[Wrestlinfan35]

Originally Posted by JasonLives

Overrun isnt counted into the overall rating, it stands by itself.

Is this true? Never knew that, personally.

[Algernon]

The crackdown on internet piracy is helping the numbers. Far fewer people streamed the Rumble or were able to download the show and therefore tuned in to RAW to see the results. I wont be surprised at all if PPV buys go up. Hell that probably explains TLC's buys going up.

So I don't think that many people were tuning out I believe more people were watching online than ever before. Now that they can't do that or are afraid that they'll get in trouble, ratings and buys will go up if they still want to watch.

[Rock316AE]

Originally Posted by Wrestlinfan35

Is this true? Never knew that, personally.

Good for you, because it's not true at all, overrun is not a segment on the show but it's part of the overall rating, That's why they're doing it, to gain viewers to your show from a different fanbase.

[chronoxiong]

Awesome number for this week's show! Glad to hear it and hope it continues to stay in that range. The show was entertaining too so I wonder how the segment ratings will do.

[Wrestlinfan35]

Originally Posted by Rock316AE

Good for you, because it's not true at all, overrun is not a segment on the show but it's part of the overall rating, That's why they're doing it, to gain viewers to your show from a different fanbase.

Ah okay, makes sense. Just wanted to know. Thanks for the info.

[Punter]

Good number. It'll be interesting to see the Quarter hour breakdown to see what lost viewers. Also really interested in what the overrun did.

[Gamblor]

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I am disappointed.

Not ONE single "BRYAN=RATINGS!" post in this thread. (Not that it's true or not true or that Bryan had anything to do with Raw ratings, but you'd expect it at least).

[Carcass]

Obviously it's thanks to DB. Everyone thought the match in the second hour was the ME so they tuned out after the match was over which explains the dip between hour 1 and hour 2. SD'll probably get great ratings too because everyone's excited to see what DB's gonna do following his epic victory over the current WWE champion.

[Smith_Jensen]

Originally Posted by Carcass

Obviously it's thanks to DB. Everyone thought the match in the second hour was the ME so they tuned out after the match was over which explains the dip between hour 1 and hour 2. SD'll probably get great ratings too because everyone's excited to see what DB's gonna do following his epic victory over the current WWE champion.

Don't get too excited yet, the quarter hour ratings are not out yet.

[WashingtonD]

Originally Posted by Rock316AE

Good for you, because it's not true at all, overrun is not a segment on the show but it's part of the overall rating, That's why they're doing it, to gain viewers to your show from a different fanbase.

The overrun is actually a habit developed from the Monday Night Wars era.. when WCW was live and Raw wasn't, they would do an overrun on Nitro to gain viewers tuning out from Raw, as Raw was taped and always finished in the alotted time. When Raw went live, they did the overrun too and it has always stayed like that since then