{"id":176608,"date":"2024-04-09T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=176608"},"modified":"2024-04-09T17:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T22:30:38","slug":"wwe-raw-ratings-report-4-8-cody-celebration-and-rock-cody-exchange-draws-largest-first-hour-viewership-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2024\/04\/09\/wwe-raw-ratings-report-4-8-cody-celebration-and-rock-cody-exchange-draws-largest-first-hour-viewership-in-years\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Raw Ratings Report (4\/8): Cody celebration and Rock-Cody exchange draws largest first hour viewership in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-732338462\" 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 Raw on USA Network averaged 2.361 million viewers, the highest viewership in years. Last year&#8217;s high was 2.44 million on Jan. 23. Last year&#8217;s Raw After WrestleMania drew 2.260 million.<\/p>\n<p>The average this year heading into this week was 1.719 million.<\/p>\n<p>The first hour, which didn&#8217;t cut to a commercial until late, featuring Cody Rhodes&#8217;s celebration with Triple H and a long segment with Rock and Cody drew 2.860 million viewers. The highest viewership last year for the first hour of Raw was 2.635 million the day after the Royal Rumble.<\/p>\n<p>Hourly Numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2.860 million<\/li>\n<li>2.304 million<\/li>\n<li>1.921 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the 18-49 demo, it drew a 0.83 rating, up from 0.59 last week. The first 14 weeks of the year leading into this week averaged 0.56.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-49 male demo jumped to a 1.22 rating, up from 0.80. That demo has only topped 1.00 once in the last two years, on Apr. 3 last year, the Raw After WrestleMania edition.<\/p>\n<p>The more narrow, younger demo of 18-34 males drew a 0.81 rating, up from 0.48 last week, The average this year heading into this week was 0.53.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED NEXT:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2024\/04\/05\/aew-dynamite-ratings-report-4-3-among-lowest-viewership-and-demo-rating-again-this-week-comparison-to-recent-years-and-nxt\/\">AEW Dynamite Ratings Report (4\/3): Among lowest viewership and demo rating again this week, comparison to recent years and NXT<\/a><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1271214730\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>OR CHECK THIS OUT AT PROWRESTLING.NET:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2024\/04\/08\/wwe-raw-results-4-8-powells-live-review-of-the-night-after-wrestlemania-xl-edition\/\">WWE Raw results (4\/8): Powell\u2019s live review of the night after WrestleMania XL edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-139395042\"><div id=\"pwtor-3359991724\"><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 Raw on USA Network averaged 2.361 million viewers, the highest viewership in years. Last year&#8217;s high was 2.44 million on Jan. 23. Last year&#8217;s Raw After WrestleMania drew 2.260 million. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2024\/04\/09\/wwe-raw-ratings-report-4-8-cody-celebration-and-rock-cody-exchange-draws-largest-first-hour-viewership-in-years\/\" title=\"WWE Raw Ratings Report (4\/8): Cody celebration and Rock-Cody exchange draws largest first hour viewership in years\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176609,"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":[2,6916,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-ratings","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-09-at-5.29.37\u202fPM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608","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=176608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176610,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608\/revisions\/176610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}