{"id":60303,"date":"2018-05-22T18:22:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T23:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=60303"},"modified":"2018-05-22T19:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T00:26:02","slug":"raw-ratings-viewership-down-third-hour-dropoff-highest-in-last-month-key-metrics-including-versus-nba-and-nhl-cable-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/05\/22\/raw-ratings-viewership-down-third-hour-dropoff-highest-in-last-month-key-metrics-including-versus-nba-and-nhl-cable-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw Ratings: Viewership down, third hour dropoff highest in last month, key metrics including versus NBA and NHL, cable ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3042460275\" 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>Last night&#8217;s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw drew a 1.86 rating, down from last week&#8217;s 1.92. The monthly average so far is 1.91. The ten-week rolling average is 2.19. The 2018 average is now 2.21.<\/p>\n<p>The hourly viewership was: 2.792, 2.767, and 2.447. That dropoff of 345,000 is a little below the 402,000 average dropoff for the year, but the biggest in the last four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Raw drew a 1.89 rating one year ago, 2.29 two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Raw dropped in the 18-49 key demo to no. 4, 5, and 6 (for each hour) in the cable rankings for Monday night, behind the NBA Playoffs (Cavs vs. Celtics) on ESPN, SportsCenter following the game on ESPN, and &#8220;Love and Hip Hop Atlanta&#8221; on VH1.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, while Raw&#8217;s best hour drew 2.792 million total viewers, the NBA Conference Finals drew 7.775 million and the NHL Conference Finals drew 2.112 million.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT THIS RECENT REPORT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/05\/22\/wwes-msg-line-up-updated-big-cass-pulled-from-joe-match-tonight-hardy-vs-bryan-on-smackdown-total-bellas-viewership-down\/\">WWE\u2019s MSG line-up updated, Big Cass pulled from Joe match tonight, Hardy vs. Bryan on Smackdown, Total Bellas viewership down<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1387791331\"><div id=\"pwtor-742018576\"><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>Last night&#8217;s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw drew a 1.86 rating, down from last week&#8217;s 1.92. The monthly average so far is 1.91. The ten-week rolling average is 2.19. The 2018 average is now <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/05\/22\/raw-ratings-viewership-down-third-hour-dropoff-highest-in-last-month-key-metrics-including-versus-nba-and-nhl-cable-ranking\/\" title=\"Raw Ratings: Viewership down, third hour dropoff highest in last month, key metrics including versus NBA and NHL, cable ranking\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56429,"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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/03\/RawStage2018_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60303","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60314,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60303\/revisions\/60314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}