's not up to one damn wrestler.
Ryder is somehow the biggest ratings killer it would appear, he's been constantly in the lowest, or one of the lowest rated segments, it's as if fans hate him. I can't see why (inb4Ryderhaters) since he's not THAT bad, even though his RAW character sucks compared to his youtube shows but compared to the rest of the show, the matches or segments with him seem to bomb bigtime.
maybe because for the past weeks they've been pairing him with the blandest diva since kelly kelly?
Eve has that talent Kelly has to suck out the interest of anything involved with a segment, every single segment where eve is loses ratings, and it's a proven fact
Judging by the normal fluctuations of ratings in between segments and the fact that your biggest new star in Jericho lost a lot of viewers, it really shouldn't be a surprise. Most people never watch a whole raw.
This pretty much, Jericho simply isn't that much of a star that using such a formula can work, he does get big pops but I feel he wanted to get even more, plus the fact that the fans didn't turn on him yet when he was supposed to get heat the first night he returned. Let's not forget that he was mostly an upper midcarder in his last run, all of a sudden he does segments where it's all about the fans cheering him? I mean the feud COULD work, if they build it up properly, but if this report is true (I hope it's dirtsheet bs) then CM Punk is in for a nightmare for WM:
WWE officials have suggested an idea that Jericho won't speak on RAW until after the Royal Rumble. There is talk to have Jericho win the Royal Rumble and then finally speak for the first time by giving a victory speech and maybe calling out WWE Champion CM Punk for Wrestlemania 28.
Why are people on CM Punk's back. Saying stuff like he can't draw or it's all his fault for the slump in ratings. Reality check it's not Punk it's the product as a whole. The face is meant to sell merchandise, the story line draws the ratings and heel makes it interesting. It all blends and mixes to make an entertaining and fun to watch show. Let's not beat around the bush the storylines are awful and some backroom staff need sacked, I don't like people getting sacked but they've been so bad for too long they need to go. Vince needs to realise what people want and mix it up abit, you can cater to kids for so long they will grow up and think I'm not watching this shit and stop watching all together. As for the heels I enjoy watching ziggler in the ring but he just isn't interesting whatsoever, same with Alberto del rio. Miz is interesting but can't hold as the main heel. Stop blaming Punk, when they gave him something decent to work with you were all over his cock now the writing and storylines are horrible it's all his fault, he's bland, boring and it's his fault the ratings a low. It's a 2hour show not 15minutes! The people to blame are not the wrestlers but the writers!
Only just managed to see Raw and I'm not usually a complainer, I don't remember me ever slagging off WWE like most people do. But this Raw was fucking awful if I'd of been watching it live I would of given up and gone to sleep. Even the Jericho thing is pissing me off now, I know I'm supposed to be pissed off but it's making me not care about him at all "Oh great Jericho not saying anything" why the fuck would I want to watch that. I can't remember a Raw being this bad tbh.
And the Brodus Clay debut wtf? I know it'll be some storyline of them punishing him or something and eventually he'll be a monster but it pretty much killed any momentum (even if it was just a small amount) he had of being a monster heel.
Anyway, Raw was poor.
Oh and for anyone who says "Don't watch if you don't like it" I probably won't watch alot of next week's show as I'll be skipping any segments/matches that are shit...
I feel like they had a bunch of matches from August to October. I remember really enjoying one of them more than the others but I have no idea on the date.
The viewership and rating for the January 16th episode of RAW are delayed until tomorrow due to the holidays in America yesterday.
I hope it's up on last week, it deserves to be, really. It'll probably be an early 4 million again, but I hope we don't see an hour under 4 million again.
A collective sigh of relief goes around WWE HQ. Still not great numbers, but after last week, an increase and both hours above 4 million even if not comfortably above that mark.
Both Raw and SD went up by .3M viewers from the week before.
Wonder how soon until people say the ratings are cause henry was in the main event(despite the fact that punk was there too,and ppl somehow thinks that he makes a difference in past weeks for ratings dropping)
Am I right in thinking there was no football this week? People have been saying the last few weeks that ratings should start improving on the 16th since there isn't any football to compete with
Yeah. I was expecting quite a bump since there was no football. I don't think these are good numbers at all tbh. I guess they are fine with coasting though since they can bank on Rock returning and boosting everything up pretty soon. The quarter hours should be interesting to say the least though. We got Cena in an unusual quarter hour, we got no powerhouse in the 10pm timeslot which was left to Truth/Barrett/Miz/Seamus and Punk finally got to go off on one again but it wasn't against a huge name like it was before. I'll be looking forward to those lol.
the same 20 people withtv's that affect ratings watch tv every week
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