{"id":19730,"date":"2016-05-17T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=19730"},"modified":"2016-05-17T21:43:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T02:43:27","slug":"516-raw-tv-ratings-raw-steady-vs-game-1-nba-wcf-third-hour-smallest-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/05\/17\/516-raw-tv-ratings-raw-steady-vs-game-1-nba-wcf-third-hour-smallest-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/16 Raw TV Ratings &#8211; Raw steady vs. Game 1 of NBA WCF; third hour smallest of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3679632870\" 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 Raw\u00a0was even with last week&#8217;s TV rating.\u00a0Considering it was a pre-PPV reinforcement episode, and Raw was against Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference Finals and an overtime NHL Playoffs game, it counts as a small victory in this era of historically low TV ratings. However, the concern is the third hour drew the smallest audience of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WWE Raw TV Ratings Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 16:\u00a0<\/strong>Raw leading into Extreme Rules scored a 2.27 TV rating, virtually even with a 2.26 rating last week.<\/p>\n<p>In the demographic ratings, Raw actually increased one-tenth in males 18-34 and slightly increased in males 18-49.<\/p>\n<p>However, adults 18-49 fell to the lowest rating of the year, even lower than the pre-Payback episode three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Raw&#8217;s three hours averaged 3.190 million viewers, down 1.5 percent from last week&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n<p>The first two hours were virtually even with last week&#8217;s show. However, the third hour fell by 12.4 percent after Raw\u00a0came to its natural conclusion at the top of the third hour.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First Hour: 3.376 million viewers<\/li>\n<li>Second Hour: 3.302 million viewers<\/li>\n<li>Third Hour: 2.894 million viewers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The third hour audience was the smallest of the year and smallest since December 2015. WWE\u00a0put their main event angle at the\u00a0end of the second hour\/start of the third hour, trying to combat the inevitable third hour decline leading into Extreme Rules.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3775812022\" 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>There was also the factor of the Warriors-Thunder NBA Playoffs game drawing 8.7 million viewers on TNT, more than doubling Raw&#8217;s audience.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3746615232\"><div id=\"pwtor-1086732954\"><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 Raw\u00a0was even with last week&#8217;s TV rating.\u00a0Considering it was a pre-PPV reinforcement episode, and Raw was against Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference Finals and an overtime NHL Playoffs game, it counts <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/05\/17\/516-raw-tv-ratings-raw-steady-vs-game-1-nba-wcf-third-hour-smallest-2016\/\" title=\"5\/16 Raw TV Ratings &#8211; Raw steady vs. Game 1 of NBA WCF; third hour smallest of 2016\">[&#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":[2720,96,491,1613,112],"class_list":["post-19730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_wwe","tag-greensboro-raw","tag-raw","tag-raw-tv-ratings","tag-wwe-ratings","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\/19730","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=19730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19741,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730\/revisions\/19741"}],"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=19730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}