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Post by xCompackx on Jan 9, 2013 14:32:48 GMT -5
^ Not true. You realise the attitude era didn't need a return of a big start to pop the rating right? Quality wrestlers with personality and interesting storylines can pop the ratings consistently. Thing is though, you can have as good a personality and interesting a storyline as you want but a guy who isn't there every week like Rock or Undertaker is always going to bring better ratings than a guy who's full-time. It's nobody's fault, that's just how it is these days.
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Post by sunnytaker on Jan 9, 2013 14:38:01 GMT -5
Down just under 2 million from Rock's last appearance (Raw 1000). First time in the 4 million range since the Raw after TLC I think. well i think that one was more for it being RAW 1000 rather than it just being the Rock showing up. just think about all the "who from DX is going to show" and "what past stars/legends will appear" threads we had here leading up to it. this time was just the Rock. i expect next week to be pretty high too with the "20th anniversary" thing taking place. too bad it is so close to RAW 1000 in my mind anyway. be seeing the folk we just saw a few months ago.
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Post by r. on Jan 9, 2013 16:30:36 GMT -5
So a raw that featured Two great mic workers, One 400+day champion and One in his prime legend that didn't play second fiddle to AJ saga mach 23,452,000 and did the job of making people want to buy the royal rumble, Did good numbers?
Color me shocked.
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Post by Arrow on Jan 9, 2013 17:51:09 GMT -5
- 411mania.
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Post by Sam Punk on Jan 9, 2013 21:21:35 GMT -5
^ Not true. You realise the attitude era didn't need a return of a big start to pop the rating right? I do. Do you realize that things have changed since the Attitude Era? Back in 1999, I couldn't jump onto YouTube a few hours after the show ended and see the whole thing. I had to catch Raw right then and there, because if I didn't, I wouldn't get another chance. If it was compelling tv, people would make sure they watched it live.But they'll never get things up to Attitude levels with the amount of overexposure. Austin and Rock in '99 worked under much different circumstances than the guys do today. They were just as overexposed then as now. They had Raw/ Smackdown/Sunday Night Heat/monthly ppvs back then so it's not like you rarely saw them.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Jan 9, 2013 21:29:17 GMT -5
I do. Do you realize that things have changed since the Attitude Era? Back in 1999, I couldn't jump onto YouTube a few hours after the show ended and see the whole thing. I had to catch Raw right then and there, because if I didn't, I wouldn't get another chance. If it was compelling tv, people would make sure they watched it live.But they'll never get things up to Attitude levels with the amount of overexposure. Austin and Rock in '99 worked under much different circumstances than the guys do today. They were just as overexposed then as now. They had Raw/ Smackdown/Sunday Night Heat/monthly ppvs back then so it's not like you rarely saw them.Overexposure refers not so much to PPV's and weekly programming, so much as the effects of new media; i.e. the internet, TiVo, etc. To that, as compelling as a show as, say, Game of Thrones is, it takes a ratings blow from people who don't watch or have HBO. At the same time, you can't deny the popularity of 2012's most pirated show - but piracy, YouTube and the like aren't accounted for in ratings numbers.
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