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8/1 WWE Raw TV Ratings – how did Week 2 fare on Monday night?

August 2, 2016

WWE Raw TV Ratings Tracking August 1: The second Raw of the “new era” scored a 2.30 TV rating, down slightly from a 2.36 last week. Raw’s three hours averaged 3.314 million viewers, slightly down from 3.338 […]

7/26 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings – how did the official Week 1 fare?

July 27, 2016

By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor It was the start of a new era for Smackdown following last week’s Live Smackdown/Draft Special that gave way to the first official week of Smackdown having its own […]

6/30 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings – Thursday’s show down to near year-low

July 1, 2016

WWE Smackdown fell to a near year-low Thursday night on USA Network. WWE Smackdown TV Ratings Tracking June 30: WWE Smackdown scored a 1.52 rating, down from a 1.58 last week. It was nearly the lowest […]

Week of June 20 DVR Viewership – Raw’s big total audience post-MITB, Smackdown, TNA Impact post-Malfunction Night

June 30, 2016

DVR TRACKING TABLES – 2016 WWE Raw (including First Quarter Average) WWE Smackdown (including Q1 Average) TNA Impact (including Q1 Average) Lucha Underground (including Q1 Average) Updated 6/30: Includes total Live+DVR viewership for June 20 Raw […]

Spring TV Viewership Report – WWE Smackdown & “American Grit” peak early on Thursdays

June 10, 2016

The nine-week run of WWE Smackdown and John Cena’s “American Grit” sharing TV space on Thursday nights peaked early and faded late. From April 14 to June 9, Smackdown averaged 2.23 million viewers, down 10 […]

6/9 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings fall to year-low; SD draws fewer than 2.0 million viewers

June 10, 2016

This week’s WWE Smackdown drew an embarrassingly-low audience Thursday night on USA Network. WWE Smackdown TV Ratings Tracking June 9: WWE Smackdown scored a year-low 1.51 TV rating, down from a 1.59 rating last week. The […]

6/2 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings – Did the NBA Finals affect Thursday’s show?

June 3, 2016

This week’s WWE Smackdown held up against Game 1 of the NBA Finals, but remained in the doldrums overall. WWE Smackdown TV Ratings Tracking June 2: WWE Smackdown scored a 1.59 rating Thursday night on USA […]

5/30 Raw TV Quarter-Hour Ratings Report – Cena-Styles saves the show & third hour, Minute-by-Minute on key segments, surprises

June 3, 2016

The quarter-hour ratings for Monday’s Memorial Day Raw confirm that John Cena’s return segment and A.J. Styles’s confrontation saved the show and the third hour from historical low points. The top-of-the-third-hour with Cena’s return and A.J. […]

5/26 Smackdown TV Ratings – Smackdown takes a big hit on Thursday night

May 27, 2016

This week’s WWE Smackdown continued to slump in the soon-to-be-departing Thursday night timeslot on USA Network. The overall rating was down, but the key demographics were pitiful… WWE Smackdown Ratings Tracking May 26: Smackdown after Extreme […]

5/19 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings – how did the pre-Extreme Rules episode fare?

May 20, 2016

This week’s Smackdown TV rating inched up from last week, but the show remains stuck at the bottom rung. WWE Smackdown Ratings Tracking May 19: Smackdown scored a 1.62 rating leading into Extreme Rules, slightly up […]

5/12 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings – audience dips from last week

May 13, 2016

This week’s WWE Smackdown slid to a near-year-low against the NBA Playoffs. WWE Smackdown TV Ratings Tracking May 12: Thursday’s Smackdown scored a 1.59 TV rating on USA Network, down from a 1.65 rating last week. […]

5/5 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings – rebound from last week, but Bottom 3 rank

May 6, 2016

This week’s WWE Smackdown got back some of last week’s TV viewers, but still ranked in the Bottom 3 this year. WWE Smackdown TV Ratings Tracking May 5: Thursday’s Smackdown scored a 1.65 TV rating on […]

4/28 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings – SD fall to year-lows across the board

April 29, 2016

This week’s WWE Smackdown TV ratings fell hard a few days before the Payback PPV. Nothing was advertised in-advance and the episode went against the NFL Draft. WWE Smackdown TV Ratings Tracking April 28: Smackdown leading […]

4/21 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings – soft increase for London show

April 22, 2016

This week’s WWE Smackdown inched up in TV ratings and viewership, but remained below the First Quarter 2016 average. WWE Smackdown TV Ratings Tracking April 21: Thursday’s Smackdown scored a 1.71 TV rating on USA Network, […]

4/7 WWE Smackdown TV Ratings – how did the post-WM32 edition fare vs. American Idol finale?

April 8, 2016

The combination of the first Smackdown after WrestleMania and Thursday’s show going against the series finale of “American Idol” produced a one-tenth uptick in Smackdown TV ratings. WWE Smackdown Ratings Tracking April 7: Post-WM32 Smackdown scored […]

3/10 WWE Smackdown Ratings – Hard fall to 2016 low-point

March 11, 2016

Thursday’s Smackdown fell to the lowest TV rating of the year, while also drawing the fewest viewers of the year. WWE Smackdown Ratings Tracking 2016 March 10: Smackdown scored a 1.64 rating, down seven percent from […]

SEC Filing – Why TV Ratings still matter & why WWE pushes social media

March 4, 2016

The latest in our series reviewing information from WWE’s annual shareholders meeting announcement … – Over the past year, WWE has alternated between acknowledging TV ratings struggles and downplaying TV ratings as part of a “broader ecosystem” of content […]

2/18 Smackdown TV Ratings – Not much of a Brock Pop

February 19, 2016

WWE saved Brock Lesnar’s WWE TV appearance this week for the final Smackdown leading into Fast Lane. But, it did not make much of a difference in TV ratings. WWE Smackdown TV Ratings Tracking February […]

WWE CONFERENCE CALL – McMahon addresses sagging TV ratings & WWE’s standing with NBCU; will NXT land on U.S. TV?

February 11, 2016

During Thursday’s quarterly conference call with investors, WWE CEO Vince McMahon was asked to address the yearly decline in TV ratings for top programming Raw and Smackdown in 2015. McMahon said, “Ours are down, but not as […]

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