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WWE Raw drops to lowest TV rating in 18 years
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Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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The difference is that WCW's nitro main events were like Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart vs Sting and Randy Savage. Their star power was ridiculous. WWE has...Roman Reigns and Sheamus.
UberTag
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Hey... don't knock the star power of Sheamus. Did you happen to catch him on ESPN SportsCenter last week?
And you'll also find him on movie screens everywhere next summer playing the role of Rocksteady in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.
UberTag
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Every day in the senile Vince era is fun.
Consider this thread bumped indefinitely until he croaks.
It's okay, though... because the WWE is still profitable. Yes, profitable. Because they've managed to con advertisers into thinking people still like their shitty product more than one week out of the year and because they've cultivated key relationships with Bonnie Hammer, ESPN and the Susan G. Komen scam artists. So let us ignore all of the missed opportunities and the sheer unwatchability of endless commercials, Network shilling and "make Roman look strong" self-defeated booking and praise the genius of this man instead.
Violence Jack
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It's sad that I look forward to this thread every week. But WWE obviously isn't getting the message that Raw sucks now, and people don't want to watch 3 hours of this badly-booked shit.
UberTag
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Apparently we've now crossed the streams into the meta territory where it's now a GOOD thing that RAW is shit because it keeps people talking about it on angry podcasts and blogs (and in this thread). Hating on the WWE is now its own cottage industry... pioneered by Bryan Alvarez and everyone from Steve Austin to Vince Russo is now hopping on the bandwagon to get viewers, hits and subscriptions.
No they are.They actually send out an email for help!
WWE sent out an email blast to its WWE Fan Council yesterday, asking them to take a survey concerning the state of Raw. The email asked when a viewer actually watches the show, when they change the channel and other questions. The company was curious if the respondent would change the channel during talking segments, backstage bits, recaps, ect. Raw has lost approximately [25 percent] of its viewership since July.
Violence Jack
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Fan council? That's a thing?
TheAusHulk
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When I was a young lad I use to love watching wrestling and practicing moves on my cousins ect. Seems like the younger crowd these days watch UFC more & more and the older fans are just getting bored of wrestling.
I thought same
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Deleted member 47027
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If the WWE Fan Council would have been doing their jobs, they wouldn't be in this predicament. Lay blame where it belongs.
Ban Puncher
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Bump Raw up to a 14/MA but don't go full-blown carny. You want the UFC crowd and reality show lovers, not backyard wrasslin' dirtbags with no disposable income. Lesnar is the Gatekeeper.
Rarely (if ever) have the two shows and wrestlers interact with each other.
Diversify the product for different audiences. I don't want to watch 5-6 hours of the same thing with the same people every week. In fact I haven't in years.
Or continue to do nothing different and I'll stick with checking in on NXT every other week, I'm easy.
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megamerican
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That's funny, people on the WWE Fan Council are exactly the people the WWE should not be turning to. They should send something out to people who have canceled the network, give them a free month for answering the survey.
This past Monday’s edition of WWE Monday Night RAW drew an average of 3.17 million viewers. This officially brings the average RAW viewership to back over 3 million after dipping to 2.964 million viewers last week. Below is a breakdown of the hour-by-hour average viewership for this past Monday’s episode:
1st Hour- 3.309 million
2nd Hour- 3.190 million
3rd Hour- 3.005 million
SORRY GUYS! YOU LOSE!
1st Hour- 3.309 million
2nd Hour- 3.190 million
3rd Hour- 3.005 million
SORRY GUYS! YOU LOSE!
This past Mondays edition of WWE Monday Night RAW drew an average of 3.17 million viewers. This officially brings the average RAW viewership to back over 3 million after dipping to 2.964 million viewers last week. Below is a breakdown of the hour-by-hour average viewership for this past Mondays episode:
1st Hour- 3.309 million
2nd Hour- 3.190 million
3rd Hour- 3.005 million
SORRY GUYS! YOU LOSE!
To be fair, this past Monday Night game between the lowly Ravens without Flacco and Browns without Manziel probably pushed a lot of people to watch something else.
Officerrob
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Last weeks MNF game averaged 14.2 million. Basically it took MNF losing 4 million viewers over the prior week to produce a minor bump
MNF would've dropped off harder had it gone to OT
So, December 1st 2014:
The show drew an average of 3.88 million viewers.
Hour one: 4.23 million
Hour two: 3.95 million
Hour three: 3.47 million
Hey, it's only 710.000 viewers lost in a years time. I guess it's us that lose, indeed.
I hope they don't fuck this stable up. It has some real potential. Anything that gets my boy Rusev gets back in the spotlight.
Honestly I enjoyed a lot of Raw this week. I love New Day and they were there pretty much every hour, Charolette, Becky and Paige have a new, interesting wrinkle in their angle, and the League of Nations could be great if handled properly.
Though, I was almost thinking that there'd be a triple heel turn against Reigns if he had actually lost. THAT would have been really exciting to see where they took it... But they didn't and I was foolish for thinking they'd even consider it.
It'll all be crap when Reigns eventually ends up winning though.
Though, I was almost thinking that there'd be a triple heel turn against Reigns if he had actually lost. THAT would have been really exciting to see where they took it... But they didn't and I was foolish for thinking they'd even consider it.
It'll all be crap when Reigns eventually ends up winning though.
I hope they don't fuck this stable up. It has some real potential. Anything that gets my boy Rusev gets back in the spotlight.
i'm sure they won't fuck it up, nothing to worry about
DKehoe
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Let's just wait and see where this goes
I hope they don't fuck this stable up. It has some real potential. Anything that gets my boy Rusev gets back in the spotlight.
Uno Venova
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If there is one thing WWE knows how to do, it's to keep a good thing going.
I hope they don't fuck this stable up. It has some real potential. Anything that gets my boy Rusev gets back in the spotlight.
darkside31337
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Shame the ratings didn't drop. This weeks Raw was the one that broke me (only reason I even bothered tuning in was because MNF was trash), don't plan on watching any WWE until the Rumble.
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Maybe you should quit watching entirely
darkside31337
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Nah. I still enjoy wrestling and I think they'll get out of this rut eventually. NXT is still great. But tuning in to see Tommy Dreamer in 2015 is somehow fucking worse than tuning in to see Kane in 2015.
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Survivor Series did not qualify as good enough.
Good enough to be caught up.
Ah ok.
I can't wait for Sheamus's reign to last longer than Bryan's.
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