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**The Official Raw Ratings Thread** (Discuss Ratings In Here)

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
For a list of the weekly rating dating back to January, please click here:

http://www.gerweck.net/tv-ratings/2012-tv-ratings/

RATINGS BREAKDOWN FOR THIS WEEKS RAW 4/9

Raw on 4/9 did a 3.10 rating and 4.29 million viewers. The show was third for the night on cable. The show did a 2.4 in Males 12-17, 2.7 in Males 18-49, 1.0 in Girls 12-17 and 1.1 in Women 18-49 with a 69.3% male skew. It was down 21% from the 5.46 million viewers of the week after Mania show last year, and last year there was no bombshell along the lines of the Brock Lesnar return on the night after Mania show.

In the segment-by-segment, Brodus Clay & Santino Marella vs. Dolph Ziggler & Jack Swagger lost 99,000 viewers.

Backstage with Laurinaitis with Miz an Cena, Marella looking for the Three Stooges and R-Truth vs. Cody Rhodes gained 255,000 viewers.

Lord Tensai vs. Yoshi Tatsu lost 415,000 viewers.

The mic work between C.M. Punk and Chris Jericho in the top of the hour segment gained 379,000 viewers to a 3.19.

Punk vs. Henry and the post-match with Jericho pouring beer all over Punk, as well as the quick Del Rio vs. Ryder match lost 169,000 viewers.

The Three Stooges in-ring segment lost 240,000 viewers and was the low point of the show at 2.90.

The Brock Lesnar interview gained 423,000 viewers.

And the Cena vs. Otunga match with Lesnar run-in gained 301,000 viewers, which is a very weak overrun number, finishing at 3.42.
 
#7,263 ·
And why are people saying its not PG that is causing these ratings, this is WRESTLING. Wrestling is fighting its not a friendly kids show. Times have changed this isnt the 80s and early 90s when that worked. The world has changed and the world of TV is changing to more edgy material.
You see stuff like UFC where the buildup and the fighting is real and people love to watch it, its not dedicated to 3rd graders. Most of the audience is dead during the show because half the audience is parents!
 
#7,268 ·
WWE's got 99 problems, being PG isn't one of them

back in 1997 and 1998, during the peak of the attitude era and their most controversial period with the media, the first hour of RAW was PG and it was called "Monday Night RAW" , the second hour was TV-MA and it was called "The Warzone" , both together were called "RAW is WAR"

the reason the product is this shitty and bland is because they are too pussy to make an enjoyable wrestling show for everyone, the fact is they are too busy with looking good in the media and the mainstream, they forget to improve the quality of the show

Vince is the media's bitch, here's an example, now I understand and applaud supporting the fight against breast cancer, but can I just ask, what difference would it make to change the colors of the sets to pink, would cancer magically disappear by having John Cena wear pink? would people be cured just because the rope is pink ?

my issue isn't with the pink ropes or the sets, it's the fact that Vince would bend over just to look noble in the public's eye, and the sad thing is he's trying too hard , not just the breast cancer, but with the whole package, GLAAD, the B A STAR , etc.. I mean a show about people punching each other for 3 hours is gonna protest against bullying ? come on now


Vince is too scared to pull something edgy because he's afraid it would give him bad buzz, when the fact that that's not true, you could be edgy AND get some positive buzz, look at last year's WWE with CM Punk after the infamous shoot promo, it got a lot of people talking and pay attention to the show and it was cutting edge


you could be edgy without having a guy rape a dead corpse at a funeral home or bleeding for no reason whatsoever other than the fuck of it, as a fan I don't need pointless blood, just give me shit like CM Punk's rise last year for example , that's all i'm asking , is it too much ?
 
#7,264 ·
Source: TV By The Numbers, F4WOnline via WrestlingInc.com

Monday's Raw broadcast drew a 2.48 cable rating, the program's worst rating for a non-holiday episode since October 27, 1997 (which drew a 2.3). This is below the rating for the Oct. 1, 2012 show, which garnered a 2.54 in comparison.
As reported earlier, the three-hour program averaged 3.55 million viewers, beating a year-low of 3.50 million viewers on Oct. 1. Raw drew 3.58 million viewers in the first hour, 3.65 million in the second hour, and 3.43 million in third and final hour.

Viewership for the third hour was a year-low, below 3.47 million viewers on Oct. 1. It was the tenth consecutive week where third hour viewership was below viewership in the second hour.


http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2012/1023/557382/ryback/

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#7,265 ·
they fucking deserve that rating, I'm not a stuck-in-the-past hater, but if you're gonna shove Vickie Guerrero down my throat for the 1000000th time after finally getting rid of the train-wreck that is Aj, then sorry, i'm not on your team

and as if there isn't enough imaginary head positions, they add one more , so basically now you have a chairman, a COO, a CEO, the GM, the Interim GM, the Smackdown consultant, the commissioner, and now the head supervisor fpalm

oh wait there's more, now we got yet another love soap opera storyline with Cena and Aj, because the Eve/Cena/Ryder was a total blast


hmmm .. a face wrestler meets a helpless diva that's counting on him, oh gee, I wonder how would that turn out, I mean it's not like she'll double cross him and turn heel in the process, because they NEVER did that before right ? :rolleyes:


i hope their ratings plummet until they get their heads out of their asses, I still can't get over the fact that the tub of lard Vickie is given yet another big role , until then to hell with them and their boring long-ass 3 hours
 
#7,277 ·
Nexus is like the last good storyline, WWE stoped caring about Storylines when they have the guest stars who didnt care about WWE just promoting their thing. Triple H breaking into Ortons house is something cool that happends.

