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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.
 
#4,509 ·
Not actually a bad rating, viewership a little low, but still staying above the 3.0 rating mark and 4 million viewers. The ad-breakdown can't have helped:

Q1 - 0 minutes
Q2 - 5 minutes
Q3 - 6 minutes
Q4 - 3 minutes
Q5 - 4 minutes
Q6 - 5 minutes
Q7 - 6 minutes
Q8 - 4 minutes

Q1 will probably end up the highest rated segment with Q2 and Q3 dragging hour 1 down a lot, before a nice gain for hour 2.
 
#4,512 ·
I need confirmation but it seems RAW this week got 3.2 :lmao

It's official, they can do whatever they want.
 
#4,513 · (Edited)
As long as John Cena is on the show they will draw. It doesn't matter that everything else is garbage and that AJ/Punk/Bryan are currently making the worst feud in wrestling HISTORY - John Cena is THAT big of a star and THAT popular that people will always watch while he's there. The one time he wasn't on the show this year the ratings plummeted to worrying levels and that says it all. Unfortunately Cena is the only megastar in the land right now and if he were to get injured they would be screwed to hell. They need Orton back in the main-event because he's the #2 guy and the only other active guy who can carry the brand.
 
#4,515 · (Edited)
From the Observer:


If there was a key to the Raw rating, the tease that A.J. was going to marry the person she left the ring with worked. The gain of 711,000 viewers for the overrun is normal level (a good 3.61 overrun), but this was done without John Cena in the segment, and with C.M. Punk and Daniel Bryan, who have never moved ratings big. Plus, there was gigantic increase in teenage boys watching for the overrun only that wasn’t there for the rest of the show. That demo hovered between a 2.7 and 3.2 rating the entire show, but hit a 4.4 for the overrun. Overrun growth was 3.2 to 4.4 in that demo, 2.5 to 3.1 in Males 18-49, 1.2 to 1.4 in Girls 12-17 and stayed at 1.1 with Women 18-49. It should be noted that it’s the marrying gimmick and not the personalities since A.J., Punk nor Bryan spiked ratings in that demo in their interview segment this week or any other week in this storyline. Whether it’s a sign of things to come, or something meaningless where the tease of a marriage sparked interest that isn’t going to sustain will be determined in the future.

As far as comparisons to the week before, Boys 12-17 did a 3.1 (up 3%, all due to the overrun), Males 18-49 did a 2.5 (same as last week), Girls 12-17 did a 1.1 (down 8%) and Women 18-49 did a 1.1 (down 15%). That’s also notable because the wedding teases usually inflates the female audience more than the men, plus Home Run Derby figured to hurt among men, not women. The male skew was 67.4%. Raw was in 5th place for the night on cable.

For quarters, the long opening monologue with A.J., Punk and Bryan along with Sheamus vs. Jack Swagger lost 74,000 viewers. Christian & Tyson Kidd vs. Tensai & Dolph Ziggler and the Lawler vs. Cole angle building their match lost 416,000 viewers. Brodus Clay vs. Drew McIntyre plus Stephanie McMahon talking about the angle where she and HHH were to renew their vows gained 102,000 viewers. John Cena & Kane vs. Big Show & Chris Jericho gained 66,000 viewers, which is not good for that time period. What happened is they did about a 280,000 gain at 10 p.m., which is lower than usual, but then lost those viewers when the match went longer and went through the second break. Heath Slater vs. Sin Cara and his angle with Bob Backlund lots 21,000 viewers. Lawler vs. Cole and the Hornswoggle as General Manager reveal also lost 21,000 viewers.

Quote:
A note regarding updated universes of the various cable stations. With people very slowly switching away from satellite and dishes, there has been a small drop, not enough yet to really matter but it is a worrisome trend.

As of the end of June, the USA Network was available in 99,301,000 homes, which is 86.6% of the homes in the U.S. They peaked at nearly 101 million a year ago. Almost every station has shown similar declines. Spike TV is in 98,623,000 homes after peaking at more than 100 million. We don’t have a number for FX, but it’s in the 98.5 million range. Syfy is in 98,006,000 homes. MTV 2 is in about 75 million homes and Fuel is in 36.2 million homes.


Analyses of the breakdowns are a little questionable. Great to see that Bryan/Punk/AJ are sustaining and gaining viewers.
 
#4,516 ·
Get Steph and Hunter back on the show for another marriage. That should do the trick lol since their video package did well. Great overrun number and I agree that the tease of a marriage was what drew people in. I think this is the first time a Punk segment (bar that one Johnny promo) has gained such a big number without Cena/Vince/HHH there to help. This time it was AJ who helped!! Lol. It's strange that teen boys tuned in for a potential wedding rather than females though who actually dropped. You would expect those numbers to be the other way round which is quite surprising to me. Is that a statement upon the teenage boys of America lol? I don't know but if it is it surely can't be a good one, haha! The 10pm number is rather shitty too considering who was in it. All in all a rather bad breakdown. They just kept losing and losing viewers until the end pretty much. Back to normal I guess.
 
