{"id":4824,"date":"2015-12-04T15:42:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T21:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2015-12-08T22:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T04:27:46","slug":"4824","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/12\/04\/4824\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of 11\/23 TV &#038; DVR Viewers &#8211; post-WM Raw outdraws entire week of wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1448189370\" 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>The Week of November 23 was not a good week for pro wrestling. Nearly one million fewer viewers watching the main shows of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, TNA Impact, and ROH TV than the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>This was mainly due to Smackdown&#8217;s audience falling off the table on Thanksgiving and poor Raw viewership, especially in the third hour.<\/p>\n<p>Notable for the Nov. 23 Raw &#8211; the episode following Survivor Series &#8211; there was not much of a DVR bump to make up for the least-watched Raw in about 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>Even the third hour of Raw, which only drew 2.712 million live viewers, drew fewer DVR views than the previous week&#8217;s third hour. More to Follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall Viewership &#8211; WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, TNA Impact, ROH TV (Week of Nov. 23)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Live Viewership Pie: 5.067 million live viewers, down nearly one million from 5.915 million live viewers last week.<\/p>\n<p>To put this in perspective, the post-WrestleMania Raw earlier this year drew 5.363 million viewers. (It was also the last time Raw topped a 3.0 rating.) That episode alone topped the entire week of pro wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Live &amp; DVR Pie: 5.732 million total viewers, down from 6.624 million total viewers last week.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1805196457\" 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>***<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>WWE Raw<\/strong> (Monday, November 23):\u00a0Raw averaged 2.964 million live viewers, down about 320,000 viewers from\u00a03.292 million live viewers\u00a0leading into Survivor Series.<\/p>\n<p>Live+DVR viewership was 3.311 million viewers, down about 350,000 viewers from 3.667 million total viewers last week.<\/p>\n<p>There just was not a significant bump in viewership to make up for the poor live viewing, including in the third hour&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raw First Hour: 3.190 million live viewers + 302,000 DVR viewers for 3.492 million total<\/li>\n<li>Raw Second Hour: 2.990 million live + 333,000 DVR viewers for 3.323 million total<\/li>\n<li>Raw Third Hour: 2.712 million live + <strong>406,000 DVR viewers<\/strong> for 3.118 million total<\/li>\n<li><em>Last Week&#8217;s Third Hour: 3.292 million live + <strong>416,000 DVR<\/strong> viewers for 3.463 million total<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>TNA Impact<\/strong> (Wednesday, Nov. 25): Impact drew 234,000 live viewers, up from 202,000 first-run viewers last week.<\/p>\n<p>However, DVR views was only 27,000, compared to 66,000 last week.<\/p>\n<p>Impact also\u00a0drew 76,000 replay\/West Coast viewers after the final ROH TV airing, which is about what the show drew last week.<\/p>\n<p>Add it up to <strong>337,000 total viewers<\/strong>, down from 346,000 total viewers last week.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-917465058\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>ROH TV<\/strong> (Wednesday, Nov. 25): The final episode on Destination America drew 141,000 viewers in the 11:00 p.m. EST timeslot after Impact,\u00a0up from 114,000 last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>WWE Smackdown<\/strong> (Thursday, Nov. 26): Smackdown drew 1.652 million viewers on Thanksgiving, down from 2.229 million live viewers\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n<p>Smackdown did not get a significant DVR bump to make up for such a big gap.\u00a0Smackdown added 291,000 DVR views, compared to 268,000 last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smackdown&#8217;s total audience was 1.943 million,<\/strong>\u00a0down about 500,000 viewers from last week&#8217;s total of 2.497 million.<\/p>\n<p><b>THIS WEEK&#8217;S VIEWERSHIP CHART BREAK DOWN&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/Nov23TV.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4825\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/Nov23TV-300x70.png\" alt=\"Nov23TV\" width=\"459\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/Nov23TV-300x70.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/Nov23TV-1024x238.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/Nov23TV.png 1594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-396822956\"><div id=\"pwtor-541357416\"><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>The Week of November 23 was not a good week for pro wrestling. 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