WWE is at its best from Royal Rumble untill night after WM. They actually care.
 
#7,280 ·
Damn this week's show got a 2.5 rating again? It could've been worse with all the competition that was going on. Seriously, the writing has been crap and Vince continues to approve it. It's a shame and I wonder if they can ever get in the 3.0's again.
 
#7,286 ·
McMahon is going to do his best to deflect the truth that he is the problem... sorry, but you are no longer the genius booker you've tried to portray yourself as. You might still be a good promoter, but creatively you are washed up. Give it up and let the new generation save this joke of a company... we beg you.
 
#7,301 · (Edited)
It doesn't help, that the WWE has a show on almost everyday of the week.
Monday- Raw
Wednesday- Main Event
Friday- Smackdown
Saturday- Morning Slam
Sunday morning & night- A.M. Raw & whatever PPV that day.

Can't forget the replays of Raw & Smackdown on the MUN2 & Universal networks.
Mun2: Raw- Wednesday night, Sunday morning & afternoon
Smackdown- Saturday night
Universal: both back to back on Saturday nights.

Then they have the Raw recap on every show.
Miss Raw live, don't worry just get caught up on the 10 recaps/replays durning the week.

Then theres the internet.

The more I list, the more I think the ratings of 1 show is less important.
What is the total of everything combined?
Are the same people watching every show?
Or are there different people tuning when they can?

2.5 is bad, but there is different ways & times to see WWE programming.
If it actually does entertain you. :)
 
#7,302 · (Edited)
all kids love violence and we all watched that stuff when we were little whether or it was attitude era wwf or violent movies. i went to catholic school when i was little in the 80's and would watch rambo and predator at night on hbo and lots of kids at school did too cuz we'd talk about it the next day. all this stupid coddling of kids is pointless. everyone is afraid that their kid is secretly fucked in the head and if they are exposed to violence that it'll unlock that part of their brain and they'll act out somehow. if they are that fucked, then it'll happen at some point and there's nothing you can do about it. if they are normal like 99.9% of the population then they can watch anything or play any video game and nothing will come of it other than they get entertained. lawyers and fucking uptight parents are partly responsible for all this pussyfication of the usa and we the adults get punished for it and have our wwe's balls cut off cuz of it. other countries like japan aren't into this crap. you know some of their cartoons that are rated about pg level are considered pg 13 in the usa. yet, their population is so condensed that they all live on top of each other practically and yet crime and rape is much lower compared to usa. funny considering their kids are allowed to watch more violent mature stuff shouldn't it be the other way around? usa has become a huge vagina.
 
#7,303 ·
all kids love violence and we all watched that stuff when we were little whether or was ae wwe or violent movies. i went to catholic school in the 80's and would watch rambo and predator at night on hbo and lots of kids at school did too cuz we'd talk about it the next day. all this stupid coddling of kids is pointless. everyone is afraid that their kid is secretly fucked in the head and if they are exposed to violence that it'll unlock that part of their brain and they'll act out somehow. if they are that fucked, then it'll happen at some point and there's nothing you can do about it. if they are normal like 99.9% of the population then they can watch anything or play any video game and nothing will come of it other than they get entertained. lawyers and fucking uptight parents are partly responsible for all this pussyfication of the usa and we the adults get punished for it and have our wwe's balls cut off cuz of it.
AMEN
alot of us were kids watching attitude era and it was awesome

the PC controlled world we live in is sickening

most of us who grew up in the 80s/90s watched edgy wrestling, late night mature movies with swearing and stuff

the cuddling and PC world if just to much, whats next, fining someone for using a swear word
 
#7,305 ·
i also forgot to say any lifelong wwe fans here feel happy the ratings are bad? i do. somehow it gives me hope that things will change cuz if the ratings go down then i assume the usa network gets less money from advertising revenue and then starts hassling vince to improve his product. at least i hope it works like that. otherwise, it'll stay crap forever.
 
#7,308 ·
well not really, cena has been injured during the ratings slump, and ryback is only just starting to get a push

Punk has to take the blame here, remember he is the champion, he is meant to be the draw.
Sorry that does not fly with whoever the Champion is Punk, Orton Sheamus etc don't get the blame. John Cena is the only star in WWE and has the biggest responsibility of getting people to tune in. So when he is on the show and the ratings go up he gets pretty much all the credit when they go down he gets all the blame. He is the only thing close to a draw in the whole company right now.
 
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