10/12 Raw viewership

[cjh]

Hour 1: 3,518,000
Hour 2: 3,254,000
Hour 3: 3,082,000

Avg.: 3,284,000

[Madagascar Fred]

[Instant Classic]

I hope it keeps going down until WWE changes shit up. They deserve these kind of ratings.

[thirteen3]

Is that Hour 1 higher than last weeks? If so New Day = Ratings.

Seriously I turned off after their match.

[lionelp]

I have no idea what that number means, but They were up against a pretty big MLB game and MNF. It was hardly going to be a break out night.

[Deleted]

The further the ratings fall the more I smile because after shows like lastnight they need a swift slap in the face , kick in the ass and other means to smarten them the hell up.

[Madagascar Fred]

Oct 13, 2015 15:21:33 GMT -5 lionelp said:

I have no idea what that number means, but They were up against a pretty big MLB game and MNF. It was hardly going to be a break out night.

Worst viewership nr. for a non-holiday RAW since 1997

Quote wrestlingnewsworld:

This week’s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw did an average viewing audience of 3,284,667 viewers on the USA Network. That’s down an average of (-93,333 viewers) from the week prior. This is the lowest average audience of 2015, a mark WWE continues to set against fall competition. Below is how the show did each hour:

Hour one – 3,518,000 viewers
Hour two – 3,254,000 viewers
Hour three – 3,082,000 viewers
Average – 3,284,667 viewers

Competition was stiff everywhere. 12,182,000 viewers for Monday Night Football on ESPN and 5,784,000 for the MLB Playoffs on TBS.

[Sicho100]

And they have once again set the non-holiday record low viewership numbers in the 3-hour era.

Good Job, Demon Kane!

[Madagascar Fred]

At this point Colby Lopez and Glen Jacobs should just pretend to be seriously injured or something to force Vince to change plans in the main event scene

[Deleted]

That's the third time in four weeks they've had a record low rating. They really need to register that, "Keep doing what you're doing," isn't going to turn things around.

[Professor Chaos]

That's about right the show got progressively worse as it went on. I liked the first half though.

[Deleted]

Stay the course, Vince.

[bearned]

I'm shocked the suspense over wether or not Korporate Kane would get his match against Rollins didn't keep people glued to their TV.

[cabbageboy]

See, here's the problem with the whole Kane/Rollins feud. It doesn't really make any sense or give the average viewer any desirable outcome. It's not even a Lesnar/Rollins situation where you might dislike both men but at the end of the day want to see Rollins get destroyed. It's a heel champion going against a heel/tweener authority figure and that has zero shot of drawing money. Overall the booking of Rollins as champion has been some of the most catastrophic, terrible booking in modern times.

Ratings usually take a hit once MNF debuts but it's not this severe. Since SS WWE has gone from about 3.9 million viewers to a little over 3.2 and that's just terrifying tuning out on a level not seen since WCW in 1999. I think a lot of people were sticking with WWE thinking they'd get the belt off Rollins at SS, and once they did the whole Jon Stewart idiocy fans said the hell with it and tuned out.

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Good.

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Oct 13, 2015 15:53:16 GMT -5 cabbageboy said:

See, here's the problem with the whole Kane/Rollins feud. It doesn't really make any sense or give the average viewer any desirable outcome. It's not even a Lesnar/Rollins situation where you might dislike both men but at the end of the day want to see Rollins get destroyed. It's a heel champion going against a heel/tweener authority figure and that has zero shot of drawing money. Overall the booking of Rollins as champion has been some of the most catastrophic, terrible booking in modern times.

Plus there has been a nearly uninterrupted string of Rollins whining, Rollins getting put in a match, Rollins getting his ass kicked, if Rollins wins it's not at all of his own doing, repeat for over a year now cluttering up the main event scene, and he's effectively had the belt since last September at this point in terms of his roster positioning all while nobody has really made any concentrated attempt to bring him down and with no one being actively built up to do it. People are probably just sick of it.

Though I don't think that's the only thing. I think a biiiig part of the sliding ratings is the fact that nothing ends in a timely fashion these days. Every single feud lasts at least three PPVs it seems like, typically without any escalation in the conflict or some sort of gimmick match or anything. It's just match happens, guy wins, they keep fighting in the weeks after for some reason, another match happens and the other guy wins, repeat until Vince gets bored with that match and does something else. The show as a whole has absolutely zero forward momentum or reason to get invested in it and every single person on the roster is floundering in some way.

And there's not even the slightest, eensiest bit of logical follow-up on anything most of the time. Like, for an example. It's been done to death, sure, but Cena just beat the WWE Champion in three consecutive matches, two of which were clean and the third they acted like it was clean. Why is he not even slightly interested in a title shot?

[Big Poppa Pumpkin]

First hour was up, second and third were way down. That seems about right to me as the show started strong and just got worse.

[Jeff Mangum PI]

If only Vince would micro-manage just a little bit more, they could finally get out of this ratings slump.

[Bub (BLM)]

Okay, when does Vince finally get voted out of his own company? At some point Stephanie has to confront the situation because her dad is essentially destroying her future.

[xCompackx]

Oct 13, 2015 16:21:19 GMT -5 Bub (BLM) said:

Okay, when does Vince finally get voted out of his own company? At some point Stephanie has to confront the situation because her dad is essentially destroying her future.

I don't think you can be voted out if you own the majority of the shares. Not to mention that WWE stock would plummet if Vince was gone.