{"id":74666,"date":"2019-02-05T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=74666"},"modified":"2019-02-05T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:28:08","slug":"wwe-raw-tops-cable-ratings-monday-night-in-total-viewers-and-in-key-adult-demographic-hourly-drop-below-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/02\/05\/wwe-raw-tops-cable-ratings-monday-night-in-total-viewers-and-in-key-adult-demographic-hourly-drop-below-average\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Raw tops cable ratings Monday night in total viewers and in key adult demographic, hourly drop below average"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3836662384\" 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 Monday, Feb. 4 edition of WWE Monday Night Raw on USA Network drew a 1.78 rating, down from last week&#8217;s post-Rumble edition of Raw which drew a 1.92 rating but above the two-weeks-ago rating of 1.73.<\/p>\n<p>The first hour draw 2.656 million viewers, this second hour a slight drop to 2.552 million viewers, and then the now-typical big third hour drop to 2.321. That&#8217;s a first-to-third hour rating drop of 335,000. The average drop-off this year is 395,000.<\/p>\n<p>The third hour closed with the Kurt Angle &amp; Braun Strowman vs. Baron Corbin &amp; Drew McIntyre main event, plus &#8220;A Moment of Bliss,&#8221; EC3 vs. Dean Ambrose, and Lio Rush vs. Bobby Lashley.<\/p>\n<p>Each of Raw&#8217;s three hours were the top rated shows on cable Monday night with ratings in the key 18-49 adult demographic of 0.9, 0.9, and 0.8. Raw&#8217;s first two hours were first in total viewers, edging out &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; on MSNBC with a substitute host, which came in third with 2.508 million viewers total.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/01\/29\/raw-ratings-uptick-for-the-episode-the-day-after-royal-rumble-comparison-to-last-two-years-hourly-drop-off-monday-ranking-among-all-shows\/\">Raw Ratings uptick for the episode the day after Royal Rumble, comparison to last two years, hourly drop-off, Monday ranking among all shows<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-966765935\"><div id=\"pwtor-4196188247\"><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 Monday, Feb. 4 edition of WWE Monday Night Raw on USA Network drew a 1.78 rating, down from last week&#8217;s post-Rumble edition of Raw which drew a 1.92 rating but above the two-weeks-ago rating <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/02\/05\/wwe-raw-tops-cable-ratings-monday-night-in-total-viewers-and-in-key-adult-demographic-hourly-drop-below-average\/\" title=\"WWE Raw tops cable ratings Monday night in total viewers and in key adult demographic, hourly drop below average\">[&#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-74666","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\/74666","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=74666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74667,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74666\/revisions\/74667"}],"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=74666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}