{"id":103364,"date":"2020-08-25T16:26:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=103364"},"modified":"2020-08-25T16:29:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T21:29:50","slug":"raw-rating-surges-day-after-summerslam-with-raw-debut-in-thunderdome-key-stats-and-metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/08\/25\/raw-rating-surges-day-after-summerslam-with-raw-debut-in-thunderdome-key-stats-and-metrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw rating surges day after Summerslam with Raw debut in Thunderdome, key stats and metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1428222981\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Last night&#8217;s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw on USA Network drew a 1.53 rating, up from 1.22 last week and the highest since March 16, just prior to the pandemic canceling all live events with fans. The first hour drew 2.140 million viewers; that&#8217;s the first hour of Raw to draw above 2 million viewers since June 22. Prior to that, it hadn&#8217;t topped 2 million since Apr. 6, where both the first and second hours of Raw topped 2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The second hour drew 2.045 million and the third hour drew 1.900 million. The first-to-third hour dropoff was 240,000. The average first-to-third hour dropoff since June 1 has been 190,000. The advertised main event was Seth Rollins &amp; Murphy vs. Rey Mysterio &amp; Dominik.<\/p>\n<p>Raw landed in positions no. 5, 7, and 9 in the 18-49 demographic rankings among all Monday night cable shows with ratings in that demo of 0.72, 0.66, and 0.62 respectively. An NBA playoff game on TNT topped the rankings with a 1.31 rating.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago this week Raw drew a 1.79 rating. The average dropoff in rating this year compared to last year so far this summer has been 0.47. The dropoff last night compared to the prior year was just 0.26.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-34 male demo was up from 0.34 last week to 0.40. The 18-49 male demo was up from 0.63 to 0.88.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago Raw drew a 2.02 rating. Three years ago Raw drew a 2.23 rating.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/08\/25\/thunderdome-debut-episode-of-smackdown-up-double-digit-percentage-in-viewership-key-stats-and-perspective\/\">Thunderdome debut episode of Smackdown up double-digit percentage in viewership, key stats and perspective<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1459116492\"><div id=\"pwtor-2838082512\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Last night&#8217;s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw on USA Network drew a 1.53 rating, up from 1.22 last week and the highest since March 16, just prior to the pandemic canceling all live events <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/08\/25\/raw-rating-surges-day-after-summerslam-with-raw-debut-in-thunderdome-key-stats-and-metrics\/\" title=\"Raw rating surges day after Summerslam with Raw debut in Thunderdome, key stats and metrics\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2020\/08\/RawThunderdome2020_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103368,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103364\/revisions\/103368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}