WWE Raw posts lowest ratings in modern era

[THE 101]

A combination of network season premieres and a strong NFL game led Raw to what will undoubtedly be the lowest rated episode in its history last night.

The Raw rating is not available, but the total audience was 2.35 million viewers. The previous modern-era low audience was 2.46 million viewers set on July 9. The September 26, 2016 Raw, which went up against the Clinton-Trump debate, also did 2.46 million viewers.

While excuses can be made, and those were the reason for the low number, there are season premieres every year and NFL big games every season. Last year's Raw during the same week did 2.91 million viewers, so that's a 19 percent year-to-year drop.

The show featured what will almost surely be the two lowest rated hours, hours two and three. The big drop was hour one to two, and it's hard to figure why because the hottest network show, Big Bang Theory, went against the first hour and the NFL game started about 13 minutes into the first hour.

The Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers game did 12.01 million viewers. Big Bang Theory did 12.92 million viewers.

Raw was 12th for the night on cable, although it still beat everything on cable other than news and NFL-related broadcasts on ESPN.

The new Observer will go into more detail about where the audience was lost, but the big drop from hour one-to-two was viewers over the age of 50, which is Raw's usual largest audience demo. It was unusual in that the third hour was actually slightly up from the second hour by 6,000 total viewers.

The three hours were:

• 8 p.m. 2.49 million viewers
• 9 p.m. 2.28 million viewers
• 10 p.m. 2.28 million viewers

 

[CBoz]

Good, maybe this will motivate them to make better story lines.

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Good, maybe this will motivate them to make better story lines.

Bag already secured - they have no motivation at all to improve.

The Fox execs who signed the cheque have to be shook as fukk looking at these numbers though.

 

[FBGPlank]

can't blame cena da goat for this, maybe you can tho. if he was on tv maybe ratings wouldn't look like this

 

[Cartier Murphy]

When Fox cans these lazy ass bums

 

[TobiOT]

How's the Shield reunion, Baron Corbin main-eventing, no build at all for the Evoultion show with random tag matches every week and the belt being there every week doing for ya?

 

[Bob Loblaw]

I remember when they thought putting the belt on Roman would usher in a greet new era. “Look! The reigning universal champ is here to defend tonight!”

 

[R=G]

How's the Shield reunion, Baron Corbin main-eventing, no build at all for the Evoultion show with random tag matches every week and the belt being there every week doing for ya

Dont forget the two 50 yr olds eating up all that time for the supershow..lol

 

[CM_Burns]

If only Kevin Owens were pushed harder as the prize fighter.

I really don't think they've lost much audience since 2011 or 12. Tons of people tuned out gradually after the attitude era, but someone who was still watching in 2013 isn't gonna stop because Roman Reigns got pushed or something. Wrestling fans, as all the ad stuff released shows, are generally broke, so as viewership for liveTV goes down, it's not hard to believe that a lot of them are cutting cable or at least cutting USA.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Seeing how low the Raw thread was, I’m not surprised.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

And making more money than ever.

 

[RammerJammer]

Unless the sponsors press them on the ratings, they won't care

It'll have to get critically low, like TNA 2010 levels for them to make changes.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Not an excuse for them but ABC, NBC, FOX, and CBS all had season premieres last night AND there's still Monday Night Football. As I said not an excuse since they've been dealing TV competition for 25 years now.

Considering ratings are based on people who still haven't cut the cord yet, they'll probably just have the mindset that it means wrestling fans are more likely to cut the cord than other people.

 

[The Great One]

Everything on Television is hitting its lowest ratings ever

 

[Flywin Lannister]

Good, maybe this will motivate them to make better story lines.

You’re delusional or a master optimist

They been pushing the same meal down everybody’s throat for years

Coke Boy just dgaf

Creative just don’t have imagination

(Lesnar-Reigns 10x, Taker-HHH, not using Banks, not using Strowman properly, the HIAC ending and about 584 more things)

To those of us who lived the WWF/early WWE and WCW (NWO/Sting etc).. we knew we were entertained we had no idea we were that lucky.