{"id":27121,"date":"2016-07-26T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T18:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=27121"},"modified":"2016-07-26T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T18:31:37","slug":"wwe-draft-week-final-tv-viewership-raw-live-sddraft-compare-dvr-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/26\/wwe-draft-week-final-tv-viewership-raw-live-sddraft-compare-dvr-viewing\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Draft Week Final TV Viewership &#8211; how did Raw &#038; Live SD\/Draft compare with DVR viewing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-578132822\" 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><strong>By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WWE Draft Week was about as even as it gets in terms of viewing audiences for the July 18 Raw and the July 19 live\u00a0Smackdown\/WWE Draft back-to-back nights on USA Network.<\/p>\n<p>Raw scored a 2.22 TV rating to Smackdown&#8217;s 2.20 rating. However,\u00a0the Draft\/Smackdown drew more viewers and held off Raw when accounting for DVR viewership.<\/p>\n<p>The Draft\/Smackdown total viewing audience was 3.416 million viewers (live + DVR), compared to Raw&#8217;s total audience of 3.401 million viewers (average of all three hours + average DVR&#8217;ing per hour).<\/p>\n<p>Raw was hurt by drawing the fewest DVR viewers of the year. Perhaps because of a second live show during the week the night after Raw, many viewers choose not to watch Raw after it aired.<\/p>\n<p>Raw&#8217;s three hours averaged 268,333 DVR viewers, down\u00a031 percent from the July 11 Raw&#8217;s DVR audience. It was the first time this year that Raw averaged fewer than 300,000 DVR viewers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Meanwhile, the Draft\/Smackdown drew 246,000 DVR viewers, which was slightly above-average.<\/p>\n<p>The final Thursday night airing on July 14 drew a huge number of 345,000 DVR viewers seemingly out of nowhere. 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