{"id":128003,"date":"2021-10-06T01:02:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=128003"},"modified":"2021-10-06T01:08:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:08:32","slug":"wwe-raw-draws-improved-ratings-and-highest-viewership-for-wwe-draft-episode-last-night-wwe-touts-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/06\/wwe-raw-draws-improved-ratings-and-highest-viewership-for-wwe-draft-episode-last-night-wwe-touts-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Raw draws improved ratings and highest viewership for WWE Draft episode last night, WWE touts increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2576201609\" 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>This week&#8217;s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw drew a stronger than usual Nielsen rating of 1.35, buoyed by the WWE Draft being incorporated into the show along with a Charlotte vs. Bianca Belair first-ever singles match. The rating is above the ten-week rolling average of 1.32 and even more above the September average of 1.25. It also drew a 0.52 rating in the 18-49 demographic, tied for the best in the last five weeks, although below pre-Monday Night Football weeks in August, which averaged 0.55 and peaked at 0.64.<\/p>\n<p>Raw averaged 1.858 million viewers including a first-hour viewership average of nearly 2 million &#8211; 1.949. That&#8217;s the first viewership average above 1.9 million since Sept. 6. The first-to-third hour dropoff was more steep than average, with 228,000 fewer viewers on average watching the third hour compared to the first. The average this year is 151,000.<\/p>\n<p>WWE issued a rare ratings-related press release to PWTorch earlier today touting the viewership increase of 9 percent form last week and an 18-49 demo rating increase of 10 percent from last week.<\/p>\n<p>Raw finished in positions 6, 7, and 8 among all cable shows on Monday night in the 18-49 demographic, behind only ESPN&#8217;s Monday Night Football game and related shows before and after. The NFL game drew an average of 12.319 million viewers, more than six times the average viewership of Raw.<\/p>\n<p>In the male 18-49 demographic, Raw drew 0.66, the best rating since the Aug. 30 episode also drew that rating.<\/p>\n<p>Next week&#8217;s episode will feature King of the Ring and Queen&#8217;s Crown tournament matches.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago this week, Raw drew a 1.20 rating in ThunderDome. The WWE Draft last year took place on the second episode of October and drew a 1.30 rating, so this year&#8217;s Draft in front of a live audience in Nashville, Tenn. drew a bigger rating by 0.05.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2524919892\"><div id=\"pwtor-4241777226\"><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>This week&#8217;s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw drew a stronger than usual Nielsen rating of 1.35, buoyed by the WWE Draft being incorporated into the show along with a Charlotte vs. Bianca Belair first-ever <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/06\/wwe-raw-draws-improved-ratings-and-highest-viewership-for-wwe-draft-episode-last-night-wwe-touts-increase\/\" title=\"WWE Raw draws improved ratings and highest viewership for WWE Draft episode last night, WWE touts increase\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128004,"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-128003","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\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-06-at-12.52.11-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128003","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=128003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128008,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128003\/revisions\/128008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}