{"id":112686,"date":"2021-02-02T18:16:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=112686"},"modified":"2021-02-02T22:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T04:52:47","slug":"wwe-raw-rating-and-viewership-patters-night-after-royal-rumble-key-metrics-compared-to-past-years-and-special-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/02\/02\/wwe-raw-rating-and-viewership-patters-night-after-royal-rumble-key-metrics-compared-to-past-years-and-special-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Raw rating and viewership patterns night after Royal Rumble, key metrics compared to past years and special episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1131845044\" 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 &#8211; the &#8220;Day After Royal Rumble&#8221; episode &#8211; drew a 1.34 rating, up from last week&#8217;s 1.27 rating, but below the Raw &#8220;Legends&#8221; special five weeks ago that drew a 1.46. This week&#8217;s episode is the third time it drew better than 1.30 since Nov. 23, and is the third-highest since the Aug. 31 episode drew a 1.35.<\/p>\n<p>In the 18-49 demographic, Raw drew a 0.58 rating (0.61, 0.57, 0.55 for each hour). All three hours of Raw topped all cable shows in that key demo on Monday night. Several news\/politics shows drew more viewers, with &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; on MSNBC drawing 3.7 million total viewers, topping &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; which draw nearly 3.6 million on Fox News, &#8220;Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell&#8221; on MSNBC which drew 3.1 million, and &#8220;Cuomo Prime Time&#8221; which drew nearly 2.2 million on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The first-to-third hour dropoff was 170,000, one of the smaller recent dropoffs. The average this year is 241,000. Raw headlined with Edge vs. Randy Orton.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, Raw popped a 1.92 rating for the &#8220;Day After Royal Rumble&#8221; episode, up from the 1.66 the week before. Raw&#8217;s jump this year was much smaller &#8211; 0.07 this year compared t0 0.26 last year. Two years ago it popped a 1.92 rating, up from 1.73 the week before, for an increase of 0.19.<\/p>\n<p>The ten-week rolling average rating for Raw is 1.256. One year ago this week, the ten-week rolling average was 1.575.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-371780523\"><div id=\"pwtor-1377427600\"><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 &#8211; the &#8220;Day After Royal Rumble&#8221; episode &#8211; drew a 1.34 rating, up from last week&#8217;s 1.27 rating, but below the Raw &#8220;Legends&#8221; special <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/02\/02\/wwe-raw-rating-and-viewership-patters-night-after-royal-rumble-key-metrics-compared-to-past-years-and-special-episode\/\" title=\"WWE Raw rating and viewership patterns night after Royal Rumble, key metrics compared to past years and special episode\">[&#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-112686","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\/112686","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=112686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112706,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112686\/revisions\/112706"}],"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=112686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}