Raw records it’s lowest non-holiday rating ever

[RammerJammer]

As was predicted, Raw last night, in doing 2.13 million viewers, did the lowest mark in its modern history with the exception of Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

The Toronto Raptors vs. Golden State Warriors game five did 18.22 million viewers in the United States, and was the sole reason for the record low number, even coming after a pay-per-view when Raw traditionally gets a bump.

The game actually only went against hours two and three of Raw, as Jimmy Kimmel and the NBA Countdown was in the 8 p.m. hour on ABC.

The previous non-holiday low was April 29, which did 2.16 million viewers.

Raw was seventh for the night on cable, trailing news shows on FOX News and MSNBC. The basketball game was on ABC.

This was the last NBA playoff game against WWE programming, as the sixth game is on Thursday and if there is a seventh game, it would be on Sunday.

The show had a 19.8 percent first-to-third hour drop, which isn't record levels, but it among the biggest drops of all-time.

To show where viewers left, women 18-49 dropped 31 percent from the first to third hour, men 18-49 dropped 15 percent, teenage girls dropped 63 percent, teenage boys actually increased ten percent, and over 50 dropped 18 percent. It is notable that during a hot basketball game, that it was women, by far, turning off Raw more than men, even though in the 18-49 demo, the basketball game had a 66-34 male skew.

The three hours were:

• 8 p.m. 2.38 million viewers
• 9 p.m. 2.09 million viewers
• 10 p.m. 1.91 million viewers

 

[RammerJammer]

 

[GOATpernick]

 

[MightyHealthy]

TV ratings can always be explained away with excuses, but there's little to argue when it comes to dwindling crowds.

I went to Smackdown Live for free, got to see Daniel Bryan wrestle in person, and I had an overwhelming sense of dread and pity that top performers came out to such shyt crowds.

Empty seats deflate.

 

[The Great One]

You'd think CM Punk was champ or something.

He was the lowest rated champ ever until now.

 

[richaveli83]

 

[MenacingMonk]

Took the pic when Lynch came out. I see what the beard did.

 

[TobiOT]

 

[Silkk]

Sole reason? Nah, how about the show was fuccking doo doo chop sticks


I watched about 20 mins while fast forwarding through and had the on 90% of the time

 

[JerseyBoy23]

The worst part about this picture is that the wrestlers can't even work towards the side where people actually are because they'd get a from Vince for ignoring the main camera once they got to the back.

 

[2CT]

i can't wait til the XFL attendance pics start getting posted

 

[richaveli83]

i can't wait til the XFL attendance pics start getting posted

 

[Jmare007]

You gotta wonder if this company can keep finding ways of making big money in spite of every traditional wrestling metric (attendance, merchandise, ratings) getting worse each year, and getting rid of their former core business (PPV) because they saw the writing on the wall.

After so many years of slow and steady declines - or ups and downs, specially with attendance -, they've reached a point were there's very little margin and continue to go down can't be excused or replaced anymore.

Vince took more than a decade creating a system that was able to get huge profits no matter how bad (or good) traditional/core metrics were at the moment. Are we close to reaching a point were that will stop being the case? I honestly have no clue, but these last 6 months have been unusually bad for them, no spark or anything to hold on to whatsoever.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

no Watch gang ain't nothin to fukk with

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Like someone said there's multiple excuses for viewership but none for attendance.