[D.M.N.]

January 30th, 2012 - Breakdown
Q1 + Q2 - 3.90 rating / 5.65 million
Q3 - 3.43 rating / 5.07 million
Q4 - 3.32 rating / 4.90 million
Q5 - 3.54 rating / 5.12 million
Q6 - 3.34 rating / 4.89 million
Q7 - 3.12 rating / 4.56 million
Q8 - 3.34 rating / 4.89 million
Overrun - 3.85 rating / 5.64 million

If you bundled Q8 and the overrun together, like they have done in the past, you get about an average of 3.59 rating / 5.26 million, a gain of 700k on Q7.

Okay breakdown, as noted by Rock316AE in the breakdown a day ago, the RAW after Royal Rumble last year had an overrun above a 4.0 rating so the overrun rating may be slightly disappointing. Saying that (unlike last year!), they left RAW on a high with a big return which should keep viewers until next week and the numbers should well be similar for next week.

[A-C-P]

Originally Posted by Rock316AE

It was in the top of the hour segment, you can't lose viewers no matter what, If everything lost and they only gain 200k it's not a good thing, on the contrary...

1. Conveient how you skipped over the part of my post where I said that top of the hour segment isn't the automatic "huge" viewer gain that it used to be.

2. Lets totally ignore the fact that Orton/Ziggler & Brodus/Reks lost nearly 750,000 viewers combined (and In Orton's "return" match to Raw) and just say it was a weak gain for Punk b/c he couldn't bring enough of those lost viewers back.

Trolling at its finest right here, you do your best to hide it though I will give you kudos for that.

[Warrior]

3.5 not a bad rating. This rating is more worthy of discussion since it is a big difference than the 2.9-3.0 that was the average RAW for the past few months.

[Rock316AE]

I can't say that this is terrible but a big disappointment, HHH segment, day after the Rumble, with a huge 18 minutes overrun should do at least a 4.0, last year the Rumble RAW concept was a big success, I guess the big draw was and still is, the Rumble winner, that's why I said in the results that they should give Sheamus his own segment, maybe in the top of the hour. Next week Taker is not going to be there, so it's HHH and the Taker hype.

Originally Posted by A-C-P

1. Conveient how you skipped over the part of my post where I said that top of the hour segment isn't the automatic "huge" viewer gain that it used to be.

2. Lets totally ignore the fact that Orton/Ziggler & Brodus/Reks lost nearly 750,000 viewers combined (and In Orton's "return" match to Raw) and just say it was a weak gain for Punk b/c he couldn't bring enough of those lost viewers back.

Trolling at its finest right here, you do your best to hide it though I will give you kudos for that.

Not true at all, the top of the hour is still the second biggest segment, unless you want to change the entire concept. I'm not ignoring the fact that the matches on random segments were losing, you're just proving Meltzer's point that it was a weak gain after they lost so many viewers already.

Originally Posted by WrestlingforEverII

Plus it was a repeat. Hell, No one wants to see Rock on a video screen at all. Whether its via satellite, taped or a video package like that. They want Rock live and in person. Plus, that video was mostly about his outside life. I can see why that turns people off on a wrestling program.

Repeat and the content of the video package is irrelevant because it's always losing, no matter what. If you're talking about "live"(taped) Rock promos from last year? not true, he gained huge and was the highest rated segment even from his house.

[WrestlingforEverII]

Originally Posted by LarryCoon

Lol Rock's video losing 329k viewers. Can't blame Rock for that one. His videos has been shit

Plus it was a repeat. Hell, No one wants to see Rock on a video screen at all. Whether its via satellite, taped or a video package like that. They want Rock live and in person. Plus, that video was mostly about his outside life. I can see why that turns people off on a wrestling program.

[TheWFEffect]

Originally Posted by JingieBY

A bump with over 600 000 people compared to last weeks edition. Truly excelent number.

[Verdict123]

Originally Posted by Rock316AE

I can't say that this is terrible but a big disappointment, HHH segment, day after the Rumble, with a huge 18 minutes overrun should do at least a 4.0, last year the Rumble RAW concept was a big success, I guess the big draw was and still is, the Rumble winner, that's why I said in the results that they should give Sheamus his own segment, maybe in the top of the hour. Next week Taker is not going to be there, so it's HHH and the Taker hype.

Its both HHH + Taker's return thats a disappointment which i predicted beforehand. Opening seg was the highest rated as i said.

and BTW, both HHH and taker most likely wont be on next week's raw. They got plenty of time to build, they will take it slowly. Meltzer also said the same thing.

[Starbuck]

Interesting numbers lol. Obviously they opened big time with a high level of interest but I can't say I'm surprised that things followed the normal pattern of viewer gains and loses throughout the show as of late. Between the opening and 10pm slot they lost around 746,000 viewers with Punk/Bryan only being able to gain back 219,000 of those viewers. When you look at it that way, when you consider the fact that it's your 2 world champions and the 10pm time slot, it isn't good at all. On the plus side though, it did actually gain something. Then they lost a whole bunch of viewers until Cena/Kane which had a nice gain of 300k+. The end segment with HHH/Ace/Taker is good stuff considering it was promoted solely as 'Will HHH fire Johnny Ace?' and not the surprise return of the Undertaker lol.

In the end, they ended up with almost exactly the same amount of viewers that they started with which again reinforces the fact that people tune in at the start, leave and then only come back for the end. They aren't really even coming back for the 10pm slot anymore. Had they had something really hot to put at 10pm they would have experienced a huge gain of like 600k or more and then been able to build upon that for the end segment which would have gained it's 750k. The overall rating probably would have been like a 3.7 or 3.8 then. Hopefully it reaches the stage pretty soon where they have more than just one point of interest or drawing angle so they can stretch them across the different times. That's what happened with Rock/Cena/Miz and HHH/Taker/HBK last year. Both segments had gains of over 1million iirc and so the overall rating was like a 3.9 or whatever it was. One went on at the 10pm slot and one went on at the end.

That's my take on things anyways lol.

[Verdict123]

Surprise returns SHOULD gain viewers depending on the starpower, especially in the overrun, See: The Rock's Return feb 14 2011.

and the opening seg should be considered a disappointment imo, not even 4.0.

[Cycloneon]

IMO, the only reason the Rock's highlight package lost viewers was because it was shwon at the Royal Rumble, and by the time it aired on RAW it was all over Youtube.

But I'm surprised the divas match + aftermatch brawl gained viewers. Guess people know Kane/Cena was gonna be involved