Boo!
Dennis Stamp
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Post by Boo! on Jan 1, 2015 15:23:55 GMT -5
Everytime I hear the Monday Night Football excuse I roll my eyes. TV remotes in people's houses don't just have Football and wrestling buttons. People aren't watching simply because they don't want to see what we put ourselves through every monday.That's like one of us blaming MNF because no one "liked" their post. I've often wondered how true the correlation is. It seems that there's no strong link. Crappy MNF - Raw ratings sometimes go up or down. Awesome MNF - Raw ratings are sometimes up or down. The link seems to strenuous and random on far too regular a basis for the conclusion that get drawn from it that some do, e.g it shares the same audience. Sure some people are crossover but others are crossovers for other things too. If it was a case of Raw audience being impacted each week by MNF then fine - but there seems to be little or no thread to it. Each week it's "Raw did well/poorly against a MFN match which many people watched/didn't get high ratings"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2015 18:10:05 GMT -5
Say someone is equal parts WWE fan and NFL fan. That is the hypothetical fan that would cause MNF to impact the Raw rating. On Sunday, this person watched at least one 3 hour football game, possibly 2, maybe even 3. There's no new WWE shows on, unless of course there's a PPV.
The following Monday, there is another football game on. Or, there's WWE's flagship show. Unless it's a marquee match-up, or the game involves this fan's hometown team, I think they'd be more likely to watch Raw than MNF. They got their football fix the day before. And if there was a WWE PPV the night before, then the nature of wrestling says "tune in tomorrow night and see the fallout."
WWE's got the advantage here, in terms of that on the fence fan that could go with wrestling or football on Monday nights. It's understandable the rating dips a little bit for those 17 weeks, because some people like wrestling enough to watch it but much prefer football. But as far as a week to week change, I don't think it's got much to do with football.
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