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July Wrasslin |OT| The Game, The Kane, The Pain, and The Insane (AJ)

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Officerrob

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SoulPlaya said:
Man, I wonder what Tori looks like now.
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RBH

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From the Observer:



If there was a key to the Raw rating, the tease that A.J. was going to marry the person she left the ring with worked. The gain of 711,000 viewers for the overrun is normal level (a good 3.61 overrun), but this was done without John Cena in the segment, and with C.M. Punk and Daniel Bryan, who have never moved ratings big. Plus, there was gigantic increase in teenage boys watching for the overrun only that wasn’t there for the rest of the show. That demo hovered between a 2.7 and 3.2 rating the entire show, but hit a 4.4 for the overrun. Overrun growth was 3.2 to 4.4 in that demo, 2.5 to 3.1 in Males 18-49, 1.2 to 1.4 in Girls 12-17 and stayed at 1.1 with Women 18-49. It should be noted that it’s the marrying gimmick and not the personalities since A.J., Punk nor Bryan spiked ratings in that demo in their interview segment this week or any other week in this storyline. Whether it’s a sign of things to come, or something meaningless where the tease of a marriage sparked interest that isn’t going to sustain will be determined in the future.

As far as comparisons to the week before, Boys 12-17 did a 3.1 (up 3%, all due to the overrun), Males 18-49 did a 2.5 (same as last week), Girls 12-17 did a 1.1 (down 8%) and Women 18-49 did a 1.1 (down 15%). That’s also notable because the wedding teases usually inflates the female audience more than the men, plus Home Run Derby figured to hurt among men, not women. The male skew was 67.4%. Raw was in 5th place for the night on cable.

For quarters, the long opening monologue with A.J., Punk and Bryan along with Sheamus vs. Jack Swagger lost 74,000 viewers. Christian & Tyson Kidd vs. Tensai & Dolph Ziggler and the Lawler vs. Cole angle building their match lost 416,000 viewers. Brodus Clay vs. Drew McIntyre plus Stephanie McMahon talking about the angle where she and HHH were to renew their vows gained 102,000 viewers. John Cena & Kane vs. Big Show & Chris Jericho gained 66,000 viewers, which is not good for that time period. What happened is they did about a 280,000 gain at 10 p.m., which is lower than usual, but then lost those viewers when the match went longer and went through the second break. Heath Slater vs. Sin Cara and his angle with Bob Backlund lots 21,000 viewers. Lawler vs. Cole and the Hornswoggle as General Manager reveal also lost 21,000 viewers.
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A note regarding updated universes of the various cable stations. With people very slowly switching away from satellite and dishes, there has been a small drop, not enough yet to really matter but it is a worrisome trend.

As of the end of June, the USA Network was available in 99,301,000 homes, which is 86.6% of the homes in the U.S. They peaked at nearly 101 million a year ago. Almost every station has shown similar declines. Spike TV is in 98,623,000 homes after peaking at more than 100 million. We don’t have a number for FX, but it’s in the 98.5 million range. Syfy is in 98,006,000 homes. MTV 2 is in about 75 million homes and Fuel is in 36.2 million homes.
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DMczaf

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John Cena & Kane vs. Big Show & Chris Jericho gained 66,000 viewers, which is not good for that time period. What happened is they did about a 280,000 gain at 10 p.m., which is lower than usual, but then lost those viewers when the match went longer and went through the second break.
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Aiii

So not worth it
It should be noted that it’s the marrying gimmick and not the personalities since A.J., Punk nor Bryan spiked ratings in that demo in their interview segment this week or any other week in this storyline. Whether it’s a sign of things to come, or something meaningless where the tease of a marriage sparked interest that isn’t going to sustain will be determined in the future.
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I call bullshit on this analysis.

For one, I'd argue that the angle == the people involved. Secondly, up untill last monday's Raw Bryan/Punk/AJ angle played second fiddle to Cena/Big Show/Johnny Ace. People need time to adjust to new circumstances. Last week they saw a heavy shift in focus to AJ/Bryan/Punk, which continued this week and thus drew in more interest. Besides, Bryan/AJ drew ratings for Smackdown early this year as well, why wouldn't they be drawing for Raw as well?
 
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XShagrath

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Sokantish said:
I feel so betrayed by RBH. Here it is almost 4 am and I still have no NXT. This is an outrage!
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3rd taping of NXT is tonight. The second set of tapings was much improved over the first, so hopefully this one's even better. I'll be there, but won't remember all of the matches and stuff by the time I get home.

Was really disappointed that Ambrose hasn't been featured at all in either of the first two tapings (which I believe spans the first 5-6 eps). He was in the dark match at the first one, but not even there during the second taping. Ohno was not used in the second taping at all either.
 
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Aiii

So not worth it
I think the plan still is for Ambrose to debut on Smackdown or Raw pretty soon. They dropped the Foley-feud though, so who knows.

However, I don't expect him to be on NXT much, if at all.
 
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Sokantish

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Razorskin said:
ahaha, I'll have my NXT in glorious HD tonight.
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I wish I lived in some terrible country so I could watch NXT on my TV!

XShagrath said:
3rd taping of NXT is tonight. The second set of tapings was much improved over the first, so hopefully this one's even better. I'll be there, but won't remember all of the matches and stuff by the time I get home.

Was really disappointed that Ambrose hasn't been featured at all in either of the first two tapings (which I believe spans the first 5-6 eps). He was in the dark match at the first one, but not even there during the second taping. Ohno was not used in the second taping at all either.
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Oh they don't tape it until today. Well that's just prime.

I haven't really seen any of Ambrose at all but everyone here likes him so I'm excited to see him if he ever shows up again. I'm kind of glad the Mick Foley thing didn't work out, Foley moves as well as Khali now
 
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Sokantish

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I don't even remember what Chyna's theme was, I better go look this up.

What a dumb theme, how could that even get stuck in your head?
 
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Wrestlemania

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XShagrath said:
Was really disappointed that Ambrose hasn't been featured at all in either of the first two tapings (which I believe spans the first 5-6 eps). He was in the dark match at the first one, but not even there during the second taping
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Most likely because he'll be going straight in to Raw/Smackdown.
 
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Conrad Link

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I'll admit, I've had Chyna's theme in my head before.... or more correctly the first 20 sec of it

Have no idea why, I just did lol.

OOOOOOOOWA DON'T TREAT ME LIKE A WOMAN, DON'T TREAT ME LIKE A MAN

Re NXT: Needs more Paige.
 
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