{"id":125639,"date":"2021-08-25T00:52:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T05:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=125639"},"modified":"2021-08-25T00:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T05:52:14","slug":"raw-viewership-increases-for-the-post-summerslam-episode-but-below-the-year-ago-number-key-metrics-and-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/08\/25\/raw-viewership-increases-for-the-post-summerslam-episode-but-below-the-year-ago-number-key-metrics-and-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw viewership increases for the post-Summerslam episode, but below the year-ago number, key metrics and perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3849882006\" 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>The post-Summerslam episode of WWE Monday Night Raw on USA Network (8\/23) drew a 1.43 rating, up from the 1.37 last week. It&#8217;s the fourth-highest rating of 2021. One year ago this week, Raw the day after Summerslam, in the midst of the pandemic, drew a 1.53 rating for the premiere episode of Raw in the ThunderDome.<\/p>\n<p>The ten-week rolling average for Raw is 1.30. One year ago, the ten-week rolling average was 1.27.<\/p>\n<p>In the adult 18-49 demographic, Raw drew a 0.64 rating, up from last week&#8217;s 0.55 and the first demo rating above 0.60 since April. Raw finished in positions 2, 3, and 4 in the 18-49 demo behind an NFL preseason game on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>In the male 18-49 demo, it drew a 0.84, up from last week&#8217;s 0.70. In the male 18-34 demo, it drew a 0.49, up from last week&#8217;s 0.40.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of viewership, it opened with 2.152 million viewers, the first viewership above 2 million since the Apr. 19 episode. It stayed above 2 million in the second hour with 2.094 million viewers before dropping to 1.956 in the third hour. The first-to-third hour dropoff was 196,000, higher than the yearly average of 151,000. The RKBro celebration was the main hook hyped throughout Raw to hold viewers&#8217; interest, as they didn&#8217;t announce a main event otherwise head of time (A.J. Styles vs. Matt Riddle ended up being the main event).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3062280476\"><div id=\"pwtor-4130108068\"><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>The post-Summerslam episode of WWE Monday Night Raw on USA Network (8\/23) drew a 1.43 rating, up from the 1.37 last week. It&#8217;s the fourth-highest rating of 2021. One year ago this week, Raw the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/08\/25\/raw-viewership-increases-for-the-post-summerslam-episode-but-below-the-year-ago-number-key-metrics-and-perspective\/\" title=\"Raw viewership increases for the post-Summerslam episode, but below the year-ago number, key metrics and perspective\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124709,"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-125639","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\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-10-at-11.25.05-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125639","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=125639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125640,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125639\/revisions\/125640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}