[Shazayum]

Rating next week is probably going to be like a 3.2. Nothing is really expected except the fallout from the Punk heel turn. Neither Brock nor Rock are advertised. If they want the ratings to be up for at least the next few weeks, they'd better do a hell of a job building this angle.

[Best-In-The-World]

WWE and Vince need to keep fresh and exciting story lines an ongoing thing right now. Now I know it was a special episode of RAW, but if you want to keep some of these viewers come back, they don't want to see brodus clay, and other nonsense and recaps. Even if you want to keep a small portion of this audience that was apart of the 1000th RAW, show needs to start off with a bang, fuck the recaps. Have some interesting Feuds going on, keep this Punk situation interesting. Please don't resort to just throwing the usual on, make some of these extra viewers continue to watch, even a small improvement is better than nothing.

[RatedR10]

Nearly 7 million people witnessed the Punk turn. I guarantee there'll be people who aren't regular viewers tuning in next week to watch and see the explanation. Nice hook by WWE.

The breakdown is crazy. Random gains in the middle of the hour. To my count from what I read, EVERY segment in the 10-11 PM hour gained from the Lesnar/HHH/Heyman/McMahon angle, to the Slater/Legends pay-off to The Undertaker's return. Fucking crazy. This has to be a definite success in the eyes of WWE with these numbers.

[A-C-P]

Nothing really surprising from the breakdwon show was destined to do big viewer #s. Like Starbuck said next week is the real test.

IT did surprise me that both segments with The Rock were "surprises" and scheduled at the top of one of the hours

[apokalypse]

Daniel "Ratings" Bryan

[Bob the Jobber]

Daniel needs to do something along the lines of the old Rock trademark "this ain't sing along with the champ" line when the crowd starts chanting with him. All that did was make the crowd love Rock even more. They wanted Rock to be a face more than anything I've ever seen in wrestling. Yes, that went completely off topic.

[funnyfaces1]

Daniel "Ratings" Bryan at it again.

[WrestlingforEverII]

Originally Posted by Starbuck

The drop next week is going to be comical. We all know it's coming but it's still funny to think about lol. Whatever way the final number turns out, Punk needs to hit it out of the park next week. Like they said here, almost 7 million people saw that go down. 4 million is their audience for the average Raw these days with anything over 5 million being a great success. I'd like to think whatever he does next week can hit that. It almost has to tbh.

lol the drop is going to be huge.

[Best-In-The-World]

Also I'm guessing but the first hour of next week's raw may take a slight hit because probably many viewers are forgetting or dont know it's permanent 3 hours from here on out.

[D.M.N.]

Obis has covered the numbers below, but just for consistency purposes, my post is below. I am assuming the breakdown has ignored Q12 because there is no way hour 2 averaged 6.3m with the breakdown as it is. Hence, Q12 in the below has a low number:

Quarter Hours - July 23rd, 2012
Q1 - 3.55 rating / 5.55 million
Q2 - 3.57 rating / 5.57 million
Q3 - 3.31 rating / 5.18 million
Q4 - 3.52 rating / 5.50 million
Q5 - 3.91 rating / 6.12 million
Q6 - 4.28 rating / 6.69 million
Q7 - 3.63 rating / 5.80 million
Q8 - 3.83 rating / 6.13 million
Q9 - 3.89 rating / 6.22 million
Q10 - 3.99 rating / 6.25 million
Q11 - 4.25 rating / 6.54 million
Q12 - 3.65 rating / 5.62 million
Overrun - 4.43 rating / 6.93 million

Obviously a brilliant breakdown, which does not need to be said, really. Onto the next bit:

Q1 - 5.55 million (0.00 gain) <-- no commercials
Q2 - 5.71 million (0.14 gain) <-- 3 minutes stripped out; end of DX segment, Raw previews, JR; Six-Man Tag Team match entrances
Q3 - 5.52 million (0.35 gain) <-- 6 minutes stripped out; Six-Man Tag Team match, Touts, Charlie Sheen live
Q4 - 5.87 million (0.37 gain) <-- 6 minutes stripped out; AJ and Layla backstage, Swagger vs Clay, DX and Trish backstage
Q5 - 6.27 million (0.15 gain) <-- 3 minutes stripped out; The Wedding of AJ and Daniel Bryan
Q6 - 6.74 million (0.05 gain) <-- 1 minutes stripped out; Bryan, Punk and Rock segment
Q7 - 6.31 million (0.51 gain) <-- 7 minutes stripped out; Christian vs The Miz
Q8 - 6.29 million (0.15 gain) <-- 3 minutes stripped out; Charlie Sheen live, Raw moment, start of HHH/Lesnar segment
Q9 - 6.64 million (0.41 gain) <-- 6 minutes stripped out; end of Lesnar/HHH segment, Touts, WWE '13 preview, Raw moment
Q10 - 6.40 million (0.16 gain) <-- 3 minutes stripped out; Slater vs Lita, Bryan recap and interview, WWE's 100,000,000 social media follower
Q11 - 6.70 million (0.16 gain) <-- 3 minutes stripped out; Raw 1000's famous catchphrases, Ryder, Mene Gene, Cena and Rock backstage, Kane and Undertaker reunion
Q12 - 6.11 million (0.49 gain) <-- 7 minutes stripped out; Be a Star promo, Charlie Sheen live, Cena and Punk entrances
Q13 - 6.93 million (0.00 gain) <-- no commercials

In order therefore:

6.93 million - WWE Championship match
6.73 million - Punk, Bryan and Rock segment
6.70 million - Kane and Undertaker reunion
6.64 million - Lesnar and HHH segment
6.40 million - Slater vs Lita
6.27 million - The Wedding

I'm going to do something more detailed later, which I will probably put into spoiler tags.