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Post by Madagascar Fred on Jul 31, 2011 5:06:18 GMT -5
thanks Punk  www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/196049/The-Latest-UK-Ratings-For-WWE-&-TNA.htmUK TV ratings for the week ending July 17, 2011 - including the rating for Destination X Raw from July 11 (go-home for Money in the Bank) - drew 162,000 in the live airing (up 44,000 viewers from last week/+37%) - drew 54,000 in a replay on Thursday evening (+24,000 viewers/+80%) SmackDown from July 15 - drew 125,000 in the first airing (up 13,000/+11%) Impact from July 7 - drew 211,000 in the first airing of the show on July 12 (down -5,000/-2%) Destination X - drew 180,000 airing on Wednesday night after the PPV (July 13). Compared to Slammiversary, that's up 23,000 viewers/15%. |
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Post by Brian Suntan on Jul 31, 2011 5:43:20 GMT -5
162,000 people watched Raw live at 2am? That's pretty huge. I wonder what that would've been in terms of a %.
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Post by who throws a shoe?! on Jul 31, 2011 7:58:45 GMT -5
162,000 people watched Raw live at 2am? That's pretty huge. I wonder what that would've been in terms of a %. Does that take into account people recording it? I can't imagine that many people watching it that late on a Monday. |
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Post by baresolid on Jul 31, 2011 9:11:59 GMT -5
I imagine that's mostly people using Sky+ to record it.
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Post by ScottishProWrestling on Jul 31, 2011 10:02:33 GMT -5
TNA are beating WWE by quite a distance in the ratings here?
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Post by baresolid on Jul 31, 2011 10:14:04 GMT -5
TNA are beating WWE by quite a distance in the ratings here? TNA is on Challenge, which is on Freeview, which means virtually every household gets it on free-to-air television. Raw, however, is on Sky Sports, which carries a hefty satellite subscription which amounts to nearly £50 a month. That would explain it. |
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Post by Objection! on Jul 31, 2011 10:57:10 GMT -5
What are the ratings for Smackdown? They show it on Sky One on a Saturday. Sky One doesn't require a Sky Sports subscription.
Also Superstars is on Sky One.
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Post by ScottishProWrestling on Jul 31, 2011 11:03:25 GMT -5
Challenge is a generally low-ratings channel. Im very surprised by this, SKY still has large amounts of Sport Subscribers, ive worked with them for a few months now actually.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 31, 2011 11:23:58 GMT -5
WWE would get higher ratings in the UK if Sky ever bothered to promote it.
Aside from Box Office events, Sky never mention WWE much at all.
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Post by Objection! on Jul 31, 2011 11:30:38 GMT -5
WWE would get higher ratings in the UK if Sky ever bothered to promote it. Aside from Box Office events, Sky never mention WWE much at all. This is probably true. But I've never seen an ad for IW outside of Challenge, and even those are very rare. Also they never advertise the PPV showings for TNA unless you count the IW broadcasts. I guess the powers that be don't feel the need to advertise Wrestling/Sports Entertainment . |
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Post by funkyjesus on Jul 31, 2011 11:33:37 GMT -5
What are the ratings for Smackdown? They show it on Sky One on a Saturday. Sky One doesn't require a Sky Sports subscription. Also Superstars is on Sky One. Sky One is still a lot less visible than Challenge. If WWE and TNA were both on BBC and ITV or something, then you'd see WWE is far more popular. |
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Post by Objection! on Jul 31, 2011 11:37:06 GMT -5
What are the ratings for Smackdown? They show it on Sky One on a Saturday. Sky One doesn't require a Sky Sports subscription. Also Superstars is on Sky One. Sky One is still a lot less visible than Challenge. If WWE and TNA were both on BBC and ITV or something, then you'd see WWE is far more popular. I hear that. Take me back to the days when WCW was on channel 5. |
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Post by joey joe joe junior shabadoo on Jul 31, 2011 11:38:43 GMT -5
Challenge is a generally low-ratings channel. Im very surprised by this, SKY still has large amounts of Sport Subscribers, ive worked with them for a few months now actually. People who like sports don't necessarily like wrestling and vice versa. TNA being on challenge is the first time wrestling has been on free TV in the UK in ten years and thus is attracting the casual viewer because people are just flicking through the channels and stumbling upon it! |
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Post by joey joe joe junior shabadoo on Jul 31, 2011 11:43:53 GMT -5
