RAW rating hits all-time low on USA network

[Downhome 0]

True, but after a while it gets old.

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Oh of course, but I don't think we've quite reached that point here yet.

[razazteca 0]

So did Spike tv's ratings go up this week for Unleashed TUF?

[Guest Leelee]

Jobber, probably.

 

Because the kids in Fishyswa's area didn't start trick or treating yet.

[Guest Fishyswa]

Can a mod get rid of worthless posts like Downhomes gem there?

 

"As for holidays that most people participate in, Halloween past 9:00 on a weekday night is not one of them. Kids have school in the morning; parents have work."

 

Work at 9, school 9:30, older kids stay out until 2 regardless. If you couldn't be out past 9 on Monday you were in the minority. Most trick or treaters don't come out until dinner's over, and they sure as hell don't go out for an hour.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Steelers were playing monday night.

 

Steelers = ratings

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I Watched MNF while I tivo-ed RAW and Prison Break, and then after the game I fast forwarded through RAW missing all the commercials which actually made the show a wee bit better.

[Guest HeadDropMark]

Don't let logic and the realities of real life get in the way of smarks engaging in WWE bashing.

 

IT WAS FUCKING HALLOWEEN.

 

Sorry but around here, when it's halloween, everyone with a life is either at a club, party, or out on the streets. This "oh it ends at 8" and "most parties were on the weekend" shit doesn't fly. 90% of Halloween parties were on Monday. Curfew around here is 10 and isn't even enforced until 11:00. If you were sitting home watching TV monday between the hours 0f 7-11, you were in the minority.

 

But go ahead and tell me I live in bizarro world, and how this rating is a clear sign that the WWE is dying, and how next weeks 3.6+ is just the result of people looking for a TNA replay. Sometimes the air is just ripe with crack smoke in this forum....

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[The Ghost of bps21 0]

TNA's replay rating went up this week BTW...so the party excuse should be thrown out.

 

Unless everyone parties like pussies and is home and sober by 12.

[Fökai 0]

Here's a good excuse for the show's rating:

 

It fucking sucked.

 

There.

[Guest Joejigatame]

TNA's replay rating went up this week BTW...so the party excuse should be thrown out.

 

Unless everyone parties like pussies and is home and sober by 12.

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Yes, from a 0.5 to a 0.6! What a HUGE difference.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

20% increase.

[pochorenella 0]

So if the ratings went from a 0.1 to a 0.2 would people be saying "wow, a 100% increase, great!!" Seems a bit misleading to me for such low number.

 

It's already discussed on the TNA forum but the 0.1 increase it's probably the people who didn't catch the original airing since saturday's show dropped 0.1 from the week before.

[Enigma 0]

I live in Athens, GA (aka a college town) and every Halloween party I knew of took place on either Friday or Saturday.

 

Anybody that had a Halloween party on Monday must not have a job or a class to attend on Tuesday.

[Guest New Jake]

Why can't we just blame the product?

[snuffbox 0]

Because the product is fine...Halloween is the problem.

 

Next weeks problem - Lingering effects of the Halloween hangover.

[Guest New Jake]

NO THE PRODUCT IS NOT FINE!!!

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Regardless of what really caused the drop in ratings we all have seen and heard about Vince's reaction to low ratings. How often does he take logic into effect when the ratings dip? Someone will be made the scapegoat for the ratings dip and be shipped off to Heat for awhile.

[razazteca 0]

It was obviously Jonathan Coachman's fault! So Vince will get back at Coach by humiliating him by forcing him to do karaoke of Tom Jones songs.

[Gary Floyd 0]

It was obviously Jonathan Coachman's fault!  So Vince will get back at Coach by humiliating him by forcing him to do karaoke of Tom Jones songs.

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I'd actually like to see that for some reason.

[World's Worst Man 0]

From Meltzer's Friday update

 

More excuses for Raw's rating on Monday after the "it's Halloween" was blown away by the fact football, UFC and most everything else on TV was up Monday night this week but Raw are: 1) The price of gas; 2) Fans were waiting to see a.m. Raw over the weekend; 3) The rating would have been 3.0 if Jim Ross was still there; 4) The liberal media

 

Pretty funny.

[geniusMoment 0]

That really makes fish look like a complete moron. Apparantly the only group partying Monday night was the raw demo, which, by the way, is now on average over 30.

[2GOLD 0]

I like the gas and the liberal media excuses. Apparently the WWE PR department is ran by Master Shake.

[BruiserKC 0]

There's no one trickortreating on the East coast at 9pm.

 

They're all done before 8 hits.

 

Remember...it's dark now at 5:30 EST...and no one's handing out candy at 9 that has to be at work at 7 the next morning.

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Not to mention in some parts of the country...like here in Iowa...we actually take the kids out the night before...Beggar's Night was Sunday.

 

As for me, I was probably flipping between Monday Night Football and Cheap Seats re-runs.

[Guest Brian]

Whoa, they said the ratings would have been worse if Jim Ross was there?

[World's Worst Man 0]

Whoa, they said the ratings would have been worse if Jim Ross was there?

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The thing I posted was just a spoof I believe.

 

I'm waiting for the people who were spinning the low ratings' news to address the point about UFC and football ratings being up on Monday night.

[Downhome 0]

That really makes fish look like a complete moron.  Apparantly the only group partying Monday night was the raw demo, which, by the way, is now on average over 30.

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Just that?

[MillenniumMan831 0]

From Meltzer's Friday update

 

More excuses for Raw's rating on Monday after the "it's Halloween" was blown away by the fact football, UFC and most everything else on TV was up Monday night this week but Raw are: 1) The price of gas; 2) Fans were waiting to see a.m. Raw over the weekend; 3) The rating would have been 3.0 if Jim Ross was still there; 4) The liberal media

 

Pretty funny.

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A.M. RAW BABY!!! Of course I'm at work Saturday mornings and can't watch it. But if I could, I would. My intention to watch should count in the ratings.

 

. . . Ok, I probably wouldn't watch it but maybe the remote would get stuck on USA.

[Guest *KNK*]

I love how Fish hasn't defended himself since his idiotic claim was completely debunked by factal evidence that Halloween had nothing to do with Raw's ratings.

[naiwf 0]

I love how Fish hasn't defended himself since his idiotic claim was completely debunked by factal evidence that Halloween had nothing to do with Raw's ratings.

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C'mon, when you argue simply for the sake of arguing you don't let little things like facts get in your way. I'm still curious as to what part of NY has an enforced 10 PM curfew, yet still had people trick or treating at 11:30, but he casually sidestepped that argument too. Only an idiot would say that Halloween was a big enough non holiday to impact TV ratings, so there you go.

[Guest Leelee]

I guess the excuse next week is that everyone was studying up on who to vote for on Election Day.

[2GOLD 0]

I guess the excuse next week is that everyone was studying up on who to vote for on Election Day.

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Thanksgiving shopping. Everyone rushed out to buy Cranberry sauce and bread crumbs before the stores ran out.