[Choke2Death]

That 140k report was definitely bullshit. How come every other segment gained or lost 140k viewers? LOL.

For the real numbers posted by DMN above, not quite as low as expected.

[Gamblor]

140,000 is the number of the day I suppose. Still, I can't imagine the gain being much higher and a 2.3 for the main event is terrible. Hell, the fact the highest point in the show was a 2.5 is terrible.

[roadkill_]

2.31 according to PWTorch. Ouch.

[chucky101]

and another week of losing viewers in the third hour

wouldn't it make more sense for usa to buy a program for half the price or even a 1/3 the price of raw, run some "big bang theory" repeat shows like other networks do, and do a 1.0-1.8

its less risk and less money and can still draw a descent rating

[dxbender]

Don't get why people care about the exact number of viewers or tv rating.

What they should be caring about, is amount of viewers Raw has over all the other cable tv shows that air in the same timeslot.

Raw is a top show on cable tv on monday nights in primetime, so don't get why people even care about all these other factors.

Are you working for WWE? Does your job depend on the rating of the show? So why do people care about all this stuff.

[roadkill_]

Because it affects the decisions management takes. And some serious decisions need to be taken.

[Evil Peter]

Originally Posted by roadkill_

Because it affects the decisions management takes. And some serious decisions need to be taken.

I don't know if it means that though. Raw being three hours is something that lowers the ratings but it also increases the profit for WWE. Punk gets criticism for not increasing the ratings as a champ but WWE has obviously seen enough value in him to have him champ for over 400 days. That only makes sense if you think that WWE gives out long title reigns just because they are nice. The ratings have constantly been going down for several years and they still aren't making any changes to their biggest star, Cena, either. On the contrary there were reports from Meltzer that Cena and Punk were the only two guys WWE had full confidence in, despite that they aren't changing the downward trend.

So I don't see anything drastic WWE is doing due to the ratings. Bringing in guys like The Rock would have been done anyway. It just looks like WWE is doing their thing without any significant changes, which makes it look like the fans are more panicked about ratings than they are.

[SerapisLiber]

Yeah, they value dollar signs over ratings. Sure, they'd love it if ratings were higher, but as long as profits are around the same or even higher, they see no need to change.

[Defei]

Originally Posted by Evil Peter

I don't know if it means that though. Raw being three hours is something that lowers the ratings but it also increases the profit for WWE. Punk gets criticism for not increasing the ratings as a champ but WWE has obviously seen enough value in him to have him champ for over 400 days. That only makes sense if you think that WWE gives out long title reigns just because they are nice. The ratings have constantly been going down for several years and they still aren't making any changes to their biggest star, Cena, either. On the contrary there were reports from Meltzer that Cena and Punk were the only two guys WWE had full confidence in, despite that they aren't changing the downward trend.

So I don't see anything drastic WWE is doing due to the ratings. Bringing in guys like The Rock would have been done anyway. It just looks like WWE is doing their thing without any significant changes, which makes it look like the fans are more panicked about ratings than they are.

I thought the only reason Punk is the WWE champion is because the Rock wants the title? Thats what the report said last month.

[bigdog40]

Originally Posted by SerapisLiber

Yeah, they value dollar signs over ratings. Sure, they'd love it if ratings were higher, but as long as profits are around the same or even higher, they see no need to change.

The WWE makes far too much money and their product has more than enough distrubition that it doesn't really that much about the ratings as they did back during the monday night war. Before the monday night war, nobody cared what the ratings were and what they met.