{"id":176984,"date":"2024-04-17T02:49:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T07:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=176984"},"modified":"2024-04-17T02:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T07:49:06","slug":"wwe-raw-ratings-report-4-15-viewership-drops-after-last-weeks-raw-after-mania-leap-key-demo-data-year-ago-comparisons-first-to-third-hour-dropoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2024\/04\/17\/wwe-raw-ratings-report-4-15-viewership-drops-after-last-weeks-raw-after-mania-leap-key-demo-data-year-ago-comparisons-first-to-third-hour-dropoff\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Raw Ratings Report (4\/15): Viewership drops after last week&#8217;s Raw After Mania leap, key demo data, year-ago comparisons, first-to-third hour dropoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2358082212\" 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>Monday&#8217;s (4\/15) episode of WWE Raw on USA Network averaged 1.807 million viewers, down from 2.361 million last week for the &#8220;Raw After Mania&#8221; episode, but above the prior first 14 weeks of 2024, which averaged 1.719 million.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago this week, Raw averaged 1.815 million, just 8,000 above this week&#8217;s episode.<\/p>\n<p>The hourly viewership was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Hour: 1.929 million<\/li>\n<li>2nd Hour: 1.815 million<\/li>\n<li>3rd Hour: 1.676 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first-to-third hour dropoff was 253,000, higher than the first 14 weeks of the year, which averaged 170,000. We are excluding last week&#8217;s dropoff which was a whopping 939,000 since the first hour drew a huge 2.860 million first hour rating.<\/p>\n<p>The third hour featured a Cody Rhodes in-promo, Jey Uso vs. Finn Balor, and the heavily-hyped Sami Zayn vs. Chad Gable match for the Intercontinental Title.<\/p>\n<p>In the key 18-49 demo, it drew a 0.61 rating. The first 14 weeks of the year averaged 0.56. One year ago this week, it drew a 0.58 rating.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1128498378\"><div id=\"pwtor-757470793\"><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>Monday&#8217;s (4\/15) episode of WWE Raw on USA Network averaged 1.807 million viewers, down from 2.361 million last week for the &#8220;Raw After Mania&#8221; episode, but above the prior first 14 weeks of 2024, which <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2024\/04\/17\/wwe-raw-ratings-report-4-15-viewership-drops-after-last-weeks-raw-after-mania-leap-key-demo-data-year-ago-comparisons-first-to-third-hour-dropoff\/\" title=\"WWE Raw Ratings Report (4\/15): Viewership drops after last week&#8217;s Raw After Mania leap, key demo data, year-ago comparisons, first-to-third hour dropoff\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176985,"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-176984","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-2024-04-17-at-2.33.29-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176984","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=176984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176986,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176984\/revisions\/176986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}