[Warrior]

Interesting breakdown, Daniel Bryan and his segments was the backbone of RAW for the second hour and managed to draw in some viewers, good for him. Also the 1 million gain in the main event is very impressive.

[Jammy]

Originally Posted by SarcasmoBlaster

The opening quarter hour can't lose viewers because it's the opening quarter hour.

And I know people want to know how many viewers the opening segment did so we can do "Punk is/is not a draw" part one million, but all the opening viewership is really going to tell you is how many people actually remembered that RAW was going to three hours, which is honestly probably not many.

Well, it will provide an indication whether the Punk heel turn hook at end of RAW 1000 was strong enough to deliver strong viewership for the opening.

[SarcasmoBlaster]

Originally Posted by Jammy

Well, it will provide an indication whether the Punk heel turn hook at end of RAW 1000 was strong enough to deliver strong viewership for the opening.

Except to assume that, you would also have to assume that everyone knew that RAW was starting an hour early, and that is not the case.

[Jammy]

Could the 3rd recap segment of Stephanie + Heyman loosing 250k factor into the 1 mil overrun? I think it did, all those viewers tuning back.

[SarcasmoBlaster]

Originally Posted by Jammy

Could the 3rd recap segment of Stephanie + Heyman loosing 250k factor into the 1 mil overrun? I think it did, all those viewers tuning back.

Yeah, that seems like exactly what happened. It's probably going to become a regular thing if they keep pounding the recaps like that.

[yoseftigger]

No surprise. Cena is their current biggest TV draw. Big Show is also another big TV draw. No shit their match is going to draw big. Plus the match went long and was quite good for Big Show.

[DesolationRow]

Originally Posted by SarcasmoBlaster

The opening quarter hour can't lose viewers because it's the opening quarter hour.

And I know people want to know how many viewers the opening segment did so we can do "Punk is/is not a draw" part one million, but all the opening viewership is really going to tell you is how many people actually remembered that RAW was going to three hours, which is honestly probably not many.

EDIT: Not saying that's why you want to know, btw, just that that is what the many people here will use the opening number for, unfortunately.

Essentially what I was just thinking as I was reading over comments asking about what the opening quarter hour drew. Unfortunately, the 8:00pm start time is going to make many opening hours from here on have oddball numbers, because WWE's somehow done a rather poor job of establishing, with no ambiguity, that Raw is now a three-hour show. It was like the 1,000th episode ate up so much oxygen, the move to three hours was lost.

But, anyway... Daniel Bryan is a Ratings Dynamo!

[funnyfaces1]

Daniel Bryan doing what he does best: DRAW.

[totoyotube]

Wow, are you guys really trying to say He is a draw because of that 500k boost? That was because of the 9 pm time slot, not him XD. That 200k one is fine but the 500k he had nothing to do with

[ChickMagnet12]

The Big Show vs Mark Henry at Wrestlemania 29.

More buys than Cena-Rock.