{"id":29333,"date":"2016-08-17T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=29333"},"modified":"2016-08-17T13:19:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T18:19:16","slug":"815-raw-tv-viewership-raw-nearly-identical-last-week-vs-olympics-third-hour-drags-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/08\/17\/815-raw-tv-viewership-raw-nearly-identical-last-week-vs-olympics-third-hour-drags-show\/","title":{"rendered":"8\/15 Raw TV Ratings are in &#8211; Week 2 vs. Olympics improves, third hour drags down show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-535877719\" 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>WWE Raw TV Ratings Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>August 15:\u00a0<\/strong>WWE Raw scored a 2.12 TV rating on Monday, improving on a big drop to a 2.05 rating last week.\u00a0Raw is still down from the 2.3-range of the first two weeks of the brand split.<\/p>\n<p>The second Raw against the Olympics also improved by about the same margin in the key demographic ratings.<\/p>\n<p>The overall rating, males 18-34, adults 18-49, and males 18-49 were still\u00a0down significantly from where Raw was at the beginning of the brand split, though. There is a likely rebound coming for post-Summerslam Raw next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Raw&#8217;s three hours drew nearly the exact same audience as last week&#8217;s show against Week 1 of the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Raw averaged 2.915 million viewers, essentially even with 2.911 million viewers last week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time in Raw&#8217;s modern-era that back-to-back shows\u00a0drew fewer than 3.0 million viewers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First Hour: 2.879 million viewers (down 71,000 vs. last week)<\/li>\n<li>Second Hour: 3.083 million viewers (up 109,000 vs. last week)<\/li>\n<li>Third Hour: 2.784 million viewers (down 25,000 vs. last week)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The second hour kept Raw at\/slightly above last week&#8217;s audience. But, the third hour really hurt the show this week.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3586408654\" 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>The third hour declined 9.7 percent from the second hour, which was the biggest drop in two months going back to Raw against the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it marks 22 consecutive weeks that Raw&#8217;s third hour viewership has declined from the second hour.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-940857166\"><div id=\"pwtor-1263258533\"><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>WWE Raw TV Ratings Tracking August 15:\u00a0WWE Raw scored a 2.12 TV rating on Monday, improving on a big drop to a 2.05 rating last week.\u00a0Raw is still down from the 2.3-range of the first <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/08\/17\/815-raw-tv-viewership-raw-nearly-identical-last-week-vs-olympics-third-hour-drags-show\/\" title=\"8\/15 Raw TV Ratings are in &#8211; Week 2 vs. Olympics improves, third hour drags down show\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24062,"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":[3673,3672,96,494,401,71,112],"class_list":["post-29333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_wwe","tag-august-15-raw","tag-corpus-raw","tag-raw","tag-raw-ratings","tag-tv-ratings","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-raw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rawlogo_3x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29333","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=29333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29395,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29333\/revisions\/29395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}