{"id":30616,"date":"2016-08-30T13:43:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=30616"},"modified":"2016-08-30T15:49:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:49:29","slug":"828-ballers-tv-viewership-23-percent-series-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/08\/30\/828-ballers-tv-viewership-23-percent-series-low\/","title":{"rendered":"8\/28 &#8220;Ballers&#8221; TV viewership down 23 percent to series low"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2143291703\" 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>&#8220;The Rock&#8221; Dwayne Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;Ballers&#8221; HBO\u00a0show gained 100,000 viewers last week against Summerslam. However, the latest episode fell 300,000 viewers against the VMAs, capturing Ballers&#8217;s TV audience being more of a mainstream TV fanbase than a wrestling audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ballers Viewership Tracking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>August 28:\u00a0<\/strong>Week 7\u00a0of &#8220;Ballers&#8221; drew 1.014 million viewers, <a href=\"http:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/2016\/08\/30\/sunday-cable-ratings-vmas-tumble-from-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports TVBytheNumbers.com<\/a>, down more than 300,000 viewers (23 percent) from last week&#8217;s audience.<\/p>\n<p>It was a season and series low for Ballers on a competitive Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ballers has now averaged 1.260 million viewers in Season 2, down 28 percent from the first seven weeks of Season 1 last summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Season 2 Viewership Trend<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>July 17: 1.585 million first-run viewers<\/li>\n<li>July 24: 1.278 million<\/li>\n<li>July 31: 1.266 million<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 7: 1.146 million<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 14: 1.210 million<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 21: 1.324 million<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 28: 1.014 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3034773691\"><div id=\"pwtor-321543069\"><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>&#8220;The Rock&#8221; Dwayne Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;Ballers&#8221; HBO\u00a0show gained 100,000 viewers last week against Summerslam. However, the latest episode fell 300,000 viewers against the VMAs, capturing Ballers&#8217;s TV audience being more of a mainstream TV fanbase than <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/08\/30\/828-ballers-tv-viewership-23-percent-series-low\/\" title=\"8\/28 &#8220;Ballers&#8221; TV viewership down 23 percent to series low\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9114,"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":[7],"tags":[1370,340,3461,294,528],"class_list":["post-30616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_etc","tag-ballers","tag-hbo","tag-hbo-ballers","tag-the-rock","tag-the-rock-dwayne-johnson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/01\/RockTheTB_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30616","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=30616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30617,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30616\/revisions\/30617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}