Raw Rating back to normal

[Dangerous A]

This week's edition of Raw did a 3.6 cable rating, with a 5.3 share.  The show did hours of 3.5 and 3.6.  That is down from last week's 4.5, but is to be expected given the nature of last week's show.

 

 

From PWTorch forums via Scherer.

 

 

Guess things are back to normal as there was literally no carry over from the Eddie tribute show.

[CanadianChris]

Not surprising. Last week was probably just fans who've been turned off by the product recently who just wanted to watch some decent wrestling and remember Eddy. I almost didn't watch this week, and I probably won't next week.

[razazteca]

Reasons why it went down:

 

1. Football

2. It was taped

3. None of the champions draw

[Guest Leelee]

4. People were traveling for Thanksgiving.

 

All the people I know were. I guess the rest of you live in Podunk, and only party until 9pm.

[Guest The Mustang]

Holidays usually get in the way of any TV show as people are on vacation and the shows timing isn't exactly prime for a good rating over vacations and such, once thanksgiving is over Raw's ratings will be consistent until about Christmas..

[Dangerous A]

Holidays usually get in the way of any TV show as people are on vacation and the shows timing isn't exactly prime for a good rating over vacations and such, once thanksgiving is over Raw's ratings will be consistent until about Christmas..

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The thing is, the rating for Raw is consistent with 3.4-3.7 since the move to USA. They've only drawn big ratings for Homecoming and Eddie's tribute show. They basically have roughly 3.1-3.7 ratings worth of people who will tune in no matter what. The thing is, there is a full ratings point or more worth of people who will tune in if they are given a reason to (Eddie, star driven Homecoming show) but WWE isn't capitalizing on or drawing anything beyond 3.4-3.7, which is their par for the course.

[razazteca]

BOLD PRIDICTION: The ratings probably won't hit 4.0 until Feb sweeps.

[Dangerous A]

It'll probrably hit that in Feb because the WM hype usually is a draw. By Jan. they may see a little more improvement as well since MNF will be over.

[RavishingRickRudo]

It's hard to determine where the WWE rating _should_ be.

 

The average WWE rating is 3.88. But that's not really indicative of what they've actually been getting (the reality).

 

Three (3) 3.6

 

Three (3) 4.0+ (4.0, 4.4, 4.5)

 

One (1) 3.4

 

One (1) 3.9

 

You can look at it like they _should_ be getting over 4.0 because about a third of the time they get above 4.0. Or you can look at it like they should be getting 3.6 because a third of a time they're getting 3.6. The 4.0's have been around extraordinary circumstances, so I don't think that's really what they'd regularly get. I think a range of +/- 0.3 in this day and age around a 3.6 rating is the most realistic. WWEs ratings have been nothing but sporadic, which is why the range is so huge. In a few months, that will probably go down as ratings stabilize.

[Mole]

Reasons why it went down:

 

1. Football

2. It was taped

3. None of the champions draw

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It went down because the product sucks. Simple as that.

[razazteca]

It's because of the holiday season!!!

[The Robfather]

I blame Vince.

[JustJoe2k5]

Not surprising.  Last week was probably just fans who've been turned off by the product recently who just wanted to watch some decent wrestling and remember Eddy.  I almost didn't watch this week, and I probably won't next week.

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I doubt you can blame the surge in ratings on fans wanting decent wrestling. People were just interested in Eddie Guerrero's death, it got more press than anything in wrestling the past few years so that probably drew in a crowd.

[snuffbox]

It was trick or treat stragglers...

[Fökai]

Okay, guys, Fishy was banned a week ago - there's no need to run the "joke" into the ground.

[Spaceman Spiff]

there's no need to run the "joke" into the ground.

How long have you been on this board? That's our unofficial motto.

[syxx2001]

Reasons why it went down:

 

1. Football

2. It was taped

3. None of the champions draw

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It went down because the product sucks. Simple as that.

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Co-sign. The product sucks, why make excuses? And who travels on Monday for Thanksgiving? I thought everybody started moving Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning at the latest.