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Last night’s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw (3/26) drew a 2.29 rating, the highest rating since Jan. 29’s 2.37 rating. It beat the 2018 average so far of 2.23 and tied the ten-week rolling average headed into this week 2.29 (which was buoyed by the Raw 25 ratings surge of 3.01 back on Jan. 22).
March ended with a 2.22 average, above the February average of 2.12 but below the January average of 2.29.
Hourly viewership: 3.403 million, 3.547 million, 3.150 million.
The first-to-third hour drop-off was 253,000 well below the 2018 average so far of 464,000. It beat last week’s smaller-than-average drop-off, which was 358,000. It’s the smallest drop-off since Oct 9 last year and virtually ties the 255,000 drop-off on the Jan. 1 show. This week John Cena vs. Kane was the advertised main event, and anticipation for a possible Undertaker appearance likely kept more viewers than usual tuned in.
The rating was one year ago this week was 2.24; this is the third week in a row that Raw’s rating this year beat year-ago numbers. That hasn’t happened since last October where a stretch of three weeks also occurred. Two years ago this week Raw drew a 2.66.
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