{"id":18237,"date":"2016-05-03T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=18237"},"modified":"2016-05-04T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T02:20:10","slug":"52-raw-tv-ratings-post-payback-episode-fare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/05\/03\/52-raw-tv-ratings-post-payback-episode-fare\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/2 Raw TV Ratings &#8211; how did the post-Payback episode fare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1775552285\" 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 WWE Raw following the Payback PPV reversed the downward trend since WrestleMania.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WWE Raw TV Ratings Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 2:\u00a0<\/strong>WWE Raw scored a 2.35 rating the night after Payback, up from a 2.20 rating last week.<\/p>\n<p>To put the number\u00a0in perspective, the\u00a0rating was well below the 2016 average of a 2.54 rating. Also, the show did slightly better than the taped U.K. Raw on April 18.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Raw&#8217;s three hours averaged 3.432 million viewers, up 10 percent (about 300,000 viewers) from last week.\u00a0Hourly Break Down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First Hour: 3.458 million viewers for immediate PPV fall-out<\/li>\n<li>Second Hour: 3.457 million viewers<\/li>\n<li>Third Hour: 3.383 million viewers. A decline of only two percent is a small victory for Raw&#8217;s third hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; DEMOGRAPHICS: Raw improved one-tenth of a rating in adults 18-49 and males 18-34 compared to last week&#8217;s year-low levels. The improvement was more pronounced in males 18-49, surpassing U.K. Raw from two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Analysis:\u00a0<\/strong>It&#8217;s an uptick, which is good. But, it&#8217;s still in that historical low territory.\u00a0It will be interesting to see\u00a0how the next two Raws fare without a PPV to follow up on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-602252990\"><div id=\"pwtor-1091856047\"><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 WWE Raw following the Payback PPV reversed the downward trend since WrestleMania. WWE Raw TV Ratings Tracking May 2:\u00a0WWE Raw scored a 2.35 rating the night after Payback, up from a 2.20 rating last <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/05\/03\/52-raw-tv-ratings-post-payback-episode-fare\/\" title=\"5\/2 Raw TV Ratings &#8211; how did the post-Payback episode fare?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1567,"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":[3],"tags":[2545,491,71,2111,112],"class_list":["post-18237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_wwe","tag-payback-2016","tag-raw-tv-ratings","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-payback","tag-wwe-raw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Rawlogo_3x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18238,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237\/revisions\/18238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}