Raw rating and records

[~*Young $ Money*~]

WWE® (WWE) today announced that Monday Night Raw’s historic 1,000th episode broke records for television viewership and online engagement, making it the most watched three-hour Raw in history by reaching more than six million viewers, amassing a 3.9 rating and accumulating 52 worldwide Twitter trends. Monday Night Raw’s historic episode was the most watched program on cable television and beat every program on CBS, NBC, ABC and CW. Last night’s episode began a new era of Monday Night Raw when the longest-running weekly television show in U.S. history permanently moved to a three-hour format with a new start time of 8/7C on USA Network.
Ratings highlights from Monday Night Raw include:
Most watched three-hour Raw ever with over six million viewers.
Two-hour regularly scheduled portion (9-11 p.m.) of last night’s episode was the most watched Raw since the show returned to USA Network in 2005 and the best in 10 years with over 6.3 million total viewers.
Monday night’s most watched program on cable.
Most watched program on all television (broadcast and cable) among all male viewers.
Most watched program on cable for adults 18-49 and adults 25-54.
According to Trendrr, Monday Night Raw was the No. 1 program on cable and broadcast last night. Additional social media and digital highlights include:
Social activity for Monday Night Raw was higher than the Top 10 broadcast shows combined.
BlueFin Labs named Monday Night Raw’s 1000th episode the No. 4 most social series programming episode of all time behind only American Idol and Pretty Little Liars.
Activity spiked to more than 11,000 comments-per-minute during the appearance of The Undertaker®, the biggest social media moment of #Raw1000.
WWE’s hashtag poll "Should AJ say “I Do or I Don’t” was the No. 1 moment in Raw history with 9,000 tweets-per-minute.
WWE.com’s 17 million page views and 1.2 million daily unique visitors were up 92 percent and 47 percent year-over-year, respectively.

[ASR (therockisback)]

Looks like Vince and the WWE will be proud of themselves but they got to somehow maintain those numbers heading into next years WM. Next weeks show should at least get a 3.5-4.0.

[jc]

Well, here's another 'Did you know?' segment on next weeks Raw.

[OverTheEdge]

Jul 24, 2012 20:16:40 GMT -5 jc said:

Well, here's another an entire night's worth of 'Did you know?' segment on next weeks Raw.

And rightfully so. They, by all means, earned it--just like every other thing they've ever mentioned/bragged about. So why not share that info with people who might not read this kind of stuff?

[~*Young $ Money*~]

Thinking about it I think they had no choice but to turn someone or have a major swerve to get those people to tune in next week.

[King Clayton of the MidWest]

Damn!

Great news.

[Irish Wrestling Entertainment]

All this shows is that the WWE promoted the show well. The fact that someone watches the show doesn't mean they enjoyed it. WWE need to seriously stop over-analysing ratings as a means of satisfying sponsors and focus on actually improving their product.

Regardless, I am happy for them and this is very good news in terms of the success of the business.

[Mike Bockwinkel]

That’s impressive!

[prodigy]

Jul 24, 2012 20:21:39 GMT -5 ~*Young $ Money*~ said:

Thinking about it I think they had no choice but to turn someone or have a major swerve to get those people to tune in next week.

True, And I wonder if Rock will be on Raw next week?

[Nivro™]

wait.... a 3.9 rating? They're celebrating a show that use to get ratings in the 7s and 8s.....

["Living Legend" Duttanized]

Jul 24, 2012 22:26:57 GMT -5 Nivro™ said:

wait.... a 3.9 rating? They're celebrating a show that use to get ratings in the 7s and 8s.....

Didn't they only get above 7 like 5-6 times? I do remember them making quite a few high 6's though...

[Deleted]

Jul 24, 2012 22:26:57 GMT -5 Nivro™ said:

wait.... a 3.9 rating? They're celebrating a show that use to get ratings in the 7s and 8s.....

7s and 8s during an era when professional wrestling was at its hottest, and that's not even considering it from a mainstream aspect. You make it seem like the show doesn't deserve to celebrate when you have a show that does MUCH more than your average rating. Just look at the records they achieved with Raw 1000. To say "Who cares, they used to get higher ratings" despite all the factors that lead to the ratings drop in general, is just ignorant.

[threehgame]

Last week had a 3.44 rating with 4.9 million viewers. This week's Raw had a 3.9 rating with 6.3 million viewers. Nostalgia and Attitude Era stars will help bump the numbers, so expect lower numbers next week even if Rock is featured through out the show.

[Thick Justice]

Didn't last week have the ratings go up a lot also?

[DTP.]

Ratings have started to peak on-and-off since last month, but of course this is the highest they've been in quite some time. The rating for next week's RAW should be very interesting. Very happy the 'RAW Supershow' era is over with now though.