Sky One is still a lot less visible than Challenge. If WWE and TNA were both on BBC and ITV or something, then you'd see WWE is far more popular. I hear that. Take me back to the days when WCW was on channel 5. Or when Heat was on channel 4! Really I think the WWE are missing a trick here. If they showed their TV shows on free channels and made the ppvs available to buy through freeview sets they'd have a lot more fans here in the UK. I'd happily pay to watch ppvs on my tv if i could but i can't so wtach them illegally and for free on the internet! |
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Post by funkyjesus on Jul 31, 2011 11:53:45 GMT -5
I hear that. Take me back to the days when WCW was on channel 5. Or when Heat was on channel 4! Really I think the WWE are missing a trick here. If they showed their TV shows on free channels and made the ppvs available to buy through freeview sets they'd have a lot more fans here in the UK. I'd happily pay to watch ppvs on my tv if i could but i can't so wtach them illegally and for free on the internet! They tried this in 2000. We got horrible PPV's on Channel 4, with edits, censorship and promos and starts of matches missing. Adverts in the Royal Rumble match and god knows what. Not to mention presenters mocking Sunday Night Heat for being fake right before it started - shockingly the ratings fell drastically and Heat got moved to like 5am before Sky took it all back. I want ESPN to take WWE totally, like they have with UFC. That way we get all the shows, in HD (so people on Virgin like me can see it in HD) and we get limited advertisements. Sky mess the times up weekly (especially SmackDown and NXT) and plaster scroll adverts along the bottom for some new UK porn show they made up or something. |
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Post by Bobeddy on Jul 31, 2011 11:57:35 GMT -5
What are the ratings for Smackdown? They show it on Sky One on a Saturday. Sky One doesn't require a Sky Sports subscription. Also Superstars is on Sky One. Sky One's airing of Smackdown is really inconsistent. It was on this week, but there were at least 3 times during the summer where I sat down to watch it and it was Stargate or something else. |
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Post by baresolid on Jul 31, 2011 11:57:50 GMT -5
Is there enough of a market for WWE to e picked up by one of the main channels, though? However, if it was to go on them, we could do without the KAPOW!!! etc that they edited onto WCW broadcasts on Channel 5.
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Post by baresolid on Jul 31, 2011 12:02:46 GMT -5
What was the rating for Money in the Bank - anybody know?
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Post by Madagascar Fred on Jul 31, 2011 12:16:11 GMT -5
WWE would get higher ratings in the UK if Sky ever bothered to promote it. Aside from Box Office events, Sky never mention WWE much at all. This is probably true. But I've never seen an ad for IW outside of Challenge, and even those are very rare. Also they never advertise the PPV showings for TNA unless you count the IW broadcasts. I guess the powers that be don't feel the need to advertise Wrestling/Sports Entertainment . thats sad to hear we get 1 hour of SD on free TV here in Germany, and it's mostly Saturday night at 10 or 11pm - once or twice a year there's a kind of "add campaign" on that channel, they show commercials for SD like 3 or 4 time per day, this always lasts like 2-3 weeks, kinda like a reminder |
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Post by joey joe joe junior shabadoo on Jul 31, 2011 12:16:37 GMT -5
Or when Heat was on channel 4! Really I think the WWE are missing a trick here. If they showed their TV shows on free channels and made the ppvs available to buy through freeview sets they'd have a lot more fans here in the UK. I'd happily pay to watch ppvs on my tv if i could but i can't so wtach them illegally and for free on the internet! They tried this in 2000. We got horrible PPV's on Channel 4, with edits, censorship and promos and starts of matches missing. Adverts in the Royal Rumble match and god knows what. Not to mention presenters mocking Sunday Night Heat for being fake right before it started - shockingly the ratings fell drastically and Heat got moved to like 5am before Sky took it all back. I want ESPN to take WWE totally, like they have with UFC. That way we get all the shows, in HD (so people on Virgin like me can see it in HD) and we get limited advertisements. Sky mess the times up weekly (especially SmackDown and NXT) and plaster scroll adverts along the bottom for some new UK porn show they made up or something. No I'm saying make all the PPVs avalible to BUY through your freeview box which you currently sometimes can do for some big ones like Wrestlemania. Obviously there'd by no adverts in a ppv you've paid for. |
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