{"id":67269,"date":"2018-10-09T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=67269"},"modified":"2018-10-09T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:02:08","slug":"raw-ratings-remain-at-historic-lows-with-significant-drop-off-from-recent-years-for-third-straight-week-still-among-top-viewed-cable-shows-monday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/10\/09\/raw-ratings-remain-at-historic-lows-with-significant-drop-off-from-recent-years-for-third-straight-week-still-among-top-viewed-cable-shows-monday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw Ratings remain at historic lows with significant drop-off from recent years for third straight week, still among top viewed cable shows Monday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2998760744\" 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 Oct. 8 episode of WWE Monday Night Raw drew a 1.67 rating among live and same-night-DVR viewers, according to our industry TV ratings source, up from the 1.63, and 1.64 the prior two weeks, but still at historic low levels now three weeks in a row. Our chart shows September&#8217;s average was 1.81, compared to a 1.65 average to start October. August&#8217;s average was 2.01.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago this week, Raw drew a 1.97 rating and two years ago it drew a 1.93 rating, so this is a sharp drop-off three weeks in a row from recent prior levels in the same part of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The hourly viewership dropped as the show progressed, with the first hour drawing 2.533 million viewers, then 2.388 for the second hour, and 2.200 million in the third hour. That&#8217;s a first-to-third hour drop-off of 333,000. The average this year is 309,000, so that&#8217;s pretty typical.<\/p>\n<p>WWE Raw held positions 5, 6, and 8 in the rankings among the coveted 18-49 demographic, <a href=\"https:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/daily-ratings\/monday-cable-ratings-oct-8-2018\/\">reports TVByTheNumbers<\/a>, with only NFL and MLB programming finishing ahead of it. In total viewers, Monday Night Football drew 10,506,000 total viewers compared to Raw&#8217;s peak hour of 2,533,000 viewers, so roughly a four-to-one ratio. It drew to a five-to-one radio by hour three of Raw.<\/p>\n<p>Eight shows had more total viewers than Raw.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT LAST WEEK&#8217;S RATINGS REPORT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/10\/02\/raw-rating-report-a-new-low-point-for-raw-sharp-declines-from-last-two-years-sharp-drop-off-for-third-hour-more-key-metrics\/\">Raw Rating Report: A new low point for Raw, sharp declines from last two years, sharp drop-off for third hour, more key metrics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2308985450\"><div id=\"pwtor-3379999181\"><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 Oct. 8 episode of WWE Monday Night Raw drew a 1.67 rating among live and same-night-DVR viewers, according to our industry TV ratings source, up from the 1.63, and 1.64 the prior two weeks, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/10\/09\/raw-ratings-remain-at-historic-lows-with-significant-drop-off-from-recent-years-for-third-straight-week-still-among-top-viewed-cable-shows-monday-night\/\" title=\"Raw Ratings remain at historic lows with significant drop-off from recent years for third straight week, still among top viewed cable shows Monday night\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40225,"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-67269","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\/2017\/03\/RawSet2017_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67269","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=67269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67270,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67269\/revisions\/67270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}