9/17 Monday Night RAW Thread: Punk & Hey.. Dey Like Snoop & Dre..

[StatUS]

Cena keeping these ratings from looking

 

[K-Apps]

Raw on 9/17 did a 2.86 rating and 4.05 million viewers. The rating was in the same ballpark as the previous two weeks. The total viewer number was the lowest in months, even coming the day after a PPV. The difference was the football game with the Denver Broncos vs. Atlanta Falcons that did an 11.58 rating and 15.52 million viewers, way up from last week.

The most notable thing about the ratings is the highest rated segment of the show was the first quarter at 8 p.m., which did a 3.21. So they had a large audience there at the start. They lost them early, when the football game started. But they have now succeeded in getting their audience acclimated to 8 p.m., and also losing them because of the length of the show. The third hour, which should be the highest, has for the last two weeks been the lowest, with hours at 2.97, 2.90 and 2.73.

Raw was third for the night on cable. Raw did a 2.4 in teenage boys (down 8%), 2.4 in Males 18-49 (up 4%), 0.6 in Girls 12-17 (same as last week) and 1.0 in Women 18-49 (down 9%). Viewership was 69.1% male.

In the segment-by-segment, Rey Mysterio & Sin Cara vs. Primo & Epico lost 404,000 viewers when the football game started.

Prime Time Players attacking Mysterio & Sin Cara plus Eve Torres vs. Beth Phoenix lost 17,000 viewers.

Brodus Clay vs. Heath Slater lost 129,000 viewers.

At 9 p.m., when you expect the pick up, with Miz TV interviewing Booker T and Ryback, they gained 381,000 viewers.

Dolph Ziggler vs. Santino Marella and Wade Barrett vs. Justin Gabriel lost 153,000 viewers.

The segment with Jared Fogle offering Subway Sandwiches to everyone lost 478,000 viewers and fell to a 2.64 quarter. Hey, at least they got paid for it.

Daniel Bryan & Kane defending against Kofi Kingston & R-Truth gained 362,000 viewers. So mostly picking back up the people who tuned out for Jared.

All the post-match with Bryan & Kane with the hugging lost 169,000 viewers and that’s at the 10 p.m. hour, doing a 2.78 quarter. That’s disastrous at that time of the show, as usually that’s growth and then people tune out. That’s the second time they’ve done the big long drawn out hugging spot in a key time slot and both times it’s bombed.

Randy Orton vs. Tensai lost 150,000 viewers.

Zack Ryder vs. Damien Sandow lost 169,000 viewers and did a 2.56 quarter.

John Cena & Sheamus vs. C.M. Punk & Alberto Del Rio did the best growth quarter in a while, gaining 823,000 viewers to a 3.14 overrun.

 

[ecks12]

All the post-match with Bryan & Kane with the hugging lost 169,000 viewers and that’s at the 10 p.m. hour, doing a 2.78 quarter. That’s disastrous at that time of the show, as usually that’s growth and then people tune out. That’s the second time they’ve done the big long drawn out hugging spot in a key time slot and both times it’s bombed.

 

[R=G]

Bret Hart did an interview with The Sun in the U.K. regarding the Montreal show. “It was fitting, going full circle. I think it was important to do. Think it was more important than WWE or anyone realized.” Hart was originally asked to come to the show to be part of the presentation after Raw ended for the Pat Patterson Appreciation Night. That ended up being scrapped since it wasn’t the right time to do it. He said he was originally called late the week before, and it was just to be there for Patterson and there were no plans to do anything with him on the show. Hart told them that if he was going to Montreal, he wanted to be able to say something to the fans, and if not, he didn’t want to go. Then they agreed that he’d be able to say a few words. After he agreed to come, somebody in creative came up with the idea of having him be a major part of the show and use Bret Hart returning to Montreal as the television hook for the show. At that point, he was written into the first and last segment. “I don’t think they thought it would get the reaction that it did. I think they thought it wouldn’t be a big deal. As you can see, I had a better feel for how that audience was going to react. But I’m grateful to WWE for it. It was really satisfying.” It blows my mind that they were going to bring Hart to Montreal and he had to be the one to talk them into letting him appear on the live show. That speaks volumes about a lot of people’s creative instincts, as not that it was going to be a huge ratings draw or anything, it’s still a piece of history and a hook for a three hour show that had no other hook. He pushed that he’s proud of Cena and admires Punks’ abilities. He said regarding the Lawler situation, “It was a very dark moment. It had that eerie Owen Hart live television feel where you thought, `What do you do?” But in this case, I tip my hat to WWE and Michael Cole. They did a great job of handling the whole thing. I thought the professionalism was on at all levels. Hart said, “If anything, I welcomed the little bit I had with Cena and Punk at the end of the show. It was a welcome distraction from it all. It took my mind off Jerry. I was very concerned and devastated by the whole thing, but I had forgotten about it for a few minutes. Jerry was in my thoughts the whole time, but it was nice to turn it off and know that in doing so, all the right things were being done for him. I think we even knew when we went out there that his heartbeat had been restored and things were looking better. Things weren’t looking so dim.” Hart also talked about when he decked Vince McMahon backstage in the building in 1997. “WWE failed me on that day and buried the knife as far as they could. I think the little fisticuffs that happened afterwards with Vince as my finest hour.”
The cheering for Ziggler and booing of Orton was something talked about after the fact with the idea of possibly turning one or the other. It’s well known Orton badly wants to be back as a heel, as it’s a role he’s better at. But they believe they need him as a face right now because of the depth issue there. A mentality was turning both.
WWE has done a major push to remove video clips as noted last week with the mention of the Sabu clips being removed by You Tube (including, and I’m guessing this is You Tube and not WWE’s fault, taking them down from indie shows who had the rights to those clips).

 

[ecks12]

” It blows my mind that they were going to bring Hart to Montreal and he had to be the one to talk them into letting him appear on the live show. That speaks volumes about a lot of people’s creative instincts, as not that it was going to be a huge ratings draw or anything, it’s still a piece of history and a hook for a three hour show that had no other hook.

 

[Ohnoits]

Stephanie has no idea what the fukk she is doing. This is just a greater example of this, like booking their big reunion and anniversary shows in cities with no smarks, or booking face wins in heel hometowns so her faces can get booed in the entire fukking match, like she's punishing the fans for daring to like the other guy.

Shows what a moron she is...

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

R=G conveniently left out the part where Bret says he respects and admires Cena and Punk.

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[R=G]

2.83

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

R=G conveniently left out the part where Bret says he respects and admires Cena and Punk.

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typical

 

[ThatTruth777]

Stephanie has no idea what the fukk she is doing. This is just a greater example of this, like booking their big reunion and anniversary shows in cities with no smarks, or booking face wins in heel hometowns so her faces can get booed in the entire fukking match, like she's punishing the fans for daring to like the other guy.

Shows what a moron she is...

This... everytime I think of how shyt is fukked up or when some dumb crap go down.. I think had to be Stephanie.. not saying HHH wouldn't fukk up as bad but c'mon... I doubt HHH would be super bad at the head of the operations but I could be wrong depending on how much he can control his ego of course.

 

[OmegaK2099]

i dont know about a ziggler face turn id rather chance the miz going face