Raw Rating Stays Strong - 1/30/23

[polarbearpete]

They maintained way more of that Raw 30 audience than I imagined. #1 in the demo across cable and broadcast.

They’re up big year over year as well (last year’s post-Rumble show was at 1.8 something million viewers and a 0.47 in the demo).

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Lets hope they keep up the momentum. Helps if Vince can just stay away from creative.

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

Good f***ing work.

Helps that the show has their centerpiece back now

[Jindrak Mark]

A 0.17 jump year over year is pretty crazy.

I wonder if Vince feels some type of way about how literally every business metric has been up in the 6 months since he stopped booking or if he doesn't give a f*** because it just makes the company more valuable ahead of any potential sale.

Raw and Smackdown's ratings have both been up in the past two quarters year over year and are already all but guaranteed to be up this quarter too while every other wrestling show is way down. Every HHH booked PPV has done great business. Saturday was the biggest Rumble ever. Wrestlemania has already sold around the same amount of tickets as last years final numbers with over 2 months still to go. WWE is hotter than it's been in years and there's no way it's a coincidence it just so happened to happen with Vince now not micro-managing everything on-screen.

[polarbearpete]

[Denny Zen is Cooking™]

No denying that WWE is hot right now heading into WrestleMania season. Really excited about the prospect of a Cody championship reign. It's amazing what the change of scenery has done to rehabilitate him in my eyes. Like so many others, I was extraordinarily tired of him by the end of his AEW run.

[BlahBlah]

Happy to see this because I thought it was an entertaining show.

[A Little Doo Doo]

Cody Rhodes is ready, brother.

[Bo Rida]

There's been a long tradition in recent years that any special show that attracts a bigger audience tends to be awful to ensure none of those extra viewers stuck around. Not just WWE, many other promotions too.

Seems they finally put on a good show so more people came back. Funny how that works.

[Friday Night SmackOwn]

Both Raw and SD ratings will be hot once we have a clear picture of the "big" storylines for Mania (Cody vs. Roman, Sami & KO(?) vs. the Usos).

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Honestly, i bet a huge part of that is Cody. I know i'm watching if Cody is around.

[Rudy Gobert Weather Machine]

Jan 31, 2023 17:58:09 GMT -5 UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm said:

Honestly, i bet a huge part of that is Cody. I know i'm watching if Cody is around.

I'm like only half joking about this, a big part of Cody's appeal rn is that he's the only man likely to see some banana hat dudes in the crowd and go I WANNA BE A f***ING BANANA TOO LEMME TRY THAT. Cody was the only dude to actually grab the Mountain Dew at the Rumble scrum and make a whole deal out of tasting it. If you brought a gun to Smackdown you'd end up being an accessory to murder when Cody just unloads the clip on someone.

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

Jan 31, 2023 18:01:35 GMT -5 Rudy Gobert Weather Machine said:

Jan 31, 2023 17:58:09 GMT -5 UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm said:

Honestly, i bet a huge part of that is Cody. I know i'm watching if Cody is around.

I'm like only half joking about this, a big part of Cody's appeal rn is that he's the only man likely to see some banana hat dudes in the crowd and go I WANNA BE A f***ING BANANA TOO LEMME TRY THAT. Cody was the only dude to actually grab the Mountain Dew at the Rumble scrum and make a whole deal out of tasting it. If you brought a gun to Smackdown you'd end up being an accessory to murder when Cody just unloads the clip on someone.

He feels like a genuine guy who’s kind of a weirdo and not a robot built to be a good guy wrestler man

[fw91]

Jan 31, 2023 17:22:33 GMT -5 Bo Rida said:

There's been a long tradition in recent years that any special show that attracts a bigger audience tends to be awful to ensure none of those extra viewers stuck around. Not just WWE, many other promotions too.

Seems they finally put on a good show so more people came back. Funny how that works.

I mean, I'm sure being the post rumble show helped out too.

[lildude8218]

Roderick Still Strong

[Legion]

Wow, good numbers.

[Loser troll. Please ban me]

I'm surprised it wasn't higher. Realistically they should be pulling 4's

[polarbearpete]

Jan 31, 2023 18:23:25 GMT -5 Loser troll. Please ban me said:

I'm surprised it wasn't higher. Realistically they should be pulling 4's

Lol

[polarbearpete]

Jan 31, 2023 18:07:59 GMT -5 fw91 said:

Jan 31, 2023 17:22:33 GMT -5 Bo Rida said:

There's been a long tradition in recent years that any special show that attracts a bigger audience tends to be awful to ensure none of those extra viewers stuck around. Not just WWE, many other promotions too.

Seems they finally put on a good show so more people came back. Funny how that works.

I mean, I'm sure being the post rumble show helped out too.

Last year’s post-Rumble show was only at a 0.47 demo, so this number is huge compared to that.

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Jan 31, 2023 18:01:35 GMT -5 Rudy Gobert Weather Machine said:

Jan 31, 2023 17:58:09 GMT -5 UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm said:

Honestly, i bet a huge part of that is Cody. I know i'm watching if Cody is around.

I'm like only half joking about this, a big part of Cody's appeal rn is that he's the only man likely to see some banana hat dudes in the crowd and go I WANNA BE A f***ING BANANA TOO LEMME TRY THAT. Cody was the only dude to actually grab the Mountain Dew at the Rumble scrum and make a whole deal out of tasting it. If you brought a gun to Smackdown you'd end up being an accessory to murder when Cody just unloads the clip on someone.

yeah as you said and as moon put it, cody is like... THE corporate guy but he doesn't scream corporate if it makes sense.

he feels like a normal dude, does the little things that longtime fans like us dig and he just happens to be a fantastic wrestler, has the history, goated presentation, he is it.