#4,520 ·
There's an error in the breakdown provided somewhere, so I've balanced it out, so below hour 1 is slightly higher than what it should be with hour 2 slightly lower than what it should be:

Quarter Hours - July 9th, 2012
Q1 - 3.33 rating / 4.60 million
Q2 - 3.28 rating / 4.53 million
Q3 - 2.98 rating / 4.11 million
Q4 - 3.05 rating / 4.21 million
Q5 - 3.20 rating / 4.49 million
Q6 - 3.09 rating / 4.34 million
Q7 - 3.08 rating / 4.32 million
Q8 - 3.06 rating / 4.30 million
Overrun - 3.61 rating / 5.01 million

So, using 10 percent as per usual:

Q1 - 4.60 million (0.00 gain) <-- no commercials
Q2 - 4.75 million (0.23 gain) <-- 5 minutes stripped out; Opening Segment end, Sheamus vs Jack Swagger, Santino and Ryder backstage
Q3 - 4.38 million (0.27 gain) <-- 6 minutes stripped out; Christian/Kidd vs Ziggler/Tensai, Cole and King arguing, Brodus Clay vs Drew McIntyre
Q4 - 4.32 million (0.11 gain) <-- 3 minutes stripped out; Brodus Clay vs Drew McIntyre, Santino, Jericho and Show backstage, Raw 1000th moment, Cena promo
Q5 - 4.66 million (0.16 gain) <-- 4 minutes stripped out; Cena/Kane vs JeriShow
Q6 - 4.56 million (0.22 gain) <-- 5 minutes stripped out; Cena/Kane vs JeriShow, Opening Segment recap, Punk and Eve backstage, Khali and Santino backstage
Q7 - 4.61 million (0.29 gain) <-- 6 minutes stripped out; Sin Cara vs Heath Slater, Bob Backlund return, Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler Poll result
Q8 - 4.46 million (0.16 gain) <-- 4 minutes stripped out; Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler, 'No Holds Barred' promo, Punk and AJ vs Bryan and Eve start
Overrun - 5.01 million (0.00 gain) <-- no commercials (obviously)
 
#4,526 ·
Something's wrong with the Breakdown.

Quarter Hours - July 9th, 2012
Q1 - 3.33 rating / 4.60 million
Q2 - 3.28 rating / 4.53 million
Q3 - 2.98 rating / 4.11 million
Q4 - 3.05 rating / 4.21 million
Q5 - 3.20 rating / 4.49 million
Q6 - 3.09 rating / 4.34 million
Q7 - 3.08 rating / 4.32 million
Q8 - 3.06 rating / 4.30 million
Overrun - 3.61 rating / 5.01 million
At what time exactly did the main event match start? and how long was the overrun? Bit confused here.
 
#4,521 ·
Damn what happened to that TV rtaing machine Big Show? And apparently no one cares about Cena in MITB. And wait the worst storyline in wrestling history doing good #s in its 2 segments? I am so confused.

Looks like its back to normal like Starbuck said People tune it for the opening seg, the 10PM seg and the last seg. Still above 4 million though.
 
#4,522 ·
A match starring John Cena, Kane, Jericho and the Big show gains only that little. Looks like no one gives a shit about the Raw MITB match lols.

The Jerry Lawler V Cole match is the lowest rated segment on the show, Good.

People are clearly most invested in the Punk/Bryan/AJ angle, its most likely closing MITB as this is the angle WWE are putting their effort into.
 
#4,524 ·
:lmao at the pathetic breakdown explanations. Jericho/Cena gains 500,000+ viewers two weeks ago. Last week the main event with Cena, Punk, and Bryan did 600,000+ viewers. And hell three weeks ago in Laurinitis' final match the overrun did 500,000+ viewers as well. But Punk/Bryan/AJ gain 700,000 viewers and that is all of a sudden "normal" level, even when it hasn't for at least a month. lol.
 
#4,525 ·
I'd say that a normal overrun number has become 500,000 after this past year or so all things considered. Anything less than 500,000 is a disappointment. 500,000 - 600,000 is normal/average. 600,000 - 750,000 is above average and really good. 750,000 - 900,000 is an excellent number and 900,000 to 1 million+ is of course insane.
 
#4,538 ·
Holy shit at the 10 PM gain. Wow. With that star power in it, especially Cena, you expect better.

I guess Raw starring AJ will continue with the gains. I'm not a fan but whatever.
 
#4,539 · (Edited)
Glad to see the big ratings spike for the AJ/Punk/Bryan overrun segment. This storyline is not only awesome (even if the haters do what they do and hate on it), but it also is helping my favorite Diva and my 2 current favorite fulltime male wrestlers over even more.

These type of good ratings will hopefully force WWE to make sure to keep all three on TV in prominent roles even after this storyline ends.

Also, maybe WWE will see that other people besides Cena can close a show on a consistent basis now all if that happens we all win.
 
#4,563 ·
"Plus, there was gigantic increase in teenage boys watching for the overrun only that wasn’t there for the rest of the show. That demo hovered between a 2.7 and 3.2 rating the entire show, but hit a 4.4 for the overrun. Overrun growth was 3.2 to 4.4 in that demo, 2.5 to 3.1 in Males 18-49, 1.2 to 1.4 in Girls 12-17 and stayed at 1.1 with Women 18-49."
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#4,543 ·
I'm a little surprised by the numbers, especially Cena/Kane/Show/Jericho, but it's not too far fetched to see people are invested in the AJ/Bryan/Punk angle. If nothing other than the fact it's the only week to week storyline going on. It sure as hell beats having constant one on one matches with dirty finishes to protect both participants before the PPV.
 
#4,544 ·
It's not AJ. It's the storyline, it's obviously working. All three play their role well in the story, therefore all three deserve credit.

It can't be expressed enough, storylines draw. Why do you think Rock/Cena was such a fail in terms of ratings? The angle was nothing new, boring, and all in all complete shit. AJ/Punk/Bryan outdrew Rock/Cena in every segment they had during the RTWM.
 
#4,552 ·
Well, of course AJ drew in the teenage male viewers. She looks like she's 17 (one of the major reasons I think she's cute, but that's for a different topic).

I'm also glad that the overrun did such good numbers, because maybe WWE would consider stretching this feud out for ~ ONE MORE MATCH ! ~
 
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