Raw on Monday night averaged 1.62 million viewers with a 0.53 rating in 18-49 against strong NBA and NHL playoff competition.
Raw traditionally shows noticeable increases after a PPV but that wasn’t the case this week as it was down, while both the NBA and NHL showed increases.
We don’t have the full chart at press time but Raw would have been neck-and-neck with the Boston Bruins vs. Florida Panthers NHL game on ESPN that did 1.85 million viewers and a 0.53 demo rating. The New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers NBA game against the first two hours of Raw did 4.25 million viewers and a 1.44 on TNT and 513,000/0.17 on TruTV. The Denver vs. Minnesota game against hour three did 4.06 million viewers and a 1.47 in 18-49 on TNT and 609,000 and a 0.22 on Tru.
Raw was either third or fourth for the night in 18-49.
It was down four percent in viewers and down three percent in 18-49 from last week’s draft episode.
The show had a larger drop during the show as compared to most episodes in recent weeks with the main event of Gunther vs. Sheamus.
From one year ago, Raw was down nine percent in viewers but up four percent in 18-49, once again showing an increase in younger viewers and decrease with people over 50, which has been the pattern since August.
For a comparison, the NBA was down 22 percent in 18-49 from the same Monday last year while the NHL was up 36 percent.
Factoring in homes that no longer have the USA Network, it would really be a four percent drop in viewers for Raw and a 15 percent gain in 18-49.
The three hours were:
- 8 p.m. 1.71 million viewers
- 9 p.m. 1.69 million viewers
- 10 p.m. 1.46 million viewers
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