Raw Ratings Not So Bad

While the ratings for Raw appear to be low, it's not really as bad it seems. Anywhere from 8 to 10% of Raw viewers DVR the show on a weekly basis. 410,000 viewers watched last week's edition of Raw on DVR, or about 8%, meaning the actual rating was closer to a 3.45. The final rating was a 3.18. Besides The Hills on MTV, WWE Raw is the most DVRed cable show in the country. So if you take DVR viewing into account, the rating for Raw would really be about 0.3 points higher. However, the same can't be said for SmackDown, ECW and TNA Impact as 3.3% (or less) of the viewers of those shows watch it on DVR.

Thanks for the statistics. Its not like RAW doesn't have other shows to go up against.

Well RAW was up against the NBA on TNT b/c most people don'tcare for RAW!

Despite the ratings not being what they used to in the Monday Night Wars era, but any rating over 3 is still a pretty decent program.

babaganoosh wrote:

Despite the ratings not being what they used to in the Monday Night Wars era, but any rating over 3 is still a pretty decent program.

Good point. I can think of some wrestling programs that wish they could get over the 3 mark.

Well just so you all know:

WCW had 3 hrs. of Monday Nitro sinec 1998, but the ratings didn't help much and so, they cut back to 2 hrs., but instead of having 9-11 EST, they went back to doing 8-10 EST.

Just thought I throw that in.